The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-22
PLACING THE HORSES
MANAGER HULL BUSY ASSIGNING
STALLS TO THE RUNNERS.
ATLANTA MEET ENDS SATURDA
AND A LARGE NUMBER OF THE
HORSES NOW RUNNING THERE
WILL COME DIRECT.

Everything Is Now in Perfect Con-
titiOn at the Track, and Horse
Lovers Will Have "a Chance to
witness the Exercise GalIOps Next
Week--The Addition of "A Six Inch
Clay Surface Has Made the Track
Much Faster and II Is Expected
That Many Records Will Be BrOk-
en- During the Coming Meet.
schultz stable VIII Winter Here.
Manager Hull of the Savannah Rae
ing Association is assigning stall room
to the horses that are expected to ar
rive here the latter part of this week.
A good lot is expected to reach Sa-
vannah Saturday night, coming direct
from Atlanta, leaving there before the
meet closes that day. These horses
will be exercised on the track every
afternoon next week, and those who
take interest in seeing the thorough
breds breeze will have an excellent OPP
portunity every afternoon. There Will
also be morning trials, but these will
be too early for even the rail birds
to gather until the fever of interest
has reached that stage of intensity
when the birds will sleep in the pad
dock
Hurdle races will be made one of
the features of the races. No events
have been assigned as yet, but the
dates that have been left vacant will
be used for these events. Each year
-; al Of fY,croooad in
popularity until now no meet is con-
sidered complete without it.
There are several good hurdle horses
in the strings that will come here, and
Manager Hull says that he expects to
pay special attention to this branch of
the entertainment.
Carpenters were busy yesterday
erecting a judges booth directly in
front of the press box in the grand
stand The stand, however, will be
so low that it will in no wise interfere
with the range of vision.
The confusion that has heretofore
existed when the jockeys were get
ting ready to go to the scales will be
done away with this year, as they
viii be required to dress and make
weight before going to the official
scales. The dressing rooms will be
fitted up in one of the wings of the
entrance building
Another entrance has been made to
the grandstand, and a pair of steps
erected to permit of those in the stand
going down to the lawn in front for
a promenade. This space will be
made as attractive as possible, and
will be the very places for the ladies
to promenade between events.
The track is being put in splendid
condition now, and by Saturday will
be as fast as any of the Eastern
tracks. The six inches of clay that
was added to the surface has made the
course as springy as pasteboard and
it is expected that the track record
will be smashed during the coming
meet.
Manager Hull has received the in
formation that the Schultz stable of
runners will probably accept the in
vitation extended to come here for
the winter. There are some of the
best horses now running in the South
in this string, among them Honolulu,
Shrine and Juvenile. An effort will
be made to get many more to spend
the rest of the winter in quarters here.
If this is done the track will be kept
in thorough repair all the year, and
1t will be possible to arrange matinee
races during pleasant weather.
Manager Hull will make a visit to
Atlanta one day this week to make
final arrangements for the coming of
the runners.