The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-06
HORSE RACES AT
kAPlOLANI PARK
The Honolulu Driving association
Will Bring off Some Excel
lent Events This Afternoon.

Inc Following races, under the auspices
of the Honolulu Driving Association. are
down for decision at the Kapiolani Park
track this afternoon:
| Three-minute class trotting and pacing.
best two heats out of three
| Ihree-eighths mile pony race
Gentlemen's running race, one mile
| Gentlemen's driving race, one mile.
Racing starts at 3 D. M
! Up to late hour last night the follow
ins entries had been handed in:
Tlrree-minute class-C H. Judds bay
mare Susie. Charles Bellina,s grey horse
Sampson.
Gentlemens driving race-Black mare
Tersy. c. H. Bellinas grey horse Harry.
Pony race. H. Judd's bay pony Ka-
| ena.
/ Our Boy, known here as Wela Ka Hao.
and formerly owned by Billy Cunning
ham, is on the turf again. This is the old
warriors latest performance:
/ Stockton, September Is:
Gentlemen'S road race, mile heats purse
$3.50:
Our Boy ............G. ]. weldon) 2211I
Atdine ............G. Callendne) 1924
iMunyon ...........-.H. S. Upson) 34662
Peo ...............F. E. Wright 43355
Pansy ..................W On. A. BelD 55436
Baby Button ..(Homer Buckmanl 1854
Time-2:19A, 2:2O. 2:19ls. 2:231k, 2:23.
the English St. Leger. of the three
principal races annually run across the
water:
Diamond Jubilee won the st. Leger on
September 18th and has thus carried or
three of the principal events of the Eng
lish turf this year-the Derby, Two Thou
sand Guineas and st. Leger.
When Colonel st. Leger, in 1774. estab-
lished the great race named after him,
which was run September 18th for the
az tvr,o
lwittingly started new era In racing
Previously the only fixed events were the
Kings plates, of hundred guineas each.
granted from the privy purse to twenty
four favored locahtles All the races be-
Iycnd these were matches or impromptu
sweepstakes got up on the spur of the
moment. But the Colonel's plan of enter
ing horses yearlings for races to be
ruE on a fixed date, when they were two
ior three years old rapidly grew in favor,
and for over fifty years, until handicaps
became in vogue, formed the bulk of the
programs at all important English meet
Iirgs.
The first ST. Leger only attracted six
lentries, five of which went to the post.
The initial race fell not to it's origlnators,
but to Lord Rockingham. The event still
grew in favor, though the conditions, US
for each entry, run or not without any
added money. do not now seem attractive.
Still they must be popular with English
Owners, for the race has several times
exceeded the Derby in value, and for The
last forty years has seldom been worth
less than s25, 900. This year there were
25o entries, four of which were void in
consequence of the death of the Duke OF
Westminster. The Duke of Portland had
eight nominations, but unfortunately his
Oaks winner, La Roche, was not among
them. This robbed the race of its -nfafn
ATTRACTION, which is the meeting of the
winners of the Derby and Oaks.
The St. Leger course, the exact distance
of which is one mile six furlongs 132 yards.
is laid out on Doncaster Moor, in York
, shire, 140 miles from London. 1t is IN the
shape of a horseshoe, and the horses run
the reverse way, the inner rail being On
the whip hand. Though the track is
= nearly level and the ground generally
hard, the time is never fast, the record
: being 3:11 3-5, made by Sea Breeze, in 1888.
y The first time ever taken for this race,
or for that matter for any other, was in
: E1S19, when the winner covered the dis
Z tar e in $780, but the weights were then
112 pounds, against 126 at the present.
. Diamond Jubilee's win is the second OF
z that great stake for the Prince Of Wales.
y and duplicates the performance of his
Q brother Persimmon three years ago.