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VENEZUELAN RACING AB IT GOEb A recent edition of the Venezuelan Herald published at Caracas contains the indexed summary of a days racing They race only Sunday in that country and on each day they giro three races for native horses and two for thoroughbreds The purses for native skates vary from 600 to 400 bolivars a bolivar being equal in value to a French franc oru arly20 cents of our money The Stuart selling stakes for thoroughbreds at 00 meters was worth 800 bilivars and was won by the threeytarold Ficis carrying 57 kilos and rid ¬ den by Gioiu There were only two starters and the beaten horse Monroe must have been the favorite fo French pools paid 750 bolivars for 5 bolivars The time of the ra ce was 0524 which ail horsemen w ill agiee was not so awfully bad for 800 met rs That is theyll agree to anything befon going into a mental calculation of reducing the distance to furlongs and yards yardsIhe Ihe National Handicap 2000 bolivars at 1300 metres was won by the thoroughbred Sultan formerly Old Mate by Duke of Mon trose ilarkaway in 128X Pools paid at the rate of 8 to 5 5What What strikes one most forcibly upon glancing over the Venezuelan form chart is the fact that every winner lauded his purse easily DArtag au winner of tha opening event of the day came the nearest to any being forced into a drive for Menelik was only three lengths behind at the finish Even in the twohorse races a wide dis ¬ tance separated the contestants at the finish Finis was eight lengths in front of Monroe and Sultan beat Lantern four lengths Sultan by the way was piloted by Noble whose name was once familiar to racegoers in this country who appears to be the star jock of the Caracas track Ho not only won the 2000 bolivars event but landed two winners in the native horses events And he isnt winning on hot favorites either the pools paying about 12 to 5 5American American owners are scarce R 8 Barney dwner and rider of Lantern is the only man on the card who can not jabber Spanish with the fluency of a Don The syndicates appear to be controlling most of the animals racing there and Sindicato S Grande appears to have the largest string of all allThe The Jockey Clubs programme contains fifteen stako offerings principally for thoroughbred horses These events are very appropriately named and one can start in the Coney Island Handicap and imagine that one is in New York Other stakes are named the Interna ¬ tional Continental Washington Commerce Ormonde and Mirando MirandoThe The conditions are very clear and simple as witness the announcement of the Iroquois Thirteenth Day Iroquois Putse 500 bolivars 3 yearolds 49 kilos 4yearolds 56 5yearolds and older 58 all winners 3 kilos more winner of a purse of 500 bolivars Z1A kilos more of a pUiseofSOO bolivars 5 kilos a larger purse 8 kilos any hore which has not won a 500 boli ¬ vars purse will have 3 kilos less lessThe The presiding judge is Eduardo Montaiban and among the stewards are such wellknown turfmen as F J Sncre O E Varges and F To ¬ ledo the later gentleman being evidently from the northern part of Ohio and sailing under an assumed name in order to evade a laundry bill M do Varley is the starter and he is said to be quite as proficient as Colonel Jack Chinn of Kentucky although he insists upon swearing in the Spanish language a fact which makes it impossible for the American jockeys to know whether he is praising or damning them when at the post
