The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-21
WITH TIE HARNEss HoRsEs.
Two $4,000 Races at Boston's Grand Cir
Quit Meeting This Week.

Boston will have the Grand Circuit horses
this week. and the signs point to one OF the
best meetings OF the year at the Readvllle
course. whore Star Pointer first set the mark
for harness horses below two minutes. Two
$4,000 races are to be trotted. The race for
the Massachusetts, Purse will bring together
such fast ones as ex-senator John McCarty's
black stallion Fred Kohl. 2:07x;J. Malcolm
Forbes's crack four-year-old. Peter the Great
2:12K: David Cahill's Charley Herr. 2:11k;
Warren stoner's serpol. 2;10; the unbeaten
| New England stallion Lecco. 2:12k; and the
Boston horse Greerbrino. 2:10x. II II o sin
| gular circumstance that nearly all OF the
prominent candidates for the big race are stall
| lions The contest 10 to be decided on We'd
| nesday.
The other $40. 900 race is the New England Flu
turity. for three-year-old trottsrs. on to-day's
card. Some OF the best colts in the country are
eligible to start. Ecstasy. Handspring. Idolita.
Mamie W. and XL's Brother among the num-
Der. In the trottinR free-for-all on Friday Tho
| Abbot and BinRen will meet again to renew
| their Glens Falls battle Metropolitan horse
| mon who saw the race up the State last week
say The Abbot should have won every heat.
"Geers made his drive in tho second round
too late to catch Bingen." said one OF them yes
terday The stallion went to the half in :o3
and had five or six lengths the best Of It at that
pOluJ CuHS HOne III l.OoIa, 30 CndU teoTS
had big contract on his hands when he set sail
with The Abbot on the upper turn and tried to
make mp all that ground id less than half a
mile. He Just missed doing It, though. Either
ono OF those horses is likely to beat the cham
pion race record Of Alix and Directum before
fall"
BY odds the most important meeting Of 1899
fbis nai,tm'te traek WIN De held at Goshen
worth $4,000 are to be distr ibuted. Tho asso-
citation has barred the hopples and by so doing
has secured an entry list which would do cred
IL to some OF the Grand Circuit tracks in the
character Of the horses engaged. For nearly
etrongholds for horse racing. but it is doubt
full whether Orange county was ever before so
now over the duel between John r. Gentry.
2:OOh. and Joe Patehen, 2:0lh. The two stall
the turf. and this is to be their first meeting
on S,c small s pnE While Gentry beat the big
'' se last SHfs not set
shown that he can do the trick on a half-mi
Is Gentry's home track the officials are treat:
guest Presdent 4 B. HOOK e gave en- him l' the
best box stall on the grounds. and had his
content with this he instructed the painters to
iIolEIowbins inserlRtiOn: Track record a;oe. BY
II thought i best to cover that up with
white paint before the race" said President
Hook. for there is no telling what the track
record will be or who will hold it after Wednes-
In order that the visiting horse may have the
iairest chance that 1t is possible to give him,
President Hook is going to put the, names OF
fore the race, let the Drivers draw for POSITION
BY taking these slips from hat out on the
tage In any race on a half-mie course s and and
Patchen and Gentry are so evenly matched
fs ss THE that
Henry Haws John Yickensson having 70 drive
the $4,000 race at boston on that day. Haws
is known as one Of the best non-proiessional
:, Purses worth SIS. 900 will close to-day for
was arranged last week some changes have
been made n the programme; ssaEchlight's
oPsR nsy Iosse # 5000 foE
made p the result almost q ioregone conclusion.
Nam Mambrino King will have to start in the POS
Frank BoGash. :04S. and Planet 2:o4 x now
lb,y WAS. as Borough Park This rage will prob
70 Be contest Of the Highest order. o Since
seaIchlight was beaten at Rochester and Ana
are not hard to find who believe that Tom
Heating kept the faster PAGER OF the two when
$1,000. They say the eeding had speed to
spare in the fast heat at Glens Falls The 2:05
race has been shifted from Wednesday Sept 9. |
to Saturday. the closing day OF the Grand Cir
cult meeting. Another shift places the 2:I4
trotting race on Thursdays card, while the
2:18 race. originally scheduled for Thursday,
replaces the 2:14 race on Wednesdays pro-
gramme.
E. NJ. Waterbury-The betting at Rochester
on the Gentry, Patchen- Searchlght pacing
race was about like this: Searchlight sold in
the auction pools for $780, while John r. Gem
try AMI Joe Patchen together brought $lO0
Louisville's Fall Card for tho Harness
Horses.
The programme OF the fall meeting OF the
Louisville Driving and Fair Association. to be
held from Sept 25 to 30. has been announced.