The Washington times., 1906-12-09
BurleW-O'Neil Combination
Winning Good Races-Mc-
Cafferty Leading East
ern Invaders.

! NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec S-IJp 10
/ saturday last number Of people We're
! inclined To doubt the wisdom of the
/ step taken by the Crescent city Jockey
! Club when IL raised the admission fee
| TO the Fair Grounds from 81 TO $50
Foremost among these We're the book
makers. who pay 500 each for the prIvi-
| lege Of laying the odds, besides sub
scribing daily the amount of the sixth
4 race on the card. Naturally. these men
want an overlooking attendance with
plenty OF money in sight, for 1t is a
/ bookmakers' axiom that If you don't
handle the money you can't win. d"
Neither OF these required conditions
were complied with in the first Sax days
or the meeting, except. perhaps on
Thanksgiving Day. and even then the
holiday crowd did not appear to loosen
up TO the extent which would be ordI-
narily looked for.
On Saturday things changed for the
better I'm both of these respects. .The
New Orleans public is one which lis
pretty well educated in racing Affairs.
due in great measure 70 the promi-
nence accorded TO racing IN their city
during the past two seasons through
They wanted TO get something of line
on the ponies" before they opened their
purse strings. and as the horses had
run very well TO form from the open
ing day they We're encouraged 10 specu-
late. The attendance was good bott
in number and class, and the rlls, in
price Of the entrance fee has come 10
stay
At meeting Of the City Park Jockey
Clubs directors on Saturday night il
was decided TO follow the lead OF the
older club and make the admission $50
for men and 800 for women to their
meeting. which begins on Monday, De-
cember 10.
BuIlew-0'Neil Victories.
Racing up TO date has served TO show
the strength OF BurIew and O'NeiI's
stable. which includes such well known
performers as Belmere. JuggIer, Gid,
Fantastic. Reno. and others Getting
down early, and shipping well. all the
horses in Burlew's barn look we'll and
are ready 10 race, and that trainer has
improved the opportunity.
He has annexed the two principal
stakes run up 10 date. the Inaugural
and the Thanksgiving Handicap, the
the aid OF Juggler, the brown son of
Hamburg, which Burlew acquired for a
mere song. some s7OO or $500. from Harry
Payne Whitney. Juggler is an unsound (
horse and won the Thanksgiving Handi- I
cap on his class. as it is practically /
impossible to get him TO his best.
BelmeTe Good Mudder
When a two-year-old in the barn of /
John Rogers. Juggler was considered j /
colt and second only 10 Bur
gomaster. Belmere, also more or less of /
a cripple came out OF the Thanksgiving
Handicap very badly. pulling up dead f.
lame. and If Nieol had not humaneIy
pulled him out of the race. when he /
found the horse weakening it is pro-
babie that that would have been the end /
OF Belmere's racing career.
As it IS. Burlew may patch him up
well enough to win a race on the soft
tracks which are bound to come short
ly in the Crescent City, for Belmere is
notoriously good in the mud. With Gid.
who has turned out remarkab b,y good
Investment for tie partnership. Burlew
and O'NeH have won three races. all OF
them very easily. Sir Toddington. an
other JWO-year-Old. has, however, fail
ed them twice. This horse viii also be
better suited when the mud comes. His
feet and ankles are not in the best OF
shape, and being a very heavy topped
horse he is hard to train
GlamOr Star of Meeting.
OF the other Eastern stables. A. C.
has won three straight races
with Glamor a Belmont bred hlIy. by
HastinEs-Glory, which last summer. was
an occupant OF Jack Joyuer's stable
at Sheepshead Bay. The soft nature OF
the Fair Grounds track, which this year
has been heavily top dressed with sand.
has just suited GlamOr, who, with her
quick stridins. collected way of soiag.
is at home on a heavy track ]. was a
very pretty race between Glamor and
the fast Western FLY, CoHoquy on Sat
Irday last. in the Crescent City Stakes.
bat before the end of the i've and a haIf
the Hastings hlly had clearly
asserted her superiority. Glamor looks
bigger and stouJer than she did duringl
the summer and is likely TO be very use
lul TO McCa1erty, who is father-in-law
10 Frank O'Neill.
". H. Snyder. who. in addition to his