Evening star., 1909-05-16
READV|LLE OFFERS
MANY RICH PURSES
Hiqh-Class TrotterS Will Com
pete at Popular
Track.


received an excellent entry list for both
Of its hand1caps and the classic Massa- :.
chusetts stake, and trotting horsernen ali
over the country. particularly IN the east
have many reasons for congratulation.
Compared with tho general average OF
entry lists received throughout the grand
circuit for stakes which are already
closed, Readville has Jared real well, al
though. considering the amount onered'
the liberal conditions for the handicaps
and the great chance OF many horses WIN
ming q portion Of the big purses. the list
should have been much larger:
A. ]. welch, the present head OF the
famous track. did right well. judged py
the results. in adopting the plans OF his
secretary. Charles NJ. Jewett, who. SINCE
his experience with the $4,000 stake last
year, has constantly advocated an entry
fee less than the 1 per cent charged In
1905
For this years stake OF $4,000 Tor
trotters the total entry fee asked ~ Soos.
or q shade less than 1 per cent. while Tor
the $4,000 stake for PAGERS the amount
asked as entrance fee is $145. or % less
than / per cent. .
The fact that fifteen horses in each d.
vision win q portion Of the purse-the
smallest winner in the trotting stake win
ming more than double its entrance
money, and the PAGER its fee plus so
surely proved very attractive to owners,
while other changes offer fairer cnance
to all starters and puts them upon basis
Of equity which is the most attractive
feature Of the handicap system OF racing.
No doubt the most admirable feature
of ReadviIle's handicaps ts the cnance II
entrance fee to contest for the main
event, instead of being sent to the stable
or barred from any kind OF g show after
preliminary race for q small amount
or for no money at all.
A horse which by Ill luck. n1ishap or
some misfortune might be ruled out In
q preliminary may have under the Read
Vile conditions g fair chance to land
among the winners At any rate, an
owner who "anteS' up the entrance fee,
low the fee, will thus have the full sat-
isfaction Of seeing his horse race for the
highest amount possible to win and q
fair chance for what he has paid for
from the start.
The instalIment- plan payments asked
for the Readville handicaps are another
liberal as well as fair feature, to such
an extent that every nominator can at
ford to stay in, barring accidents to his
horse, up to the close OF tho fourth pay
ment and then make tho final, which Is
the largest amount asked, when he finds
that his entry is fairly and properly
handicapped.
To keep a trotter eligible for chance
500, with fifteen horses as winners, up
to The time when the entire field Is
handicapped and the result announced
Will cost nominatOr seven-tenthS of one
per cent of the entire purse. plus s.. or
total of $3.50, which In turf speculation
parlance is a 6O-to-1 shot, as there is a
chance Of winning $4,000, and almost a
3-to-1 shot If horse wins the lowest
amount. or finishes fifteenth.
Under these conditions If q man has
nominated his horse for the real pur-
pose Of racing him, which, no doubt, he
has by the first payment Of $40, and If
his horse stays sound and trains right
he will be absolutely foolish not to stay
In up to the final contest. as even after
making the fifth payment it Is still q
45-to-1 bet II he wins and better than
to If his entry is the fifteenth horse
In the race.
The same figures practically apply to
the pacing division; consequently while
the entries for the uotting division are
much less than last year. 1t will not be
bad guess to state that when the
field lines up for the final contest there
will be more than thirty-f1ve horses: as
was the case In the ffty-thOuSand-dOllar
event Of last August.
or the eighty-three horses named for
the trotting handicap. more than half.
or forty-four, come from Massachusetts
dHu new 1OTks at tN0 Tdl0 OIL twenty Blk
and eighteen, respectively. Each state
has named one Of the two fastest horses
by the records. namely. Sonoma Girl.
2O5A. and Oro, 2.05A. the latter being
named by William Kelley Of Brooklyn.
The former Is as well known. being
owned by Miss Lotta Crabtree. who is
as much Of a New Yorker as She Is
resident Of Atlantic, Mass.
Three trotters which won money In the
lfty-thousand-d dollar stake last year are
again entered for the coming handicap.
namely. San Francisco, Ralph Wick and
Peter Balta, which were third, fourth
and sixth, respectively.
OF the 124 horses originally named in
last years handicap thirty-five started.
and among these the following will again
face the starter next August: Sonoma
Girl. Uhlan. Daniel. Genteel H.. Teasel.
Peter Balta, Ralph Wick, Munic. Jay
Kay and San Francisco, all Of which
the final contest, with the single excep-
ton of Nunic.