The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-18
WELLER AND
SOCIALIST
Training for Their
Approaching
Race.
THE RECORDS AND
FORM OF EACH
Are so Well Matched That 1t Will
Be Very Hard to Pick
the Winr er.

Prince David's sorrel horse. Weller,
went up to HiIo on the Kinau yester-
day, in charge of his trainer, James
McAuliffe. w. II. Smiths old PAGER
Acrobat (2:1), was also taken up by
McManus.
Weller is scheduled to meet Socialist
meeting on New Years day. In the
race. which is a free-for-an affair, and
not a match, there will be other start
ers, probably Fiero, Dixie Land, Car
ter H. Harrison Jr. and one other
The distance is a mile, and the purse
$3.50. With the purse will also go the
valuable trophy known as the Hilo
Track cup.
| Weller, which is a stallion, will be
asked to pack 124 pounds. Socialists
impost will be 121 pounds. Weight for
age governs the race.
Socialist will be ridden by Golden,
of his races at the. Coast McAuliffe
will pilot Weller.
Weller is five year old horse by
knight of Allister-Lizzie Pickwick. He
| is half brother to the famous Henry
of Navarro, once the champion of the
American turf. Socialist is an aged
bay geIding by st. Carlo-Anarchy He
is now jointly owned by Harry Evans
and G.. S. Mckenzie.
The race is the outcome of much dis
cussion as to the merits of the ami
mails at mile. Weller in the States,
when trained by Kittleman, was con-
tance shorter than a mile and a quar-
ter. He could go the four mile work,
however, with ease and speed. A cou-
pie years or so ago he won the two
mile Tanforan handicap in San Fran
cisco from the favorite, Forts. Forts
was not allowed to do his best in this
race.
Later on Weller and Forts met in
the Thornton stakes, run at Ingleside,
over four miles of ground. Kittleman
told Prince Cupid that Weller had a
mortgage on the race. and figuring on
the Tanforan form he had The princes
party plunged on the sorrel, but he
was ANONYMOUSLY beaten by Forts. !
After the race Weller went wrong and
was shipped to Honolulu.
account, but last January at HiIo, and !
in June at kapiolani Park, he swept ,
the board, showing a mile in better |
than 1:42, or equal to a shade worse |
than 1:4O on first-class track.
Socialist has been a bread-winner in
the plating class in California. His
best performance was accomplished at
Oakland last year when, carrying 104
pounds, he romped home in a mile race,
on the chin strap, by ten lengths, in
the wonderful time of 1899. He has
not run yet in Hawaii, as he developed
a leg" soon after his arrival He was !
fired and blistered, and is now said to
be as good as ever. Jockey Golden has
been brought down to ride him in the
big race.
If both horses go to the post fit and
well, the race should be worth cross
ing the water to witness. Weller is a
firm favorite in Honolulu, and Hilo
Will back the son of st. Carlo till
there's no more left. There is every
of square race, as both
owners are above suspicion, and if
crooked work is done it viii be unbe-
known to the owners.
The race should, if truly run, be fin =
shed in 1:44 or whereabouts.
Weller Will be at home with the
weight that ne viii have to carry. be-
ng a born weight packer, and used TO
l. Socialist, on the other hand, will be
packing about seventeen pounds more
han he did when he gave his best
'unning. on that occasion. however.
lie won in 1894 by ten lengths pulled !
Up.
There will be horse racing at Waia-
ua on Christmas day, and three Ho-
lolIlu horses viii take part in the
vents. They are: Domingo Ferreira's
crock, and Kuu Lei and KeaIoha. 4
crock and Kun Lei viii run a match =
ace over quarter of a mile for 500
side.
kuu Lei is sorrel recently import
d from the Coast by Manuel FSodrf- "
uez. The animal. under another name
said to have won races up there. oil
Ferreira will ride his own horse, and
3Se.
A number of horses owned by Jap
nese. natives, Portuguese and planta-
on lunas are expected to face the
arter in the various events. Domingo
erreira has magnanimously offered to
It up the purses, and says that he
Ill try to break even on side bets -
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