Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-05
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.

At meeting of the National Steeplechase
and Hunt Association held in New York
yesterday the following stewards We're
elected for three-year term: ]. e. Co'wdin,
II. s Page, Thomas Clyde and S. s. How
land.
The new steeplechase course at Belmont
Park has been completed. 1t is in the form
of a figure g. and is confined TO the infeld
proper.
John Hynes will handle Ostrich and the
other horses to be raced by Thomas Sexton
this season. The horses are now at the
Hynes place in Connecticut.
An evidence of the way the Gravesend
race course is being crowded by the growth
of Brooklyn is in the fact that w. c. Daily
has sold his place which adjoins the track
property. The plot will be cut up into build
ing lots by real estate concern.
OF the seventy-seven candidates entered
for the Crescent City Derby, to be run In
March, twenty-three have been declared
out Ftfty-four entries remain elsfnie IN,
creasing the stakes by 1880 which added
to the $40 entry fees and the 5000 added
by the Crescent City Jockey Club, brinss
the value Of the stakes to date up to s.. $50
An additional payment OF SO will become
due on February 10, and starters will pay
SloO on top OF that SO the total value of the
stake on derby day will be between $1,000
and sl0.0Go.
County Jockey Club to two parcels of land
adjoining its plant a Aqueduct. One con-
sists OF twenty-five and p half acres and
the other of thirteen acres The land was
acquired for the purpose OF facilitating i'm
proyemeuts. 1t Is only a question of time
when new grandstand will lie built. The
biggest strip of land purchased is north of
the present grandstand, and extends out to-
ward the Rockaway Beach railroad tracks.
The new stand will be further up the
stretch than the old one.
The name of Fills among the entries for
the big mile and a quarter specials this
year has caused an inquiry rs to where he
came from He is an English bred horse
by acknowledgements IL and five years old.
He is nominated by Frank Starr. who
brought him from Russia recently to race in
this country. Fills will be trained by Frank
Frisbee who has been abroad for two
years The career of the horse Will be
watched with interest, as he is evidently
we'll thought of by his owner and trainer
King Henry is another horse not recognized
! by racegoers He was 2 two-year-old in
! the late Captain s. S. Browns stable last
season. but did not go TO the post He is
| well bred, being by Sir Dixon-Sallie of Ma
varre
| In the Broadway paddock yesterday the
| entries for the big handicaps were the one
| subject OF conversation. There was general
satisfaction in the way the stakes had filed
| particularly in the matter of class. That
| James r. Keene's great colt Sysonby would
| have the post OF honor at top weight was
agreed on in the main. but there was quite
/ a divergence Of views as to which would
follow him In the opinion of the official ham
dieapper. Some maintained that Hermis
would be next in line. while others thought
| Brady,s Oiseau or 3. r. Thomas Hta1wart
would be nearest to the Melton colt IN tho
matter Of weight. This viii FURNISH food for
tdiscuagi0n until the WaaEats arc announced