The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-23
EE-DAYHORStMEET
in June ARRANGEDB ORGANIZATION
HAWAII POLO & RACING ASSOCIATION MEETS AND PREPARES
CARD FOR BIGGEST TURF MEET EVERHELD
IN THIS TERiIfOlap 1E'tFt

Next June, the Hawaii Folio and
Racing Club will stage the biggest race
meeting in the history of the Hawaiian
turf. There will be halliday Of
racing at Kapiolani Park on Saturday,
June o; o full days sport on Monday,
June III, Kamehameha Day, and another
matinee program on Saturday, June 10.
In all there will be six races for Hn.
waiian.breds and seven events for free.
for,all horses, The sum OF S4l50 will
be hung up For the free 1eoFsslEtthcss
and $2050 for the Hawaiian. bred
events. Events closed TO Army entries
will be worth S475, and 5000 win be de.
voted TO events confined exclusively TO
Orientals, making grand total Of
1926 in purses for the meeting.
The races vary in length from half.
mile 10 mile and half, and there will
be events for both home.bred and free.
for-all horses at these and intermediate
distances, Each day there will be a
big feature event.
II is at present undecided whether a
meet win be given next September un.
Ider the auspices of the Hawaii Polo and
Racing Club, but il has been definitely
determined that the usual meeting will
be given at Spreekels Park, Maui, under
the auspices of the Maui Racing Asso.
ciation
| Barrier To Be introduced
All events at the coming meeting will
be started with barrier and the track
Twill be put in condition for exercising
az soon as possible. At present figures
on this branch Of the racing club Z
work are being gone into. - Sass
The following important ruling ha,
been adopted by the Hawaii Polo and
Racing Club: -
| An geldings imported since Janunr,
| 1, 1917, are barred from all free for-all
nat races at the coming meeting and al
all future meetings held under the au
spices of the Hawaii Folio and Racing
Club. E..' s.a
This is good rule, for by virtue ol
IL all imported thorOughbreds from nov
on must be. either stations or mares
j which, in either case, will benefit tn.
TERRITORY. from stock raising stand
fpoint. Without the rule there would b,
nothing TO prevent an owner shipping
in a sharp gelding, entering him, ant
sweeping the board of the principa
races at a meeting, and when his rAdinI
,areer was finished, RELOCATING him -
he ignominious career of a haetNhorse
II This kind of thing would natnsplt
net as a deterrent to other owners, am
in q country like Hawaii, where racinl
is, perhaps, more than elsewhere 4
means toward an end, would tend TO re
solve the sport into a cold-blooded gam
bling proposition. Under the new rul
the owners of a mare or q stallion
even If their horse prove not a success
pm the turf, have a chance Of retriey
Ling and perhaps lettering their invest
ment when their horse goes to the stud
| George p. Cooke, the popular ON
Woodworking secretary of the Hawai-
} folo and Racing Club, stated yesterda
that the club is in most satisfact5f
! condition financially and otherwise, an
: that the prospects for record -breakia
June meeting are Of the brightest. 4
Following are the programs Of tn
three days racing next June, subjeC
Ito the approval of the directors Of til
Jockey club: H''t u' tthFE
Saturday, June 8
1-2f15 class, trotting and pacing