The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-02
GRAND CIRCUIT RACES
ATHARTFoRD NEXT WEEK CoM- MENcIEG MONDAY AFTERNOON.

Some Particulars About the Horses
 s1O,OOO for the Charter Oak Race on
 Thursday-The Money to be Won in
 Three Heats onIy-Other Particulars.
 The grand circuit drivers. horses and race track followers will meet next week at Charter Oak park, Hartford, where the races are to commence on the afternoon Of Labor day, September l5. The lawns around the grand stand have been beautifed and prepared for the visitors that are expected during the week. TEo mile track has been worked into excellent condition and is now as fast as desired. Some of the very fast horses have already arrived and more are expected during this week. Three fast classes are on the programme for Monday. One of the classes is the 2:10 trot which has the names of the following well known horses: Direct View, Idolita, John Mo entered by E. F. Geers and Stanley Dill lon, winner of the $1O,OOO Merchants and Manufacturers race of Detroit in July of this season. Several other names of horses eligible to start are sufficient to ensure good race.
 All of the races for Monday and two lof the races for Tuesday are to be in ' 5 heat contests. The 2:O2 pacing class on the card fer Tuesday Is a ? in ? race as it is customary to require the fastest pacers to win only two heats to secure first money.
 Three races are to be decided on "Wednesday, and all are well filled. The i2:O6 class for trotters is one of the three and has the following names; Caspian 2:01 1z4. Charley Herr 2;0R Fereno 2:O5 1-2. Hawthorne 2:O6 1-4, Judge Green. 2.O9. and Mckinney 2:O7 IA.
 For Thursday, September 8, three races are provided, one of them being the celebrated Charter Oak race for $IO,OOO. This purse is for trotters that were eligible to the 2:O9 class last April The conditions of this race are a little out of the ordinary although the same lstyle has been previously tried Each heat is a race, the number of heats being limited to three. For the first lheat the winner gets $2,0OO: the second horse $500 and the third horse is to re ceive $500.
 Tn the second heat the winner gets $2, 900, the second horse $500 and the third trotter $500. In the third heat the horses receive the same as in the sec ond heat.
 Among the entries for the Charter lOak races this year is Sweet Marie l2:06 1-4, winner of five of the large ipurses this season and purse money laggregating s15,4Op, The amount oi lpool money which she has turned over Ito her packers iss beyond estimation, l Another entry is Consuela $, 2:O7 3-4, g consistent race winner, both this sea- lson and last, one tof her recent victo.
 ries being the rage for The Massa- lchusetts," S15, 900, at Readville, on Au. gust 24. This mare is bred to go fast
 las she is sired by Directum 2:O5 1-l land her dam was by the celebrated INutwood 2:1s s-4. Another horse thai will have. packers in the race is George I c, 2.07 S-4s a trotter that is in tht hands of the expert driver, E F. Geers I N. w, Hubinger has named his stal. Ilion MetalIas 2:11 in the big race, sew leral other fast trotters are included 1T the list of entries.
 I One of the races Cor Friday is tn,
 Hartford Futurity s11,0OO for three. lyear-olds.
 1 Three good races are to be decided a. the same track on Saturday of next lweek.
 l The grand stand. with tn eexceptior
 of the private boxes is to be free. Ex Icursion tickets, including admission ty I the park, will cost $2.10 for patrons 1 from the New Haven depot.