The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-24
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WEIGHT, PENALTIES AND ALLOW
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WEIGHT, @PENALTIE$ AND ALLOW
tANCES.
Weight. - Four-year-olds, 145 pounds;
fiye-year-olds, 1853 pounds; slx-year-olds
and oyer, 1865 pounds; mares allowed tlVe
pounds; geldings, three pounds.
Penalties.-The winner Of the spring
Hunters Steeplechase in 1900 to carry L
pounds extra. The winners of the Hun
ters' Champion Steeplechases in 1889 or
1900 to carry IL pounds extra. Winners OF
a steeplechase for hunters in 1900 or 1901
of the value of more than 500 to the
winner to carry three pounds extra; OF
two such races Sspounds extra; of three
or more such races 10 pounds extra. No
horse shall through penalties carry more
than $50 pounds.
Allowances.-Horses that have never
started in g steeplechase or hurdle race
allowed 10 pounds. Horses that have
never been placed in steeplechase or
hlirdIe-race allowed pounds. Half-breds
allowed 10 pounds, or if both sire and dam
are half bred, 10 pounds. Gentlemen rid
ers allowed pounds or if they have not
ridden a winner in a steeplechase or hur-
die race i'll 1900 or 1891, s pounds.
No horse shall by allowances carry less
than 1870 pounds. Allowances for half
breds must be claimed when the horses
are named. Overweight to any amount
dl1OW cu-tI Cidllcu tlic lille dlllcuuSSo
for the first race of the day upon which
this race is to be run.
Ten subscriptions, to be made on or be-
fore March 9th, or the race may be de-
clared off. About two miles and a half
over the steeplechase Course of the
Washington Jockey Club.
One of the best-informed students of
blood lines and pedigrees of both thor
oughbreds and trotters we have here is
TTynS cor A mi nj G
Smith. veterinary surgeons, who sue
ceeded Dr. r. L. Triton. Young Smith
is a man of pleasant manners and Il
close student Of his profession Like his
co-worker, DR.. Thomas NJ. Sweeny, he
graduated with high honors at the Onta-
rio Veterinary College, Canada. and is
well thought of here. DR.. Smith came
here from Lexington, Ky, where his
grandfather, E. T. Haggard, and his un-
Gle, j. r. Haggard with whom he was
formerly associated, are well-known
members of the veterinary profession
and horsemen as WELL the latter hay
ing bred the noted gray pacing mare.
Bessie Bonehill, 2:05A. by Empire Wilkes.
Messrs. E. w. =Haggard and It. II. Hag-
gard, who are also uncles of DR.. Smith,
are connected respectively with the great
breeding, establishments of the late Mar.
Gus DAILY, of Montana, and ]. B. Haggin,
of California.
81 am satisfied that by next fall he will
: be Lynne Bells fastest colt. He is the
best-gaited. best-mannered and earnest
horse ever drove" Thus wrote Chas..
Atkinson, one of the very best trainers
and drivers in Virginia and formerly chief
handler of John Mariners racing stable
at Norfolk Trainer Atkinson refers to
the Young trotter Gen. Johnson, bred and
formerly owned by Mr.. Charles Sharp, a
prominent lawyer of Norfolk, that he
brought out perfectly green last summer
and drove to a winning race record of
a:o2l1, on Prospect Parks half-mile track
near Baltimore. Md. Atkinson added III
his letter of recent date that he regrets.
having sold Cen Johnson, as he did tor
a tempting price to the President OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, after this
race: but says: ST want another Lynne
Bel. and am going. to breed trottlng5
mare chat I saw go a halfsin 1:02. she IS
speed crazy, sound. but no good forsra g
ing. as she can't be rated. After breed.
ing her to Lynne Bel I shall enter her IN
some futurity stakes and hope to get a
futurity winner.
Atkinson is now training stable OF
strotters and PAGERS for A. Il. ~ Glel latl,.
OF Norfolk, among them being several OF. OF
the get of the great race-horse and sslre
Director. 81 q s
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