The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-14
lie TURR.

The warning factions in Chicago seem TO
have settled their troubles. and racing
will be conducted there this year on both
the Hawthorne and Harlem tracks Har-
lem will open after the fifteenth day meet
ing at Lakeside, which begins Thursday,
runs its course Harlem is expected to be
content with fifteen days, and on June ~
Hawthorne will open for like period,
racing being then continued alternately
through the summer. There will be no
racing at Washington Park, as the direo-
tors OF that institution seem determined
not TO again subject themselves to prose
cution by racing ia defiance of State law
on the tolerance OF city officials. as must
/ be the case in Chicago If there is to be any
/ racing at all.
Reports from San Francisco are to the
1 effect that a new race track viii be con-
4 structed there in st. Mateo county. Just
south OF the city. II will be built by an
/ organization TO he formed under the name
/ OF Western Turf association, with a capi-
tai stock of s250O00. The Ingleside people
are said 10 be behind the scheme.
! Jockey clubs on the Pacific coast are be-
| ginning to come to realization that six
I and half months OF continuous racing
/ dulls the taste of the public for the sport,
and they propose to shorten the season
/ next year. December l to april / is the
] time spoken of now. The season which
will soon end was unusually full of scandal
( even for San Francisco and the chickering's
of the rival tracks created a strong vein OF
/ opposition. 1t has come to be a matter OF
money rather than sentiment that has in-
duced the proposal to shorten the season
May Hampstead not only has the distinc-
ton of being unheaten. but is enc OF three
titles that has ever won a Derby in tails
country. The other winning hllies were
Modesty which landed the first great
American Derby at Washington Park IN
1854 for Ed Corrlgan, and Yo Tamhen
which took the Chicago Derby at Garfelt
Park few years later, May Hampstead
Is eligible for all the remaining Western
} events for her age and sex.
The stables Of A. II. and D. II. Morris
were much In evidence last week. Two biz
races in three days-Manuel in the Ken
lucky Derby and Filigrane in tho Metro
politan at Morris Park Saturdny--are
enough to satisfy even the biggest OF tn,
turfmen At the Memphis meeting the
Morris horses won less than $1,000 in th'
nineteen days.
Western critic puts Boney Boy, tn
Bradley horse. down for one of the phe
nomcnons. He Is said to be speedler thai
his sire, Bitten but can not go so far
He has Just entered his third year. yet h
has run In something like eighty races an
has been In the money over fifty times
Bradley gives him especial care, and II |
| predicted he will cut figure in the race
around Chicago.
During tho nineteen days racing al
Montgomery Park the New Memphi
Jockey club distributed $4,000. Ma
Hampstead alone took $500 in the Tennes
! see Oaks and Derby. her only two starts
: j. w, schorr & Co. were the next larges
t winners. with nearly $1,000 to their credN
. Abe Calm accumulated little less thar
$4,000. and Charlie Patterson took ava
J s3096 r. Burns led the Jockeys He ac
cepted an even 100 mounts and returne
practically one-third of them. His frs
! place were thirty-two, and he was outsid
the money but thirty-one times
4 Marcus DAILY was the most successit
0 owner at the Aqueduct meeting, The Mon
tana millionaire heads the list of winners
with a credit of $4,000. G. B. Morria come
second with $500, and M. f. Dwyer
horses carried away $500. Spencer wa
the winning Jockey accepting forty mount
and landing fifteen winners He was IN
placed in thirteen races. ID. Maher wo