The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-15
Providence TO Have Seep|schase
With Runners.
Willie Gibbs M Gets Tony Moran at R. |.
A. c. Tomorrow Night

The Narragansett Breeders association
which raced so successfully here last
summer. celebrates the new year by the
announcement that next season IT will
hold two meetings; that IL viii Increase
the number of it's future stakes from 10
20 l6 and that steeplechaslng VIII be
strong feature in its program,
A steeplechase course was laid out In
the late autumn. and only the building
OF the jumps themselves remains To be
done I'm the midsummer. This branch OF
the racing will be conducted under the
auspices OF the National Steeplcchase
and Hunt association
As the steeplechase course at Nara
gansett park has been laid out. both
the water jump and the Liverpool will be
Immediately I'm front OF the grand stand
and the clubhouse. The horses Will come
down the field almost diagonally from
the three-furlong pole, flying the water
practically head on, and then square
away for the Liverpool which will be
opposite the entrance from tho paddock
10 the main track. Their evil be three
Jumps I'm the field running parallel with
the back stretch, so that the horses will
go over both water and the Liverpool at
least twice I'm every race.
The four meetings on the second cir
cult, which In all probability will pre-
cede that at Narragansett park, are dis
;lnguished for the recognition which they
give 20 timber-toppers. They are Ben
nings, Baltimore. Toronto and Buffalo
each OF them catering 20 this popular
branch OF the sport A consequence OF
this will be that at Narragansett park
all the best In the division of steeple-
chasers racing at these tracks Will meet
TO do battle, and when they are thor
oughly tit will meet those which will
come from the New York or the Metro
politan circuit, as IL has been called. The
prizes will be OF sufficient value 10 call
out the very best that there is and
Providence will. SO far as steeplechasing
IS concerned, take rank with the fore
most anywhere in the east.
I'm tact, Providence last year was very
much in advance. In the character and
calbre of It's horses. of what Is usually
expected from the second circuit Bragg,
who won the $500 Rhode Island handi-
cap. went right to Sheepshead and won
at a mile and quarter. and then went
TO Gravesend and won cracking good
race at mile and a half. Au Revoir,
who was besven a head at Providence
by Bragg, went 10 Brighton and won
two stake races. Oarsman, who was sec
ond I'm the Rhode Island and who after
ward won ono race, went to Saratoga and
won there at % to l.
SuUlclency, VINO, next 10 consistent,
was perhaps the best hlly at Provi-
dence, won late at Saratoga, Sleeps
head, Gravesend, Brighton and Belmont
Park. Ruth w, whose colors were low
cred to those of Consistent at Providence,
was returned good winner at Sara
toga.
Don't Ask Me, who performed well at
Narragansett park, beat Il rare good
field on the turf at Sheepshead, and
then went on and won at Gravesend,
while Diamond Flush, who won an adj
mrable sprint captured one OF the fall
lightweight handicaps at Belmont park,
while Cederstrome, her stable mate,
equally made good at the same meeting.
Last year Providence was an expert
ment. This year is goes out to the turf
world as an enterprise. clean, honorable
and successful, with larger stakes, more
valuable purses for fiat races and a
steeplechase course that will compare
favorably with the best IN New York.