The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-04
WELLER AND
SOCIALIST.
Will Race in HiIo
On New Years
Day.

from the Coast on the Sonoma, has
formulated plans for the Thanksgiving
day and New Years day races at Hoo
lulu Park of which Mckenzie is the
manager. The meeting on the 18th IN
slant will be in a way a preliminary
to the big meeting to be held in Hilo
on January 1, 1902. and it has been ar
ranged mainly to induce owners to get
their stock UP in order that they may
be in shape by the beginning of the
year.
The program for Thanksgiving day
is as follows:
1. Trotting and pacing. 2:2O class.
purse 800.
2 Haif-mile dash, free for all, purse
800.
g. Half-mile dash. Japanese-owned
horses, purse $50.
4. Five furlongs dash, free for all,
purse $75.
5. Six furlongs dash. free for all,
purse 800.
6. one mile dash, free for all, purse
800
:. Half-mile dash, Japanese-owned
horses, purse $50.
s. One mile hurdle race, purse $75.
The conditions of the races call for
three horses to enter, and three to
start. Horses finishing second will save
entrance money. which will come out
of the purse. The races will commence
at l o'clock.
Bob BaIlentyne goes up to Hiio to-
morrow with Molly Connors and posi-
bly, Virgie A and others. Jim McAu-
life will take Weller up on the Kinau'
and George Thomas, Cal Leonard and
John Callahan are also arranging to
go along. The latter may take up
Edna G.
Jim McAuliffe, who recently returned
from Australia, has taken charge of
Weller which horse has been looked
after by Cal Leonard in his absence.
There will be two afternoons of rae
ing at Hilo between Thanksgiving and
New Years day. There will be no rae
ing on Christmas day. The New Years
meeting will extend over January list
and I'd MIR. Mckenzie has arranged
with the Wilder Steamship Company
for the KinaU to leave for Hilo at L
o'clock noon on Monday, December 80
and to return TO Honolulu at 10 o'clock
on the morning Of Friday, January 3D.
This arrangement will allow passen-
gers to witness all the racing. and to
have time to depart without being
rushed Excursion rates viii prevail;
that is one fare will be charged for
the round trip.
On Saturday Mckenzie and Prince
David met and agreed to race Weller
and Socialist at a mile on January list.
The race, which will be the second on
the card will be for the valuable tro-
ply known as the Hilo Track cup and
a purse of $3.50 After that race has
been decided the two owners have
"a hi win a
again on some date yet TO be decided.
d q distance OF one and one-quarter
miles.
Following are the programs for jan
uary / and ,:
NEW YEARS DAY.
/. Trotting and pacing, 2:14 class,
Holmes cup and purse of 500.
.. One mile dash, free for all. Hiio
Track cup and purse of $50.
5. Half-mile dash, free for all. purse
800.
4. Trotting and pacing. 23s class.
purse $75-
5. Three-eighths mile dash, purse s75.
s. Haf-milo dash, Japanese-owned
horses, purse $50.
:. Six furlongs dash. free for all.
purse 500.
s. Five furlongs dash. free for all,
9. Half-mile dash, Japanese-owned
horses, purse $50
10. One mile hurdle race, six jumps,
purse SIS.
JANUARY 2
. Trotting and pacing. 2:2O class,
purse 500.
. HaIf-mile dash. free for all handi-
cap. purse 800.
g. Half-mile dash, Japanese-owned
horses. purse $25.
4 Five furlongs dash. free for all.
handicap. purse S75.
3. one mile dash, free for all. Hilo
Mercantile cup and purse of 800.
8. One and one-quarter mile hurdle
race, eight hurdles. purse s75.
Z Six furlongs dash. free for all.
handicap, purse s75.
s. Consolation race, one mile. purse
SO.
The rubber barrier will be used To
start all races with. This has been
experimental with recently and found
10 act perfectly.
G. :. Mckenzie bought a number Of
horses while at the Coast. which left
for Hilo on October 18th on the Falls
of Clyde. Bob Burns has charge Of
the shipment. Included in the lot are
several green harness horses by Nut
wood, and two Creighton and two Imp.
st. Saviour colts. There is also on
board the Fails of Clyde. Del Vista. a
four year-Old sorrel running mare by
Delmar-P Playful. and three-year-old
bay gelding by George Kenney-Green-
Wich.
Jockey Golden. who rode Socialist in
his races at the Coast last year. is
on his way 10 the Islands. together