The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-06-18
EXCITING
FINISHES
The Race Meeting
Wound Up
Well.

only n fatr-y.zed crowd Journeyed to
Kaptolani Park on Saturday to witness
.he windup OF the meeting. The card
was an excellent one, and from the
time the flag fell in the initial event
until Aggravation landed the consola-
ton stakes, interest in the sport was
well sustained
1t was another bad day for the form
players, the favorites falling down in
four OF the events.
The afternoons racing was fun OF
features to take home and ponder over.
Dixie Land finished the first by his In
excusably poor showing in the jumping
race. watossa is probably the best
over four hurdles but Dixie Land
should have made a much better race
of IL. At no stage Of the game did
Moir's black gelding appear to be do
ing his best.
The real sensation of the afternoon
occurred in false start for the six
furlongs dash, in which Ross took Mol
ly Connors along as If 1t was three
eighths mile DASH and soon opened up a
gap of half dozen lengths. The first
half was run in AS As. Coming into
the stretch Molly Connors was still
three lengths to the good, but she blew
UP a furlong and a half from home,
and Virgie A. came with rush and
passed under the wire in 1:17. When
the starter arrived he said that 1t was
no start.
Twenty minutes later the horses
were brought on the track again, and
Ross again rushed the Hilo filly to the
front AT the three quarters she was
done with, and Virgie A. and Racery
fought out the issue, the former win
ming in 1:16k. an exceedingly meritor-
ious performance under the circum-
stances.
Wayboy. well driven by Jim Quinn,
again showed racing quality by taking
the 2:14 class in three straight heats,
handily.
Game old Amarino's win in the mile
dash for native-born horses was very
popular one. The old horse has won
three races at the meeting and, If he
stands up. should take another purse
for his owner next year That he is
still the best of the Hawaiian breds is
undisputed.
Nothing could touch Weller in the
handicap, which he won in the good
time of 2:11k, pacing the welter of 129
pounds. The only way to have weighted
Prince David's horse, in order to give
his opponents a show. would have been
TO have allotted the sorrel, say l35
pounds, and to have weighted the rest
of the entries so as to equaliZe their
chances as much as possible. Weller
can run a distance in a certain time
carrying weight for age, and nothing
in the entries for the handicap could
have epualed this time, with a feather
on their backs. This being go, 1t would
have been advisable to have weighted
Weller rather than to have taken off
weight from his opponents.
Billy McClosky, Aggravation and
Ciaiety Girl were the entries of the
consolation race, and the attaches of
che various stables FASTENED to win
car fare to town over Hollinger's mare.
That the tip was a good one was evil
dent from the start, for Billy Nc
glosAy was kept behind, until too late
20 be dangerous The jockey made a
spectacular run in the stretch, but ar
tistically failed to catch the fast-tirinG
AFCravation,
The Judges supplied the last and
greatest surprise OF a memorable meet
ing by declaring all bets off. Their ac-
tion was commcndable to a degree, but
whoever would have expected the
worthy occupants Of the judicial stand
noticing anything wrong with the run
ming Of the race?