New-York tribune., 1885-01-18
RACE-HoRsES IN WINTER
PREPARING FOR THE SPRING CoNTEsrs


MONMOUTH PARK.
In consequence of the fine weather last week work
cn the grounds Of the Rockaway Hunt wa, actively
pushed. The club house, handsome structure
| is all under cover. On Wednesday gang Of fifty
laborers began work the new branch railroad which
ia to directly to the gounds. This it Is expected,
| will be completed by April l. The stables for tho
horses that will take part in the meeting will be at
| WOodsburg, just above the race track Woodsburg
Station Is about two miles and half from Rockaua9
Station. There hotel there large enough accom-.
modate host of owners and trainers and just back of
it there is stabng for 200 horses The entries for the
which close on February l. are coming in rapidly. The
association is fitting up little office In town. and Is
preparing handsome lithograph in coors giving
birdseye view OF the grounds at Rockaway and their
| surroundings
Meanwhile the other clubs are content to let the
Rockaway make all the running Though nothing has
been agreed upon yet, it is likely that the Mea ow
brooks will run their annual steeplechases the
Rockaway course in the week afer the Rockawsy
meeting. The Country Club at Pelham, which last
autumn promised spring meeting, will probably wait
till the fall before snmmonng the clans to its pct.
uresque grounds. his is mistake, for by That time
racing people have had. snrfeit even Of frst-cass
sport and atendances such be had in the spring
for cross country meetings cannot be counted upon
when the leaves begin to fall The Essex County Hunt
however, will probably have spring meeting On the
Waverly track, Ncw-Jersey, about the beginning OF
June.
As the first indications Of spring appear the
work Of schooling the horses cross country Will begn
and this year there will be great deal of this work
account of the two rich stakes Rocaway for green
hurders and chasers Most of the schooling Is done at
Brighton Beach. At Jerome Park the authorities do
not allow il. At Sheepshead Bay schooling is allowed
only for n lew hours each week At Brighton Beach
track however, it is permitted all the time except
| race days when seaplechase is on the card.
| Now that, thanks TO the efforts Of the Rockaway
Hunt steepechssing in this country is beginning to
| N Il
such that it will pay owners of highclas horses to
devote attention TO it, should give more caro-
to schooling their horses II Is the rule rather than
the exception to horses go to the post that only
halt know their duties and awkward Jumping shyipg
and refusing common that they really form part
| of the programme OF steerechase. In England.
wherever a stable pays much attention to cross
country sport school or pound Is generally to
be found on the grounds wherein those horses that
| have to learn their rudments turned rideress
Rails eight feet high enclose four sides OF
square, leaving track iittsen feet across and
along this hurdle made up fence with bar before
IT. single rail made of the trunk Of small tree, and
other jumps of various kinds are erected. A !htls
ditch is at the entrance Here the horse must jump
turn over and he finds ont that II Is easier and
more pleasant to try the former than indulge in the
latter The trainer stands outside the pound and with
the cracking of coachwhip keeps his pupil at work.
Such school" could be erected at trihing expense.
| Monmouth Park is fast becoming the most at
tractive wintering ground for race horses in the
East The animals may be exercised almost
every day on the roads adjoining the track. and
even when the descends they take their
| work in a pine wood, quarter of mile distant
where the ground never gets hard and the wind seldom
! sweeps through At present there eighty-twO
horses quartered the track or in the immediate
vicinity. Lewis Stewart, Appleby & Johnsons trainer.
has charmin place with tine house and substantial.
commodous stabling at Oceanport, and Jeter Walden
has bought place at Eatontown where he winters his
string George L. Lorillards horses in training have
been removed from his place. The Locusts," to the
track to keep the broodmares as quiet a. pos
sible.
A finer lot Of two ycar-olds man could hardly lay
eyes upon than at Monmouth Park. George L. Lori-
lard has eight Electric a bay geding, by Sensation
of Idalia. Feetwng, geding by Sensation out OF
imported Heather and Mariner. by Sensation on, Of
Ocean Queen a brother to Triton look to be the best
in the lot Electric is well named for both his sire and
dam possessed electric speed. and if this youngster
| does 1t will be a wonder.
| Mr. Kely's youngsters thanks to Barbee's care,
look rs pretty as pictures Most of them are by
Gleneg a sire in whom Mr.. Kelly has the utmost
fdence. The Gevelys all look as If cast out OF the
same mould, and they have legs clean whistles
and strong young trees The bay colt by Gleneg
out OF Optima is grandookng one, and the bay colt
by Glenelg out OF Peru is handy one and VIII
probably take part in the Juvenile The bay hily by
Lisbon of Austria however is the pet of the stable
She il "a superb raugy bloodke young and shows
quality all over Old Clonmel with whom the stable
twice A." skinned the lambs in baudlcaps at Jerome
Park and Bait more. looks big and healthy lie Is
showed him to the writer. and won't Try an ounce
under unishment. Little Rafferty, was the only one
for whom he try. You remember the lad used to get
10 work him with the whip at the fall of the h,g
but he wasn't strong enough 10 hurt Clonmel lie feit
the whip no moren if you d pat him the back. Fact
is sir i- rather enjoyed the fanning. and it
pied his mind and gave him something to think of and
chucklc over he forgot all about sulkpg and past
the post before he rrcoeced that he had dropped out
of his role OF a quitter."
Applcby & johnson have nc less than twelve two
nic Of tha hask IN bs fhe
brown colt Lookout. by vrg-Alert, and the bay colt
Blue ray by Blue Mante-Mary Day The Bramble-
Sue Walton colt half brother to Barrett is big and
overgrown that he will need plenty OF time.
In Strong's stable there is racy-looking black two
year-old geld ng by Blue Maute-Anna Jackson, who
will give good account of himself in TINE He does
not look to be an early bird, however
Charles Lttlefed has promising youngster in
Canonicus own brother Tecumseh. But. al he was
sick most of last year, he wall need mach time this
year.
Lewis Stewart. who the week before last sold Cricket
| and Rocket to James Roe, has sold the three-year
olds Ballot and mentmore 20 Jeter Walden. This
leaves Appcby Johnson's stable with but two three
yearolds neither of which has started vet. They
are the brown colt GodeIlo~, by Longfellow, ont OF
| Gold Ring by Rnggold. and the bay tillie, Moie
Pitcher, by Attila out of Bettna, The fy seems to
lack quality, but the colt issa ne looking specimen of
| q thoroughbred. lie stands shade over sixteen
hands. has bone and substance in proportion lie
was so big and overgrown last year that he was not
trained He will undoubtedly pay for himself this year.
Forester undoubtedly the best three-yearold OF his
year. will be put in the stud in few weeks. Last year
Stewart made attempt to get race out of him. and
finally wound him up sufficiently to work him nile
in LAO When he came into the stable. however his
leg began To ull again. aud then all hopes OF winning
with him were abandoned. Forester will stand at
Ransom Sickles's farm al Ho!mdel \. j. Mr. AppeDy
owns ak Young that To be bred 10 nm TINS
spnng They are Pearl Thorne. by Pat Molloy Dolly
Morgan Lady Athol. by Glen AthOl- Marguerite Wnd
Rose. BY Wdidle Nv andere ree-year:old lilly by
Attila out of Wild Rose. Maggie L.. by Kentucky
Maroon. and Affair by King Afonso-Molie Wood.
| Two others are yet to arrive
The National Horse Show Association has determined
hut will hold