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CHABLESTOH END AT HAND PALMETTO PARK MEETING TO COME TO A CLOSE NEXT SATURDAY. Season Will Then Have Run for Exactly One Hun- I drcd Racing Days Meeting Financially Sue- cessful, Although Not Greatly So. i I liarlcsion, S. C. March 22.--Racing at Palmetto i Iark will come t" a close next Saturday, with the i one hundredth day of the meeting. Originally seventy eight days of racing were scheduled, but m- horsemen made a siieeessful pica for an extcn- t : ion and twenty-lour ailditinual days were granted. 1 1. ii two of these were lost on account of "inclement weather which roml a suspension of the. -sport. ! The meeting now coining to a elose has been sue- iissful limiucinily. hut not to a great extent. The 1 u-lier periods of the meeting were attended by loss s a result of the lib, -ml .stake offerings anil dis- . ,1 minting iiatronage. The pro-rating of the ring i id a steady gain in attendance have lately over- i the early losses and a lair margin of profit I is ft t he distributed to tin stockholders and is . : devoted to thv improvements of the plant. i lev of the horsemen who campaigned here this vi pit have stored up much of their earnings. Ex- I i "ii-ifs have been heavy in the matter of reed, in- i jIm als and shipping hills. .Most of them, though. .in contented to have engaged in the racing and i p it t lie sport on a sounder foundation here. Little : tr no opposition is manifest at present against the i : u rt and the dean and orderly manner in which : meeting has been conducted has gained for racing an army of new friends who will in future n 1 a welcome to the turfmen. The exodus for other points will begin in earnest . Hi s week. The horses racing here will be divided 1;, wien tin. Norfolk, Maryland and Kentucky tracks. I;C!t twenty carloads will go to Kentucky and sV" it tii cen" to Havre de Grace. The latter con-s.i.nh. nl will consist -of the horses of the following owners: .1. I.. Holland, three ears: II. 5. Bed-- 11. iliree cars: .1. t. Talbott. two cars; W. P. Limb Mie car: Y H. Mizell and .!. II. Mead, one car. Stanley 11. Kiiuz. one car. and Edward Trot-icr. I. Greenwood. .1. Luxlon. .1. Burttsehell and W.iVl.e .odin. Tie Kentucky dates arc pleasing to horsemen who IiMcnd to iKU-ticinate in the racing at Lex ki. Louisville and I.atonia, for the time inter-Wi"ig lief ore the opening of the Lexington meit- -:, v:!l Jit in with their plans of giving the horses l iv tliililTf fCUcil strenuously this winter a ncded i i V-cordlng to late reports, the weather has lit 1 1 imsi asonalile in Kiitncky and horsemen here s ud have an edge on those who wintered in the Mil g-nss country. There will be a big shipment o L :tiion at the close of racing at Palmetto P k The tirst consignment, will consist of a si eial train of tV.urteen cars of horss, with two ! k " s. one day coach, one baggage coach and a ins r attached. This train will go to Lexington ,i:. i iiiri as the second section of the Carolina S . i:il March ",0. There will also le many sliip-i .rts direct to Louisville. Those-. who .will send I ir horses on the special train . include It. I". t , -n an. Raleigh Colston. Weber and Ward. Frank E-l.rsiwn and others. Juite a number of owners will g- to Kentucky this spring who have either never d there before or have not been there fo evtrai years. The rich stakes and tempting parses hung up daily on the blue grass tracks appealed to them. K 1-. Carmans Kentucky Derby candidate. Sur . ismg, is taking work satisfactorily again and il undoubtedly be among the top-notch thrce-ycar- 1,s. lie made an enviable reputation last season, but did not show an inclination for a route in his Yw starts here. He was not anywhere near his T.n -1 form and that had considerable bearing on his sion success at this meeting. His owner cou- nl s sanguine tl.at h? will give a good account of himself in the Derby races and predicts that he v I repeal the success of Meridian at Churchill Downs on Derby day. That the patronage has held up so well during the c i elision period is intensely gratifying to the management, as it was feared that it might fall 0. 1 when the weather started to moderate in th. north to such an extent as to make the racing mi-1" tillable. Conditions have been just the reverse of this. The patronage has been as good, and usu-a Iv better, than at any time during the regularly scheduled season and the local people are taking 1. jcrc interest in racing at the present time than they did during the winter. The grandstand is tacked on ladies days, which in recent weeks have been each Tuesday and Friday. On the other days i f he vi-ek the crowd is far above the average for a winter track in a city of this size. There have been few suspensions here. Starter .Tunics Milton lias undoubtedly established a new record for a long winter meeting as far as the suspension of jockeys is concerned. He has had to exercise much patience with the jockeys, but the results were excellent. The stewards likewise have had little to do in this line and most of the suspensions handed out by them were indefinite. Every rider whom they suspended in this maimer has Ik-oii reinstated. Their action embraced rulings against jockeys Waldrou, Keogh, Murphy, Borel and Roscoc Goose, but all proved to the satisfaction of the .ilicbtls that they were entitled to the benefit of the doubt and have lteen allowed to resume riding. Tom Shaw is the only layer who has lost heavily. W. It. Engstroui at one time was over .", too behind, but has recouped his losses and is now a trille ahead, .lolin Lewis got 11.000 behind after starting fit! winner, hut the good breaks of the past few weeks have enabled him to credit, about St;. 000 on tlrc right side of the ledger. Fred Cook is ii winner. William Beverley is loser, as is Gus ISliin;,. Al Hanf has been a loser throughout the reason. The iield book faced a deficit until last week, hut is now winner. Other layers who have "perilled profitably include Tom Buckley, Henry IDtiT and Sam Bradley, while ClilT Kennedy, Steve I. Ilnniiiieoieu, George North and W. 0. Yanke are anong the losers. Charlie Ellison figures among the 1 rineipal winners olerating from the ground. Hi departed last week for a short sojourn at Hot Springs and will again patronize the Kentucky courses tills season. Frank J. Bruen, auditor of the local track, is the only Palmetto Dark olficial who is connected wltli the Kentucky race tracks and will leave here scon after the ch.se of the meeting to take up ills duties as assistant to General Manager John Hach-uteister of the Douglas Dark and Lutonia tracks. Mr. Bruen has worked untiringly for the success of the Palmetto Park meeting and has made a host of friends among the horsemen. Ho predicts lauuer meetings for all llio Kentucky courses anil hinks that the high quality of nominations for the rich Kentucky Handicap will help to attract to Louisville turf patrons from all parts of the coun-Iry. Quite a number of turf celebrities will depart at the close or racing here for Hot Springs. Ark., to li si brielly until the opening of racing in Kentucky. Horsemen are responding liberally to the stake offerings of the Ontario Joe-key Club. Eleven fixtures, carrying an added value of 3,000, have been provided by the club. Apart from these stakes there will be overnight handicaps of the value of SI. 000. S00 and 00 and the lowest value of auv overnight purse will be 000. A steeplechase wiil lie run every day during the meeting and to these races S,000 wiil be added, the lowest value of anv or the steeplechase purses being ,000. In all, something like .1914.sh0,000 will he distributed during the seveii-davs meeting, which comes pretty near being a record for any association in Canada for the same number of days. Entries to these stakes will close April 27. Jockey J. .McTaggart departed today for Ins home, where he will rest until the opening of racing at Havre dc Grace. McTaggart enjoyed an unusual measure of riding success here and piloted 93 winners during the ninety-four days he rode here. Manager Bob Levy of the Jamestown track departed last night for Norfolk to begin preliminary work in connection with his fifteen-days meeting which begins April 1. G. C. and W. H. Bakers string of racers are intended for shipment to Lexington next Tuesday. Several other stables had intended shipping to Kentucky during the present week, hut reports of adverse "weather In that section and the consequent inability of trainers to give their charges needed preparation for the coming racing will muse a number of owners to change their plans in regards to early departure for Kentucky.
