New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-03
HARNESS RACING.
GOSSIP OF THE TROTTERs.

rx-rornoration Counsel " r. Clark is going 10
open his new trotting track near Yonkers with a
programme that will keep the ticket-selers busy
on Labor Day. The chances are that the hist mar
ness race on the new track VIII be novelty hahu-
can fin which the three great PAGERS Star Pointer.
1.sqi.. John r Gentry 9oUz and Joe Patchen,
2O1K will be the starters Secretary Toman Is now
trying 70 get them together on the basis recently
suggested by John Splan. namely, Pointer 10 pun
wagon. Gentry TO pull sulky and Patchen 10 go
under saddle. c. W Marks, the true sportsman
who owns Joe Patchen offered TO send his
farnous horse 20 New York TO do anything that
will add 10 the sport and contribute to the success
az the meeting" Mr. Marks. who IS a wealthy chi
cago merchant, took a vacation last. year and
drove his own horse IN all his races, but he would
hardly get on It's back ride the big black stall
Ton in a saddle race The presence Of John R.
Gentry has been assured by q voluntary offer on
the mart OF Its owner T. II. Hartman, TO let the
handsome son Of Ashland Wilkes start against all
corners on the day the new track Is opened tA-
CONGRESSMAN W J. White has not yet been ap-
preached IN regard 10 entering Star Pointer. but
those who know the Cleveland horseman say II is
certain the race will not fail for lack OF his sup
port Another proposed feature Of the opening day
AT the new track Is dou5leteam race on the lines
recently suggested in The Tribune. c. j. Ramlin
mas agreed to start his newly matched pair OF 2AO
trotters The Abbott. POS. and Batueton. 2DsA' and
Secretary Toman Is now In correspondence with
Harry Darlington and Calvary Morris. the owners
Of Elloree 20eA and Cephas 21lA with view
to securing this crack pair from Cleveland. Fl. o.
Haveneyer's Harrietta. 20sl4. and Mss Ida, zlO+
may be among the starters
TWO 5000 purses viii be opened next week for the
New-York Grand Circuit meeting Of 1893. The class
es will probably be for POS PAGERS and for PIP trot-
ters and the conditions governing both races VIII
ena Die nomnators transfer their entries or SUD
sfitute other horses up TO within q Few weeks OF
the meeting in September Several other early CLOS
ing purses VIII Be announced next week. Secre-
fary Toman SAYS there Will be three dash races IN
the Grand Circuit meeting, one at a mile ana a
quarter another at a nile and half and q thrd
AZ two miles All other races at the meeting Will
be mile heats, best two IN three -,
bids were opened yesterday in Chicago for the
800 go Horse Review" stake race for three-year
Odds 10 be tr0tted next fall, and the enierprs!ng
managers OF the Dubuque meeting IN the Great
Western Circuit got the biggest harness race OF the
wear on a bid Of $500 This will be dlsappo!n,-
Inent TO many New-YOrk hOrsemen, who cxpecie ed
10 see the race trotted the track here, and
TO some OF the Eastern nominators as well, for
they must now ship their colts out beyond the Mis-
sissippi 10 trot for the big prize
Robert Goelet z. II. Hartman and ex-senator
John Mccarthy will IN offer purse OF 81 600 for
The trotters at the Goshen meeting in the Orange
County Circuit this year II = more than pro able
that Mr. Harrman's crack PAGER. John r. Gentry
2.OIb and the famous Chicago PAGER. Joe Patchen,
2,Oli+ will measure strides In match race az the
Goshen meeting Both horses are among the best
half-nile track performers ever seen on the turf
Patchen having paced in 204A over the Combina-
tion Park track at Boston while Gentry turned the
course at Malone y. Y. IN 2:l654 two years ago.