The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-17
Many Animals Are
Already in
Training.
FAMILIAR FACES
AGAIN ON VIEW
Early Start Made This Year.
There Will Be Plenty
of Horses.

Jockey Club was held nearly six weeks
earlier this year than has formerly
been the case, and already the good
results OF the innovation may be wit
messed by a visit to Kapiolani Park
track. In previous years the middle
of March saw the stalls empty. the
paddock deserted, and a general air
OF desoiation everywhere. This year.
however, all this is changed. and al
ready a dozen or more horses are sta
bled at the track, and the business of
conditioning them has commenced in
earnest.
Another sure sign of the approach Of
the racing season is the coming to
town of rubbers. Jockeys. trainers.
stable boys and omne hoe genera who
make the paddock their home from the
end Of March until the curtain rings
down on the HiIo July meeting. when
like Longfeliow's crab. they pack up
their traps and silently steal away. in
hope OF picking up some of the crumbs
et the back end meetings on the Main
land
grants, they are returning to a land
and elime which experience has taught
them is neither unpleasant nor un-
profitable. The latest arrival Is Jockey
Piggctt. who came down from the
Coast to Honoipu in the brig Gaiilee.
and thence by steamer He rode here
ard at Hilo last season. Red Pike"
O'Brien and Ike" Sullivan are also
reported to be headed this way.
The prospects for the coming season
appear TO be very bright. and there
should be fully as many horses enter
ed as was the case last year. Indeed.
IL looks as IL there would be more
harness entries this year than for sew
eral years past. G. s. Mckenzie was
in town last week from Hilo. and as
good as said that he would ship his
stable here for June IL, and the other
Hflo owners are pretty sure to follow
his lead. Colonel Spalding was also In
Honolulu recently. but would not com
NIT himself as to whether the keala
horses would be here or not this sea-
son.
Among the trainers now at the track
IS the veteran Jack Gibson, who is on
the turf again, after a lapse OF TWO
years. He is looking after green pay
PAGER belonging to Seeley Shaw, which
is being logged along at a 3-mlnute
clip. He has also a green Creole pacing
mare half sister to Edith X. Whicn
won in the Hawaiian-bred class last
year The mare is the property OF
Tom King.
Jim quinn mas cOupit III hethN'
Waldo j and Cyclone. The fwhite
ghost is too well known to local race
goers to need description; suffice IL
therefore to say that he looks as Wen
as he ever did in his life. The otner
horse is a big outstanding black pacing
geIding, with white blaze. he Is new
at the game and worked along in Z:9o
on Saturday with three or four breaks
thrown in Ed Finn is working with
Quinn.
John CaiIan is snugly esconced in
the stables occupied by Bonnie Judd
last year, at the mauka end OF the
track In his string are Leahi, g L.
wight's Edna G., and green pacing
mare by a son of Dexter Prince, which
looks big enough for anything. Hoi-
Iinser expects his pet, Leahi. to snow
his quality this year, aud he has now
come to an age when he should. Edna
O. looking fat and we'll, was putting
in slow heats on Saturday, and pacing
with machine-like regularity Neither
of Tom Hoilinger's runners, ASSraNa-
tion and Racery, have been gotten up
yet.
Another old face at headquarters is
Mike "yVela ka Hao" Costello. who is
in charge Of w. Norton's game htue
roam mare, Directress (2:2D, which mas
not been raced since 1900. He is oc-
cupying Larry Dee's old suite OF stahs'
and expects to have a couple more ,
the way that Dee will keep Octoroon
and Albert NJ (2:29) in their stables
this year. as far as racing IS concern
ed Octoroon. however. Is being jog /
ged on the road all the time
There are no runners at the track
yet. Byoza. the sorrel horse owned by
Domingo Ferreira, having been taken
to town by his owners brother. Dur
ing the last two months several dark
horses have arrived here from the
Coast including "A couple OF runners
and q soFrel DiablO mare. the latter
being consigned TO Paul Isenberg. The
newcomer IS a good locker and is said
to possess lots OF natural speed She
arrived In the bark Olympic. Harmon
Edmunds will. IL is said. shortly be
here with some horses
Every Sunday morning now sees
quite a crowd Of enthusiasts at the .
track. who come TO see the amateur
refnsnen OF the city indulge In brush
On these occasions every man In town