Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
GOOD MEET At
SEATTLE ASSURED
HORSES AND PURSES ARE OF
SOME WORTH
Annual Summer Racing Season In the
Northwest Has Grown Into Son1e-
thing Approaching Metropolis
tan Form-Notes Of Turf

Brilliant in prospects for the most
successful summer meeting ever held
on the coast, the, Seattle season of
racing opened tat the Meadows yester-
day. Thousands of lovers of the sport
attended the inaugural days doings and
for their benefit horses of more than
mediocre worth performed.
Two or three years ago the Seattle
meeting was considered as a joke and
a place where the horseman whose
stable didn't stand a chance anywhere
else could pick up enough change to
tide him over the summer and pay the
feed bills. 1t was the rankest kind of a
sch, meet and none but the poorer
class of owners ever thought of the
northwest as profitable field.
But now all this Is changed. Last
season the Meadows management con-
Quoted meet which would be a credit
to any place, and the sport was in
stantly put on a firm footing. Many OF
the horsemen who had raced at Ascot
and Oakland, and who failed to stay
on the coast. expressed themselves as
foolish because they had shipped east,
and promised to remedy matters this
season.
And they apparently have, for the
stables occupying stalls at the Seattle
track this summer are not of the poorer
sort by any means. The purses have
increased in consequence, and Seattle
race goers yesterday attended the OPEN
ing of what will undoubtedly grow into
a great summer event.
The money to be given to horsemen
by the Seattle management will be or
what Is almost a metropolitan scale.
Several races for purses which will run
into four figures have been scheduled,
and daily purses and selling races will
net at least 1925 each to the winning
owner
After the Denver meeting, which is
now being run, is over the Meadows
will get great many of the thorough
breds now racing at Overland park in
the Colorado city. While not much
class seems to be chasing the coin at
Overland, there are many good platers
among those present and they will be
welcomed in the northwest.
keniIworth Season On
Kenilworth's season is now on in full
blast, but from the looks of the form
chart 1t will not be as successful as
those of other years. The class of
horses now performing at the Buffalo
course is below the average, and the
Jockeys who sport silk are not exactly
of the first rank.
Many of the boys who learned the
game at Ascot are gracing the pigskin
at the New York state course. Carroll,
Mcdaniel, Hogg, Grand and Brown are
all winning race once in while
while Lycurgus,. who was apprenticed
to Red Walker at Oakland last winter
is also on hand. Bullman is showing
up occasionally, but he is not doing
much.
Willie Dugan, after winning the Sub
urban, also put in appearance at Ken
llworth, and at first was expected to
remain throughout the season. This
will hardly occur, as Dugan has an
offer from New York which he can
hardly refuse, and he may be expected
to return to the metropolitan circuit in
a few days.
Red Walker won the first race of the
Buffalo season with Stanley Fay, a.
Canopus colt, which made his debut at
Oakland this year. Lycurgus was in
the saddle and the Walker trick won
handily from eleven other 2-year-olds
over the five-furlong course, the price
being as good as skies.
Reports of Boots DurnelI
Boots DurneH is reported as wishing
to take shot at the game in France
again, and for the purpose has been
buying fancy yearlings by the score. |
If Durnell didn't get enough of the
Il iSilcu ldyouL liiS lttSL lllile ne lIleu IL
he must be a glutton for punishment |
and able to stand any kind of a strain.
Sower- Doing Well
Major" Sewers is booking at La
tonia, and thus far in the season he has |
collected about $500 from the foolish
public. The Whistling Kid, as Sewers |!
is now called. makes the prices for the |
entire ring, and is considered the big |
penciler of the Cincinnati brigade.
Jake in Right
Jake Hoffman is getting much better
notices from the Cincinnati papers than |
he did on the coast. He'is said to be
in top form, and but few kicks over
the way he sends them away are heard |