Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Turf and Track Notes.

About six thousand persons attended the
races at Los Angeles yesterday. The sport
was of a high class and betting was the
heaviest of the season. The feature of the
card was the Pasadena handicap, at mile
and a furlong, worth $3.50. The finish be-
tween Haviland and Bragg was exciting.
The two horses ran the last sixteenth with
out an advantage of six inches, and Havi-
land was barely able to win by few
inches. Favorite was successful in three
out Of six races
Walter Jennings Proper. 122 pounds. rid
den by Jack Martin. won the New Year
handicap, one mile and furlOng. at the
Ingleside track, San Francisco, yesterday,
in the presence of large crowd. Fossil,
ia pounds. pullman up, was second, and
Oarsman, 119 pounds. Burns up, was third.
of the fastest and best races ever run over
this course. Tommy Burns rode the win
ners of the fifth and sixth races, Chorus
Boy and Pierce J.
There will be no winter meeting at Hot
Springs. and very little reason to think that
there will be any racing there for year. If
then.
According to P. J. Carmody. manager of
the Union Jockey Club of st. Louis. Jacob
Hoffman has accepted an advance OF So, 900
on his salary for the season Of 1904. which,
Carmody declares, will be seven months in
duration, despite the refusal Of the Western
Jockey Club to allot dates to the st. Louis
club.
J. F. Davis, the California bookmaker now
on his way east to appear before the Metro
politan Turf Association to show cause why
he shall not be expelled, may have his jour-
ney for his pains, as G. B. Wheelock. chair
man Of the executive committee. is now
abroad. and, moreover, 50 long as Davis ia
under ban. he must suffer the logical conse-
quences. That Is the way turfmen spoke of
the matter yesterday.
stable, is detained In New York on account
Of throat trouble, which Is being treated by
DR.. Rice. the physician for whom the good
race horse of that name was called. Some
of the Featherstone horses are being raced
at New Orleans.
In California there Ia q new plunger, a
young Frenchman, who. it Ii said, is heir
to a millions dollars. His name Is Paul
REQUISITE.
Big Ben now a frequent winner at New
Orleans at short odds. won his first race at
100 to 1. 1t was one day last summer at
Washington Park Frank Shaw had or
ganized syndicate to bet on the racer and
he won. 1t is said in sporting circles that
Doc STREET. has hundreds OF subscribers
who regularly wager on his horses when he
sends the telegram which suggests that he
likes their chances.
If the Handicapped puts anything less than
100 pounds on Dick Welles that colt will
win the $50. 900 worlds fair handicap at St.
Louis in the opinion Of a western expert
Others mentioned fayorably by this expert
are John A. brakes Runnels and M. P.
Mattingly's Old Stone. w. 8. Vosburgh will
handicap the eastern entries and Ed Ma
goun will allot the weights to the western
entries to the worlds fair handicap
1t Is said that the gate receipts of the
Inglesde track on Christmas day were S1O.-
900. The chief feature Of the day, the
Christmas handicap, was worth So 600 to the
winner. which was Walter Jennings
Proper, ridden by Jack" Martin, who also
rode two other winners on the same day.