The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-04-27

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Breeders Will Nominate Many Fast
Ones For the Different Events--Laros
I Purses at Detroit and Cleveland.
The stake programs for the fonr
western meetings OF the grand circuit
Kalamazoo, Detroit, Cleveland and
I Columbus have been announced ahd
total up IN the nelghborhood Of SlQ0
600. There have been few changes ~
the stake events from those Of last
year, the most material one being the
change Of the $4,000 trotting stake IN
Kalamazoo from the 214 70 the 2.1l
class, which win let in lot of horses
which have previously campaigned and
/ faken Id records on the mile tracks.
All or the talk about radical change
In the conditions Of the Chamber Of
4 Commerce 5000 stake, which is tile
pacing feature Of the Detroit blue rlb
bon meeting, c5G1 TO naught Back
in the middle nineties, when D J. Cam
pau was the controlling spirit of the
Detroit meeting, as he was of the
/ entire grand circuit he inaugurated
this stake. making 1t, like the trotting
/ classic, the NJ and Nj for The 2:24 class,
which practically means an event for
green horses. A lot Of pressure was
brought 70 bear on campau TO change
I the class Of both events. letting fiji fast
I er record horses. but as far as the "
and NJ was concerned the Detroit ey
ecntive tnrued a deaf ear 70 his advls-
ers
The NJ. and Nj. was his pet stake. II
4 was he who first announced it IN 1889,
In the days OF the high wheel sulky.
and IT has become the classic stake Of
4 harness horse turf. Campau has now
passed, and new hands are governing
/ the destinies Of the organization.
Last season a strong effort was
made to induce the managers Of the
meeting 10 change the class or the
! Chamber OF Commerce stake TO a slow
er class in order to bar out the little
I stallion George Gano, who had shown
( that he would walk away with first
4 money If he got to the post fiji Al
Detroit people stood bg their guns and
i refused 10 put George Gano outside
+ the breastworks AS was expected,
he came to the post as fit as fiddle
and won of the reel, as he did in all
4 but one OF his starts on the grand cir
I cult
When the anti-hobble agitation was
! at its height early in the winter II
was semioficially announced that the
4 class Of the Chamber Of Commerce
I would be changed back to the time
4 honored 2.24 and also that horses wear
ing the submarine harness would not
find the welcome sign on the mat
when The entries were being made
in other words. Chat the h0bblers
would be barred Then Secretary
( MoQne arrived on the scene, and there
4 was Immediately 4 change in senti-
ment. the New England man persnad-
I ing the Detroit management that bar
ring the hobbies was not the thing
fer the Chamber OF Commerce. SO
there was no surprise at the recent
announcement that the event would.
as usual, be for the 2:l3 class and
that The number OF harnesses which q
PAGER wore would not affect his social
standing as far as try at the $1,000
stake money was concerned This
means d larger field and IN old fash
ioned horse race. but the opponents of
the hobble will tell YOU that II viii
not tend 10 improve tire breed Of
horses
As usual, the M. and NJ. Is a $4,000
event for 2.24 trotters There i no
other feature Of the harness horse
game which does as much to keep up
the price Of green trotters as the n
aud Al, and il is a testimonial to the
wisdom Of Campau in refusing 70 MI
low Ii to be changed TO a class for
faster record horses.
+ The other two early closing events
for the Detroit meeting are for $1,000
each and are FOR oil and four-year-
Old trotters In addition 70 these there
& win he the three futurities promoted
hy lie Horseman events for three and
two year OLD trotters and three-year-
Old pneers. which aggregate $4,000 iii
purse money
The cry raised IN Detroit az the time
IL the assignment Of dates by the
grand clrcuy stewards that the fact
haf the $lO00u stake at Kalamazoo
would be raced the week before tho
NJ and NJ would rob thelatter event Of
4 lot Of interest seems & be without
grounds. III there Was any real dam
ger 81 this the Kalamazoo manage
ment has dispelled it by changing the
class OF The event to oil A BIC share
Of the NJ and NJ. trotters viii not be
starters IN an event where they will
have "a meet, right at the start Of the
grand circuit, old and tried campaign
ers.
The Celery City association offers a
$4,000 event for 2:15 trotters. and this
will he liable to catch more Of the NJ.
and N. candidates than the richer event
La any event il will serve to split them
u.,. The $4,000 pacing stake at Kala-
mazoo Is FOR the same class as the