The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-16

GENERAL TURF ITEMS.

Trains leave Union Station u 80. l::6. e:Os
| 30. Washington ave-. LES 1:3l, 2:H. s:Ju
GENERAL. TURF ITEMS.
Starter Dade Now I'm the City-Sched-
ule for Northern Circuit.
A. B. Dade, who for three years ha:
| started the races at the local tracks, is il
ST. Louis from his home at Henderson
KY. As the Best and Only lives in Hender'
son, Mr.. Dade can fairly receive credit
| for coming to st. Louis to see his Inascu
| line friends. Doctor John Young Brown
| Doctor F. j. Neville. Doctor James, Mr.
| Hachneister and E. w. Maginn.
| Mr.. Dade will scarce see the latter gen.
tlemaE. Mr.. Maginn is now keeping com
pany with the bear, the bat and the but
tert1y. the cuckoo and the swallow in an
| nual Information. Mr.. Dade will give q
bachelor dinner at the Missouri Athletic
Club at 6 p. m. to-day and hopes to nee,
Mr.. Masinn there.
Speaking Of Dade brings to mind his
| excellent starting last fall. For the las,
three months of racing at ST. Louis Dade
did not fine jockey. This was so unusual
and unheard of that Secretary Woodruff
of the Western Jockey Club wrote to Sec
rotary Hachmeister asking him If he had
not forgotten to remit jockey fines to the
proper Quarter-the ". ]. c. When AIR.
Hachnieister informed Mr.. Woodruff that
Mr.. Dade had not levied any fines, the
Chicagoan wrote Mr.. Hachmeister a let
ter in which he said that it was well that
observation-disclosures a man OF we'll
known probity.
Were it not so,'' said Mr. woodruff.
Il might. think you were holding out on
the ". j. c.
In two days last week Starter Fitzgerald
That is more than Mr.. Dade fined all his
boys in 1874 days of racing.
Asked to explain his system Of moving
starts. Dade said:
, THE most important thing you have got
TO do is to control the boys. Get them to
come up waiting and without nudging and
launching their mounts. Then IL is simple.
l found it hard to get them to do this.
Finally l found u remedy When 1 saw
a boy nervous or overeager and acting as
If he were going to try steal l at
once laid down the button. Hence. they
saw the gate could not go up, and that
their super-alertness was OF no use. Then
made them come up and stand fiat-foOt-
ed and break.
lance. and made them walk up again. II
l missed the first paraue, 1 made them
stand flat
To Dade unqncstionabiy belongs the
q.
the moving start to a gate. He used it at
Delmar in July. Joe Murphy saw him work
1t at Kinloch. When Murphy went back
to Canada ne put Maurice Cassidy next
worth and Aquedu. and got all the credit
for it. Caldwell first tried the moving
start ten years ago. but could not make
Phil Bollinger. writing from San Fran
cisco to a friend in st. Louis. says that
he is not $4,000 winner. as reported. but
about even. He speaks of San Francisco
racing in the warmeSt terms
The play is heavy" says Mr.. Bollinger.
land the bettors the wisest i ever saw.
They have the alleged wise fellows of st.
The authorities manage affairs in splendid
style out here. Seldom 1t IL that racing
governors get the man behind the gun.
as was done here i'll the Davis case 1t
was the most thorough job Of cleansing
ever done on race track"
Although rumors have been spread that
the Crosse Pointe track at Detroit will
not ask for dates this year. President
Campau OF the course stated that appli-
cation for racing periods would be made
at the next meeting OF the Western
Jockey Club.
Not only will applications be made. he
states. but two meetings will be run over
the track next summer. The Derby will
have an added-mOney value of 5000 this
year, he says, preparations are now
on foot for a lengthy season.
II IS planned to open the Northern cir
cult at Toronto with meeting from May
p to June 4. This will be followed by
worth track hopes 10 re-enter the game
with meeting from May 50 to June IS.
The Fort Erie track next comes in with u
meeting from June 20 TO August 4, and
this will be followed by meet at High
| land Park, Detroit. August to September
). Then comes another series of meetings
at Toronto. Buffalo and Windsor.
]. w. Russwurm, secretary of the Ten
! nessee Breeders Association writes that
Tom Hayes is thinking of entering Gold
Heels. the former Arnold stallion. in the
Worlds Fair Handicap next season when
that event is reopened George Hendrie
of Detroit may also enter Reservation. he
states Both horses are now at Cumber-
land Park. Nashville.
Hayes intends to make wholesale decla-
| rations from the Memphis stakes. accord
ing to Mr. Russwurm. He has already an
nOunced his intention of withdrawing
Fenian and Bugler from the Tennessee
Derby and Radium and Orient from the
Tennessee Oaks.
One OF the features at Cumberland
Park this season Is a night school for the
apprentice boys OF the track. The boys
are equipped with books. states and 9th
er aids to learning free of charge, and it
Is said that quite an attendance of young
Several owners now at Nashville are
said to be preparing for a season at Hot
Springs in case dates are allotted to that
track. John Ferriss. s. f. Farmer and
two or three others expect to race there.
Johnny McHale made circuit of the
racing headquarters yesterday and an
nounced that he had a dozen horSes he In
tended to race at the meeting of the new
Union Jockey Club next spring. Among
the number. he claims. is most promis-
ing yearling which he believes will prove
2-year-oid Of the first water.
McHale still owns Our Nellie, the flly
which was one Of the best 2-year-olds at
the Fair Grounds course several years ago.
She is now one of the rnatrons of his es.
tablishment. having been retired to the
stud after short career on the turf.
Captain Carmody said yesterday that
he had received word from Tom Kelley,
Kirby Orr. G. Brown and several other
horse owners announcing their intention
Of racing at the, new track. From as
surances already received he stated that
the track had fully. 100 horses promised at
this early date.