The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-12

anu Has u guaranteed value OIL S",vo';; ,
Dates have been selected for oil the
| stakes. OF which fourteen Will be run az
| me summer meeting OF the FAR GROUNDS:
MNnn9'u s. We're made that me
worries Fair Handicap. which closed WIN
nlnety-four nominations, would be re-
| opened February /.
Little Joe Wolf, the st. Louis boy who
| made good name riding at the Fort Erie
and Canadian tracks. and who is now at
| New Orleans. had narrow escape from
serious injury Wednesday when Berkel.
doWn together and the local rider was
lucky In escaping with a severe shaking
| up.
Berkelmore, incidentally. was evidently
fit that day. After falling and turning a
somersault. the geding cambered to HIS
!eet, ran five miles around the track
through a crowd of stable boys; who at at,
tempted to stop him every time he passed
the stable turn, then bolted for the fence
and jumped It near the six-turlong pole.
ne circled the stables Il couple of times.
ney. then dashed through Il wire fence
and ran into IL small lake. where he
stopped with the water up to his neck.
He was rescued and seemed to have cs-
capped injury ether than being stiff and
sore from his dash through the fence.
1t Is said that he will be rested UP for
several weeks.
Virginia Carroll, who appeared on the
block at the local courses for II number
Of years past. will depart for the Los An
geles meeting 9th his son in 4 day or
two. Both CAROLS will work ON the
bookmakinS stand at the new California
course.
Ed. Corrisan announces that he will
hang up $4,000 stake for the Kansas
City meeting. The last racing conducted
there that had anything like 4 long lease
OF life was at the defunct Exposition
Lark track with purses averaging from
SO to $1CO each.
The track was a half-miie affair and the
horses that appeared there were mostly
or the bush variety. As Corrigan an
nounces that 500 purses will be hung UP
the sports of that city will likely be daEed
by the sight OF so much money, even on
the programme.
Many believe that the track will lose
its ambition to make Kansas City a racing
mences to come in. If the rosy predictions
of Corrigan. anent purses. are lived up to
1t Is hard to see where the money for
the track stockholders is coming in.
Lntonin Club Stakes.
Cincinnati. O.. Dec. 11.-Tho I4atcnia Jockey
Club to-day announced the following stake
events for the spring meeting of 1904. from May
The ciipsetta Stakes. c-year-old nllies. $1,000
The Harold stakes, for e-year-old colts $1,000
added five furlongs.
The Cincinnati Trophy Sweepstakes. colts and
flles, 2-year-olds. 5000 addcd: winner also
will receive u silver cup donated by Mayo.
Fleischmann: five and ure-half f,irlongs.
The Merchants Stakes selling sweepstakes,
s-year-olds and upward. 1.2jo added one mi.e.
Inc Brewers. Exchange Hanaicap. 3-year-olds
and upward. Sl.25J added: six furlonSs.
The Decoration Handicap. 3-year-olds and
upward 81 500 added: one mile and a sixteenth
The Cincinnati Hotel Spring Handicap, 3-year-
eighth
The Kentucky S.ecnlecbose ovear-oIJ. md
upward. handicap. slUO added: clubhouse
course. about one mile and tliree-qua-texs.
Latonia Derby. :-year-olds $50 added: one
The l.atonia Oaks. 3-year-old Hl!les. $3.50
Stakes for the spring meeting of 1865 close
January 1e. 1904.