The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-28

Bemidji. Sept. 2S.-The Bemidji
race meet began today. and from
present Indications. it will be one of
the best, If not the best. pulled of in
Minnesota this year Secretary Nc
.Avoy reports thirty-two entries to
date, a larger number than can be
boosted by any country meet which
has been held in the state during the
summer and fall
The free-for-all race Sunday will be
Il big event, and large number of
horses with records have been enter
ed. The list includes: DIR. Mum"
of Addison. N. D.. who has a mark of
2:12: Billy Boogs" Of Minneapolis:
Little Jim;" Mixer" Rupert"
Baby LOU" who won the big race at
Park Rapids; and Little Tim" of Du-
luth.
The running races will be especial
ly good and one has been arranged
for every day. The entries are COM
plete in this class and no more can
be taken.
The following is the program for
the races here, including the classes
and purses:
Friday, Sept. y.
2:l5 class, pace or trot. $500
NJ Glass. pace or trot............ 900
L. mile running race. SO
Saturday. Sept. %.
2:o5 class trot and 2:2S class
pace ................... $500
2::0 class pace or trot........... 800
L. mile running race. SO
Sunday, Sept. 30.
Free-for-All $500
2:35 class. pace or trot. ....... 800
l-2 mile running race. 50
The methods OF American trainers
still arouse the interest of English
racing. Ranger. in the Illustrated
Sporting News, in writing of the WAYS
of the trainers from over seas says:
They are hard workers, early risers,
clever stablemen. A visitor to down
or heath many find them out at this
season by a. M. or earlier since they
love the first GOODNESS OF the morning,
its beneficent dew and its generally
wholesome influences. Horses thus
worked" are not asked to do too
much galloping. They are. perhaps,
Kept out for as long as two hours
and a half, walking and pottering
about or picking grass after a neces-
sary canter or so. Some are stripped
and rubbed down in the open air
it must be delightful experience
ere returning to their stable That
seems to be a sort of specially with
the foreign" trainers, who believe
in a consistent out-of-door treatment
as far as practicable; and, judging by
results. their argument is sound ell
cugh. They are not beaten by a want
OF fitness when they bet A feature
CT the American trainers practice is
that they bestow special attention
and study to the question of horses
food. More hot mashes are given to
them than are prescribed by the Eng
fish code, which generally provides
for worm mash on Saturday nights
as being adequate for all practical
purposes. Three or four such feeds
each week may be conceded by the
foreigners and any trouble in rela-
ton to securing is apparently sur
mounted with ease"
That determined effort is being
made to drive Danny Maher, the great
American jockey, from the English
turf is certain. That it will be unsuc-
cessful seems to be equally certain.
Makers skill. his perfect honesty and
fair riding have made him immensely
popular with the race-going public,
and have made him powerful friends
who are able to protect him against
his enemies, who are numbered prin-
cipally among that small class, which
is steadily losing influence, who are
Jealous of all things American. At
the recent meeting at York. Maher ac-
cidentally bumped the favorite in the
race and put him out of the running
Danny was reprimanded by the
stewards of the meeting. His enemies
seized the opportunity and insisted
on more drastic punishment at the
hands Of the jockey club. A further
investigation was held and Maher
was exonerated. The decision OF the
Jockey club gave very general salts
faction.
New York, Sept. 2S.-In all his
years on the turf-and they are not
few-D. C. Johnson, called by his
friends 'Davy," who frequently has
startled the sporting world by his
meteoric plunging, never has had
day such as fell to his lot at Grave
send Saturday, when he bet on six
races and won each bet, his winning
reaching the total of $4,000.
1t was matter of speculation as
to whether this record had ever been
equalled by better before. There
have been innumerable instances of
great sums won on single races, but