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CHARLESTON HAS A FUTURE PREDICTION MADE THAT IT IS DESTINED TO BECOME GREAT RACING CENTER. Patronage Has Been Constantly Improving Since, Opening of the Season and Turfmen Are Impressed with the Possibilities. Charleston. S. C, December 14. Continuous improvement in patronage was the rule at Palmetto Park during the past week and the meeting may now be said to be satisfactorily under way. Speculation in tile betting ring has leen steady and those layers inclined to handle goodly amounts have had ample opportunity to do so. Form lias been well observed since the opening and, as a result, the price-makers have all suffered losses. Tl.e, week brought another good inilux of visitors, most of whom Intend to remain for the rest of the season. The newcomers included E. R. Bradley, who had intended to remain only one day, but Who found the conditions here so prosperous that he lingered two additional days before proceeding to New Ycrk. Before his departure this afternoon, Mr Bradley said: "hi my experience of 20 years on the turf, I have never come across a place with a more promising future than Palmetto Park seemingly lias. Kverv Indication points to it becoming the natural successor to other points where there lias been high-class winter racing and I expect that by the middle or January the racing and its attending incidents will not full far short of midsummer proportions." After a brief stay in New York, Mr. Bradlev will go to Chicago and later to his Idle Hour Farm at Lexington, before finally journeying to Palm Beach. That the stewards aim to maintain good, clean sport was shown by the suspension of two jockeys during the iuist week. Such efforts are highly commendable and the stewards have the well wishes or all or those who want to see winter raciug built up 011 a substantial basis. L. A. Cassidy. who is assisting in the management or the plant," has been responsible for many improvements. He looks after the many little details incidental to the running of a race track and has "done his work well. .Messrs. Aucrbach and botille, wlio are in charge of affairs, map out the plans which are tarried out and they have shown that they know how a race meeting should be run from the fact that everyone here this winter is a booster. Secret a rv Nathansons program for this week is arranged with a view to improvement in the quality or the fields, even H the dodgers iersist in waiting ror soft spots. The selling race handicaps will be of material benefit. An intended feature of the sport this winter is long-distance racing. A. series of such races for stayers are in prospect for each week at distances varying from one mile and a quarter to two miles. The Kentucky horses carried off the lions share of the purses during the week and right now they loom up as superior to the eastern contingent. Xlie Bewell horses raced disappointingly during the past , week and won only one purse. Jockey Martin took a wonderful brace in his saddle work during the week and showed particularly well In the longer distance races in which he rode. The arrivals expected this week include John . Schorr, Barney Schrelber, W. G. Yanke and jockey Borel. , , The Fort Moultrie Selling Stakes, seven furlongs, and the Mount Pleasant Handicap, one mile and a sixteenth, are this weeks stake features.
