The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-12

sported silk in the third race. a Ave
furiongs affair for maidens. I.opue ~.,y,o,
rode Ahuimanu. was not to be can~h+
today with Saturdays bait. ana na,d
oii Ola scores with interest by stealing
away with a length and a half lead.
which he kept on Increasing all the way
finishing alone In 1903 1-5.. The winner
was played for dollars and dimes s;sd
Losue received flattering ovation
"nen ne returned to weigh in. Before
the race Secretary Isenbere entered !
protest against Jas McAuliffe. the rider
OF Flamerif on the grounds that that
Jockey was delinquent in the matter or
300 incurred on the track for foul rid
ing two or three years ago. G. Thoma.
TOOK his mount by agreement of ". N.
cunningham and the Judges, but the
executive committee finally overruIed
the protest and allowed McAulifre to
ride, renting the previous fine of s1o0
Hawaiian Breeds.
The harness race for Hawaiian bred
horses took three heats to decide. The
hrst was an utter farce Leahi appear
Ing to be utterly unable TO 60 fast
enough to keep warm. Edith r. was
also afflicted with a pronounced attack
of the slows" and walked under the
wire in s:s1. The same program Ws3s
repeated In the second heat but the
actors took different parts and Leati
sauntered home first in. 1863 IL. Leahi
led all the way in the third heat; Edith
r. tried to make a race OF 1t at the
three-quarters, but In vain; Leahi won
this heat as he liked. and the race went !
with it. The winner is a wonderfuily
handsome horse, but looked to have dis
temper badly. t.s % "a
Antidote and Amarinc, the ever
.EIeef $. mat tazanotnar Of their good Old
annual rf1ffe cUrftes.ts, which was the
distance of the fifth race, for the Irwin
cup. Amarino led to the three-quarters
pole, where the gray tackled him and
they ran neck ana neck through the
stretch, Antioote winning all out by a
neck. Until yesterday each horse had
leg in the cup. but Antidote's victory
made the mug the absolute property of
his owner, Geo. Rodiek.
The Free-For-Au.
The trotting and pacing free-for-a -all
was looked on as the event Of the day.
and sensational contest was ex-
pected. The race in reality was a tame
affair, Violin winning in straight heats
as she liked. Lassie broke badly in the
f1rst heat just past the half mile pole.
and ran very disappointingly.
Ahuimanu was Withdrawn from the
seventh event on account of lameness,
with the approval of a veterinary sur
N. Ta 70
day and defeated Sir Casimir easily
by two lengths in the good time of 1:16.
The race for the Rosita Challenge cup
was the best of the day. Venus led for
three furlongs, when Vioris supplanted
her. At the three-quarters Agpraya
tion looked like making a race Of II. hut
could not overhaul Vioris, who won by
a length in las. with Venus a GOOD
third. Vioris beat Angie IS record of
I:45 1-2. which has stood for seven
years.
The Tenth Race.
,,eller, General Cronje and Antidote
faced the starter in the tenth, a mile
and I-alf race for the Criterion cup
Weller was the horse of the race and
stole home on the chin strap in PAT.
Cronje was second by three lengths.
w. M. Cunningham entered a protest
against the winner on the grounds that
Nichols, who rode him, was under the
ban of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club,
having been ruled off the turf in Cali
fornfa. The executive committee over
ruled the protest. This made the third
time that the red and white colors Of
the David-Parker stable were worn
successfully.
The consolation race was a mere gall
'op for Evereth, who could have won
by city block from Allegro and the
played-out Cronje.
The meeting will conclude gloriously
next Thursday afternoon, when the bill
Of fare will comprise seven events. The
entries promise to be un-
usually good.