Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
THE SPEEDWAY IS
MUCH IMPROVED
Local Track is Now Good
Enough for the Best Trot-
tiers and PAGERS.
Experiment in Breeding to Be
Tried by the Government
in the Philippines.
By L. D. Sale.

The speedway committee took hold of the
new century course early last week. and,
with the aid of Percy Crawford and a
number of teams men and numerous wag
onloads of cinders have worked wonders.
The track is now good enough for Dan
Patch or Sweet Marie to race over. Tenta-
tive dates for matinee performances have
leen set for December H. Is and %. The
classes decided on are 2.4O trot or pace, 2.25
trot or pace and a free-for-all pace. Nearly
all the best horses in the District are ex-
pected to enter in the several classes.
Persons who desire to engage in the events
named will do well to bear in mind that
hoppled horses are barred.
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There was plenty doing on the speed
way during the week. Mon-ay Everett
Taylor had out Forney, 2.19k, and stepped
him three fast miles. Aubrey L. Clark |
was up again behind the sorrel gelding
Treeko. 2.21A. and was chased out several
times by the gray gelding Empire Wilkes.
210. George L. GoOdacre was UP behind |
Harry Madden, 221A, and Mr.. Mitchell |
sent Edna Wilkes. 2.2S down the line at
the trot at surprising gait she is
naturally a PAGER. Madden showed himself
to be in fine form and is expected to make
great showing in the 2 Is pace December
II. Tuesday Albert Harry exhibited to
the public for the first time very. hand
some and large-siZed three-year-old gray
flly by Ford & Grahams Alto Bell the
latter by Daybell, a son of Palo Alto, 2:0SA.
The flly is q good actor and excited a
good deal of admiration. Harry Snyder
made very good impression behind Mary
Tracy and drove her a number of fast
heats. B. F. McCaully held the reins over
his matched team. Fashion and Rustic, and
gave exhibitions of horsemanship that are |
rarely seen in this bailiwick: for, in the
matter of double bitches. Mr.. McCaully is |
master reinsman. Harry Bowling, hold |
ing the reins over the Electioneer FLY |
Sweet Bells, carried the pair down the |
stretch several times at a lively pace
Everett Taylor was out again., this time
behind his fast sorrel PAGER Everett T., |
and gave him three fast heats. In one
heat Mr.. Mitchell Joined him at the quarter
pole with Edna Wilkes and led him home.
the little pacing mare making a sensational |
finish of 1t. Mary BradStreet also
again in evidence and did her best to beat
everything in sight, and came pretty near
doing it. 49,!
The Brightwood management anticipated
giving a weeks running meeting, to begin
Monday or Tuesday next, but 1t appears
reckoned without it's host. as the jockey
club refused to license a meeting of the
kind proposed. AS any horses that have
raced at Benning would be outlawed should
they now race over Brghtwood track, if
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it must be given by horses that are barred
from running over the tracks of the jockey
club.
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Thomas Cannon of Brightwood has man.
aged to gather together quite a string Of
promising youngsters. and In spite of the
advanced stage of the season is making
satisfactory speed He has driven Harry
Duleys Mabel Wilkes a mile in PAS, Mr..
Coltons Happy Hooligan a mile in 2:44
and quarter in thirty-eight seconds; a
three-year-oid PAGER by Onycha Wilkes a
quarter in thirty-eight seconds, and another
three-year-old by the same sire miles at a
very satisfactory gait at the trot. Mr..
Cannon devotes his entire time nowadays
to developing youngsters and his stable Is
rapidly increasing In numbers.
Mr. Charles c. Waters, owner Of Pleas
ant Fields stock farm, Germantown, Nd,
the home of Kinster, 2.14A, and Kinslee,
222A, writes The Star under recent date
that he has number of young trotters at
the farm that look very enticing to him as
future purse winners. One that he thinks
highly of Is by a son Of the great Baron
Wilkes, 2.1S. and out Of full sister to
Kinster. Another one by the $50, 900 Dare
Devil, 200, dam Black Shrew by Dictator,
is showing up in fine shape and promises
to keep up the reputation of the family
from which he descends. The Kidd, 2.124,
Is being wintered at Pleasant Fields He Is
owned by Mr.. Conner of Harper's Ferry
and Mr.. Waters says he expects to race the
horse next season. Kinster Is reported to
be in excellent condition and the season
Of 1907 promises to be his best.
Ptscarra, 214A, arrived at the farm from
Philadelphia last week and will be bred to
kinster. Mr.. Waters is at present break
Kinslee, 2.22A, and Kinstress 2.O92, and
he says he moves like the kind that get
the money when 1t Is hung UP. The season
of 1905 proved to be great season for
the Kinsters. In addition to Kinslee and
Kinstress, ex-Paymaster J. A. Smiths Kin
nett by Anster, started several times on
eastern circuits and was never outside the
money. The filly is a three-year-old Her
dam, Josie S., by Cuyler Clay, was mare
well known in Washington and was very
speedy. Gen. Smith is again breeding a
thing to interest him. The call of the
wild" drew Mr.. Waters last Saturday to
the woods of North Carolina, where he ex-
poets to remain week.
The best does not seem too good for the
japanese, as some c the nlikado's repre-
sentatives are again in this country for
the purpose of purchasing stations and
mares of light harness and thoroughbred
blood to cross with their native and i'm
ported stock. Gen. Pershing, who recently
returned from Japan, is highly impressed
with the progress the japanese have made
in improving their horse kind. The i'm |
perial pastures. next to those of Russia are |
the largest probably in the world they !
being 125 miles long and 100 miles wide |
and have an abundance of grass running |
water and timber In ancient times the |
borders of the pastures were fortified In |
order to prevent raids from the tribes that |
were driven north by the japanese when |
they conquered the country |
The pastures are located fifty miles from |
Toxic around the head of the bay. Before |
communication with the United States was |
had the japanese authorities purchased |
their horses in Persia, India and Arabia |
This probably accounts for the small size |
of what is now know the native Japa- |
nese horse, which is of pony build and
very tough Gen. Pershing says, according |
to Japanese authority, better horses We're |
originally put into the imperial pastures
than were the Godoiphin and barley Ara
bans, the progenitors of the modern thor
oughbred. 1t was the horses from the i'm
al mas w rfa1 no To