Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
RAINS INTERFERE
WITH THE RACING
Charter Oak Meeting Declared
Off-Big Purses Provided
at Columbus.
By L. D. Sale.

By L. D. Sale.
| Light harness racing was greatly inter
! fered with during the week past by fire.
quent rains At the Charter oak track.
Hartford. Conn. the downpour was so con
tlnuous that the management was COM
| PEELED to declare the meeting off thus
causing a heavy financial loss to horsemen
| VINO had gathered at that point, to Mr.
| Welsh. owner of the track, and disappoint-
| ment to thousands of patrons who had
| gathered there to witness the classic
events that annually take place over the
| historic course. Some of the horsrmen
will wait for the New York state fair,
! which begins at Syracuse September $ and
| runs four days. Others will go to Column
| bus. Ohio. to try for the 500 900 in purses
| and stakes which have been hung up by the
| association and others Racing Will begin
| September 10 and end September - giving
Two weeks of firSt-ClasS sport. as some OF
| the best horses in the United States will
participate in the meeting
l. The leading features of the Columbus
meet are the Board of Trade 2o7 pace for IA
purse of $1,000; the Hotel Hartman 2l4
| pace, for purse of 5000; the Columbus
2o9 trot, for a purse of $1,000: the Holster
columbus Breweries ZIG trot, for a purse
| of $1,000: the Kentucky Stock Farm purs,.
Tor three-year-old trotters. for a purse OF
10000: the King 2.o6 pace. for a purse of
$4,000, and the Merchants 224 trot for "A
purse of $1,000. The Kentucky Stock Farm
three year-od pace. for a purse of s. 300
| and the Horse Review Futurity, for "A purse
OF $1,000, will also be pulled off at the
meeting. The smallest purse hung up at
Columbus is $l.2oo. and the card for each
day calls for fast time. The amount of
money hung up-SlGO.o 0O-is the largest that
horsemen have competed for on any single
| course the present season. With the end of
the meet will be rung down the curtain
on the grand circuit for 1907. When this
act shall have been performed there will
have passed into turf history the most phe-
nomenal season of extreme speed since the
time Imported Messenger, with energy and
spirits unabated by his six weeks ocean
voyage. and rejoiced at the sight Of land,
dragged his attendants down the gangplank
al Philadelphia the latter part of the eight
zenith century. After Columbus the cry will
be, ION to lexington" where will be held
ten-day meeting. commencing October s
and ending on the 18th of the month.
While grand circuit horsemen have been
having their troubles during the week past
local lovers of the light harness horse have
been enjoying good sport at Brightwood,
and Timonium. Md. The Brightwood Labor
day meet comprised a card of holly con-
tested events and the attendance was one
OF the largest that has convened at the
track this season. The fields. except in the
free ALL were unusually large consid-
ering the fact that local horses had en-
gagements elsewhere. and nothing occurred
TO mar the pleasure of the afternoon. except
the diatory action of some drivers in bring
ing their horses to the post the reprehensi-
bic driving of Howard .. by Mr.. Hillerary,
and the mistake made by the owner of
Bedworth, jr., that his horse was not dis
tauced in the first heat of the free-for all.
The beSetting sin of the Brightwood track,
from time almost immemoral, has been the
tardy manner in which some drivers have
come to the post, and Starter McCauly re-
ceived the hearty appreciation of long
suffering public Monday last when he in
hicted fines on two of the most efficient
and popular drivers in the District for de-
laying the start in one Of the events.
The light harness sport at the Timonium
fair during the week excellent,
although the track was heavy, which pre-
cluded fast time. Washington and Mont
gomery county were represented in the
racing events by the cream of their stables.
f. F. Hall had entered in the lists the good
mares Cartcita and Gallant Maid. Charles
C. Waters of Pleasant Fields Kinslee and
Montgomery Boy, while Lee s. Dorsey
tempted fate with the dun mare. Edna G.
1t was Montgomery Boys first start for
upward Of three years in a race. and he
proved himself good enough in a large
field in the 2:3O trot Tuesday to march to
a record of 2:25h IN the third heat. thereby
cutting his record eleven seconds, and
giving his sire, Monocacy, 2:15A. new 30
performer The race. however. was cap
tured by Tearolaine. The Buttonwood farm
mare Bill found a foeman worthy of her
steel on the same day, she getting third
Gen. Mack. the winner of the race. was
in straight heats after dropping the first
to the bay geldng John A.
Gen. Mack, the winner of the race was
sold In Washington two years ago to some
ga ST h.
ardSon for $500 since which time he
has made good in nearly every event in
which he has started. Henry Copperthite
liked him, but demurred at the price, and
a good horse was lost to the District. Gen.
Mack is by Ashland Wilkes, sire of John r.
Gentry, 2:OO14. and his dam by the great
race horse sire. Robert McGregor, sire of
Crescius, 2:02A, champion trotting stallion.
Edna G. in this event finished fifth. just
outside the money. Wednesday keity did
better. as Dillon Queen. the Buttonwooi
farm candidate. tramped all over her field
in the 2:10 pace.
MI Waters Kinslee, 2.o2A, won the first
heat in the 2.22 trot in the opening event
Wednesday in the slow time of 2.251a, while
Mr. Halls Caricita. by reason of he bruis-
ing miles at Rockville the week previous,
could get better than third place in the
summary. Thursday upward OF 10000 per-
sons gathered to view the fair and witness
the racing The Virginia stallion King
Redwood 21S4. carried off first hono-s in
the o19 trot. no local horses being of his |
class present to compete with him.
A five days meeting will begin at Pros |
pect Park near Baltimore, Tuesday with |
fair attachment. The fair assoc alton |
offers in purses $4,000. Twelve events are |
scheduled, and in each event there will be |
offered purse of S4OO September II Will |
begin the Easton, Nd fair The purses
IN the harness events are not, on the aver |
age AS large those offered by the Pros |
pect Park management. Only two purses |
as high as 800 @ offered for competing |
horsemen, and only three 800 purses. The |
80 pace September Il calls for $500 the |
ODD class trOt Septembe: Is calls for |
S4OO; the 2.29 trot September 10 calls for |
$500; the 212 pace and free-f or-all trot for
500; the go pace the same day calls
for 5000 and the 224 pace Friday, the
last day calls for $500