The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-01
new CONDITIONS
FOR The > FUTURITY
Most Radical Change From
the Old Time Racing
Plan.

NEW YORK. Feb. .2S.-Before he
started for Kentucky on a short trip,
Secretary Horace Wilson made public
the conditions Of the rich Hartford
Futurfty for foals Of this year, which
will close April 1, on the nomination
OF the mare and the payment Of IS
entrance fee. The value Of the stake
Is 10000 and the aggregate Of the
payments is but $35. less than one
quarter of per cent, which will put
the colt in the hands Of the starter.
1t is not only rich stake, but is prob
ably the most literally arranged flu
tur1ty ever put on the boards In the
history OF either the trotting or the
running turf.
A. j. WEIGH, owner Of the track, and
Secretary Wilson have been figuring
on the conditions for this stake for
the past two weeks. They have two or
three odd plans buzzing in their bon
nets, but finally came to the conclu-
sion that a plan similar to the one
adopted for the Charter Oak $4,000
and the Ohio stake for $4,000 would
just about be the thing for the futur-
tty, and while 1t is quite an innoya-
ton, the chances are that it will meet
the approval of the breeders who con-
template entering their mares in the
stake.
It is a most radical change from
the old-time colt racing plan. 1t will
be a three-heat race, but it will finish
at the end of three years, unless there
should happen to be a tie, and every
heat will be practically race, as the
money is so divided that on the win
ming Of each heat depends the amount
Of money a colt will win.
Each heat will be worth $4,000 to
the winner and $500 to the second.
Should colt happen to be distanced
after winning a part of the money N
a previous heat. 1t will not affect the
winnings; but the colt will be paid the
amount 1t won. In case of a dead heat
the money will be divided.
At the finish Of the third heat there
will be $4,000 more of the purse to
be divided. twill be distributed &C
cording to the standing Of the colts in
the summary, $4,000 going to the first,
$1,000 to the second and $500 to the
tied for first, they alone will go a
heat to decide the winner.
OF the $4,000 in this stake, $1,000
will be reserved for a racing division,
which will be decided in their three
year old form, at two in three heats,
$1,000 to the first, $500 to second and
$500 to third, according to summary in
the usual way.
In the trotting division, the three
heat, every heat race plan, there Is
strong incentive for colt to go out
and try to win every heat, for the more
heats 1t can win the more money 1t will
get. By winning the three heats a colt
can get $10,500 Of the purse. the larg-
est sum ever made possible to win as
first money IN trotting stake. The
idea of the conditions is to make every
driver go out for the money from the
start.
It Is an incentive for them to try to
win every heat, with the result that
the public will be treated to a real,
up-and-up contest such as 1t has been
clamoring for. A colt that Is not as
good as second gets no part Of the
money except in the division of the S4,-
500 at the end of the three heats, and
then the colt standing for third money
In the summary will get but $500. The
promoters Of this plan believe that it
will not only insure sharp-spirited
contests, but that it will inaugurate
an entire new system In colt races and
greatly increase public interest in them.
The plan is calculated to show the en-
durance Of the colts, and yet the race
will be finished in short order.