The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-10
NEW YEARS.
DAY RACING
Hllo Getting Ready For
A Big Time.
FLYERS FROM HONOLULU
NJ. \. Dggs Speaks Of Prospects
For G0od Sport at hooIulu
Track.

SeCretary OF the Honolulu Driving AS
ISOLATION. who Is on the Island in the
interests Of an insurance company.
to take place here January 1st and 2d.
says the Herald
The races here on July 4th." said |
Nr. Diggs, were so very satisfactory |
to the Honolulu racing men that l am
quite sure the attendance at the next |
meeting will be even larger than at the |
opening Of the track. To show you how |
interested the Honolulu people are !
have only to tell you that when our |
Thanksgiving meeting was postponed |
owing to the rains. IL was suggested |
at n meeting Of the association that the |
races be declared off until Christmas |
This was voted down, in fact the mo- |
tion was scarcely considered for the !
reason that IL would not be fair TO Hilo. |
Some Of the best running horses as
we'll as record trotters and PAGERS will |
be here for your meeting. Bonny Judd
VIII bring up Silas :. and two others
and Prince David will send up his
string of runners. Larry Dee will have
one anyhow and possibly two horses
here, besides one or two dark ones that
are promised by other owners. Jack
Wilson has some good horses on the
track at Honolulu. all Of them known
here, and one new one that came down
on the China the day before / left Ho-
nOlulu. George Mckenzie. the stock
man, had one or two good horses enter
ed for our races and he will bring them
up here. Now then with what McMan-
US has in training and the Hilo horses
that will surely go on the track the
two days racing in January should be
worth looking at.
THE track is much better than 1t was
on July 4th and will be improved still
more before the events come off.
went around the course with Mr.. Will
son the other day and found men at
work taking out all the stones and rak-
ing over the ground. The greatest i'm
Iprovement, however, is in lifting up the
track on the short turn just as you en-
ter the short stretch. That point was
the most objected to by the drivers at
the last races and l am glad to see
| II has been changed. For a half mile
track I consider IL equal to any in the
United States and being good guaran-
tees that the reputation Of Hilo for en-
lcouraging sports will be made. / ex-
,pect to see the time when Honolulu and
Hilo will be sufficiently strong in at
Traction for the owners Of Coast horses
to come here with their animals. but
Iof course II will take pretty fair purses
To induce them to go to the expense.
1t means a big lot Of money to take
horses such a long distance and the
purses must be sufficiently large 20
warrant the expense.
Racing has become a regular thing
with us in Honolulu and the sport is
Encouraged. The Driving Association
there Is separate from the Jockey Club
and We merely lease the grounds with
the privilege of pulling off races on any
day except June IL and July 4. There
are a number Of citizens there who
own horses and who enjoy racing so
that we have two or three events
every Saturday. The Thanksgiv-
ling day meet was to have been
our best but the elements won
out and we had TO postpone the
meet. You people may laugh at us all
\ right for while the people down there
enjoy referring to Hiloites as webfeet
I do not remember attending a racing
meet anywhere during finer weather
than you had on the Fourth Of July
And everything passed off so well;
there was not a jar OF any kind and
Everybody seemed satisfied.
II have been told that Horner's
ranch will probably not have any
horses here for New Years. / am sor-
: ny to hear that and surprised as wei
for the horses from that stable die
well. / expect To visit Mr.. Hornei
within n few days and hope to be able
to persuade him to send over at leas
a few Of his runners. A race meeting
\ In Hilo without Horners being repre-
sented will seem rather strange anC
besides Mr.. HOrner Is a good man L
have here He takes n deep interest IL
the sport and is in II more for tn
sport than the money IL can possibl!
bring. He Is just the kind Of man
like 70 know as the owner of racinl
stock. IL he can be induced to brinl
"a few horses over the attractions vii
be that much greater. The track !
good enough now for anybody's horses
don't care how good they are; If
did not think so I would not encourag
the owners OF horses in Honolulu I
lcome here with their stock. / sincerel
believe that you will have the bes
meeting this time that you have so IA
ndu anu Nhdt theJ "'ii bA"" DSNS~A ."
time passes"
WHAT WILSON SAYS.
Hilo, Hawaii, December Z.
Sporting Editor Advertiser: We wi
give a meeting here on Christmas an
We expect to have a good meeting an
some good racing, as everything point
in that direction. We also have a raC
meeting here on the 1st and I'd of jar
Iuary. 1901. The track is in splendid cor
dition and there are several horses !
training. and I feel confident that u
meetings will be a success in every wa
and better than IL was July 4.