Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-03
Held Out the Weights.

1 given out It's entries weights
| suppressed the weights until the after
noon of the races. yet this measure was
the next move undertaken by the VIOLA
tile Manager Pons. That It curbed in
measure the activities of the pooiroom
men is beyond question.
/ But it had g retroactive effect which
! the management had not calculated upon.
Many of the bigger form players found
! il impossible to enjoy the sport when
| they We're confronted with an entry list
with ''blind" weights.
One humorous variation or the I'M
broglo which has set the turf world
| talking, was the publication on the Of
| fetal program of the various races in
an order different from their originally
scheduled place on the card. The owner
| of the mare Miss Primitive. which was
entered in the fourth race one day last
week. strolled into the ring at post time
of the second race and found the layers
accepting wagerS on the mare. and the
field of what he supposed was the fourth
race ready to leave the paddock. The
paddock judge reported the absence OF
the mare, but palpably, the stewards, on
| hearing the turfman's explanation of
her absence, excused her and all wagers
accepted on her chances We're refunded
without the formality of making a new
book.
That the stewards are determined to
cure any tendencies toward rough riding
was demonstrated strikingly this week
when Jockey Phil Musgrave. under con-
tract to the Tennessee stable, was fined
and suspended for this offense. The In
fiicting of the penalty came after SEES
sion with Jockeys Musgrave. Butwell
and Goose. a trio that is far in the lead
OF the winning riders here.
Many of the more pretentious stables
now racing at Palmetto Park will ship
to New York at the first intimation of
anything definite in the way of racing
dates being allotted by the Jockey Club
for the metropolitan tracks. The an
nohncement of the decision of the APP
pellate division of the New York
supreme court electrified the turfhent
here. and from that time since little else
has been a topic of conversation. The
purchase of the stallion Ballot by John
E. Madden of Kentucky, coming SO
shortly after the news of the decision,
was an attest that the country's leading
breeder. regarded the most astute
man in the racing game. had Astounding
confidence in the recrudescence of the
sport in the east.
After Brood Mares.
Francis J. Pons. owner of the Ten
nessee stable. one of the biggest money
winners at the local course. followed
quickly the move Of Mr.. Madden by max
ing offers right and left for suitable
brood mares for his newly stocked farm
at Madison, Tenn. He exchanged John
Hatcher, likely two-year-old, for Grace
Me. a mare of rare promise for the
stud, and is negotiating for other poten-
tial breeding material. He has at pres
ent one of the most pretentious stables
in training on the American turf num-
bering upward of score of horses ready
to race.
Every division of the game is represent
ed, his youngsters showing up well and
his
and stake divisions appearing in the entry
list with regularity The star Of the POns
string is the three-year-old Judge Wright.
by Superman-Debacle, and the Tennessee
stables hope for the Palmetto Derby.
Judge Wright is unbeaten i'm his two-year-
old form and has not yet been asked to
wear colors as three-year-old. He has
been burning up the track i'm the morning,
however. and Will be the main dependence
of the yellow. green cap" when the sta
bic, in charge of Trainers Jack McCor-
mick and William Sallee, goes up the line
into Kentucky and Canada.
Jack Kellogg, the Thousand six
hundred-dollar yearling which Mr.. Pons
bought at the Sanford dispersal SALE has
not been a success in the better class,
though he has victories won from cheap
horses to his credit. OF the others in the
Pons barn John Furlong has proved the
best dependence. Wiley b.. Jack Den
man, Font. Commoners Touch, Plant,
Gagnant. kinmundy. Pixies Peak, Abra-
sion, Annie Sellers. Rock Bar Great
Heavens, Jim Milton. Canechaser, Miss
Waters and others are all in training and
ready to race.
With the running of the Citadel handi-
cap this afternoon more than half the
stake list for the winter meeting has been
fulfilled, and the events of the future will
he certain to attract seasoned horses to
the post, the common excuse of unprc-
paredneSS not being available to any of
the stables which have good campaigners
in the stake division.
Next week two of the most interesting
events OF the winter season are to be de-
cided. They are the Isle OF Palms selling
stakes for three-year- and upward.
at Il mile. and the Georgetown stakes, at
half mile. for tWo-year-olds For the
first time in the east this year two-year-
Olds will be asked to go half a mile, and
the running of the race, to which all the
best youngsters of the year are eligible,
will serve to make or break a number of
possibilities which owners have been pin
ming their faith to for future perform
ances in Kentucky, Maryland and
Canada.
The Isle of Palms stakes will be decid-
ed Wednesday and the big two-year-
event Saturday. Unless some candidate
for the frSt-named event anneXeS it in
impressive fashion. track conditions and
other factors being propitious. the matter
of supremacy among the older horses able
to go a mile and on will probably remain
in doubt for the rest of the meeting. The
Georgetown stakes is in the nature of a
derby for the baby racers, and will at
tract attention all over the country.
TRADE INCREASES MILLIONS.