Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-25
CHARLESTON MEETING
COSTLY TO FOLLOWERS
Poor Class OF Horses, Coupled With
Deep Going to Which Some Object,
Make Picking Difficult.
WAITING FOR NEW ORLEANS

norSemen Hope for Change When
Racing Starts Mt the Crescent City
New Years Day-Snd Bunch on
Broadway Recently.
Might just as we'll try to pick u needle
from haystack with Il pair of boxing
gloves on as to try to pick winners at
Charleston. 1t surely is n hard propo-
sition. says Ed Cole in the New York
Evening Telegram. The more one
studies over a race the more complex
IT becomes. Inconsistency is rife and
III most cases it is natural as the
class of horses running there is so bad
that they rarely run two races alike.
and the slightest interference will up
set all calculations.
horse will get away from the most
in good position one day and run n
race that makes him look like n star.
, nne next time he starts he gets away
traiiers Then the cry of fraud goes
up. 1t may have been premeditatcd,
G %n1 IN m m1ne cases out of ten it is acct
denl ana the bad race is due to the
ground ' '0'
With ban horses much depends upon
the start. If a horse gets the slightest
interference 1t is rarely the lost ground
can en- a, ne made up: Interference and un-
more. Charleston has been bad for
form PLAYERS in fact. il has been IA
To be pulled tightly around the ex-
penses to make both ends meet Again,
the prices offered have not been very
made money scarce down there. and i'm
the cities. too. for that matter. The
plaEers are getting wise to the per-
too much against them they stand on
the corners and watch instead of talk
Players have fought shy of Charles
ton ever since the track was built
owing to the Experimentation of the
g9ing and the fact that some horses
ing. too has been prevalent, which
does much TO create inconsistency in
horses.
The followers Of the thoroughhreds
are are hh" Is,g for change when the rue
n ses bay at New o, orleans on New
track is at least uniform. When it
rains II gets bad and very bad. except
Jockeys will soon become acquainted
with the path, and then every race in
the mud simply develops into n case of
early speed. for the horse that gets TO
Usually wins the race
In fair weather the New Orleans
suit almost every horse that is now
racing. Unless it has changed consid-
eer e IN the last seven years it. can
being formed OF somewhat similar ma
tcrial and about as fast
c,a NJ ma)oriiF OF horsemen now al
first few days AT New Orleans. and IL
,h, r.: n runs no sNmoothly Of which
ports from there. Murphy viii have
no dearth of horses. for horsemen are
ioath to take long trip with racing
material when they can make a short
jump
If New Orleans assumes successful
aspect rp IL WI pull number. of horses
Re decided to start on Nav Years Day nH"
before the close of Charleston and the
pplsn Of OF ,b cGna; lie had tested the
see clearly that ii he could run his
Meeting at New Orleans without legal
he needs. for a forty-day session.
Ihere Is no question that Brown will
Set some horses TO go to Havana. hut
gathered had New Orleans not opened
up, II he can get 900 he will be doing
well enough. as he can sat least start
GOOD races. and should/the inaugural
t!yh OF racing in Havana be success
iu! more horscmcn will make the Jour
Foilo wing the victory of Cclegta at
H ,,ii, there was n sad bunch of
horses. had seen the mare work in ex
traordinarily good time few DAYS
ago ago at Charleston. and had left on
the next train for New York. where
nc could get fair sized commission
aboard when she started The money
OF mis- own and that of several friends
was pooled and they were only await
ing for the appearance Of a local com
missioner among the layers who han
dies the out-of-town money for Co
ltsta's owner. After several hours'
wait neither the commissioner nor the
money for Celesta showed, so McClen
nan and his friends finally decided that
she would do" for some other day.
They were dunfounded when word
came over the ticker that she had won
II since developed that her connec-
IONS made tremendous cleanup
throughout the country. McClcnnai
was telling the crowd afterward that
he knew when he saw her work that
her owner would turn Il Flobert rifle
on the hand books.
Cclcsta was sold at Charleston last
winter TO an agent Of George Wingfieid
a Nevada millionaire. for $4,000, and
since then has shown great form ON
several occasions. She races now UNI
der the name OF y. T.. Dayton. who
several years ago brought Jack Nun
nhiiy and Ncva Lee to New York and
California