New-York tribune., 1885-03-29
At WOEK ON THE RACE TRACKS.
TRAINING GALLops AT JEROME PARK

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WITH RACING OFFICIALS.
Last Wednesday was the first day on which trainers
copId resume work in Jerome Park. The cold term
which set in toward the end Of the previous week
froze the ground so hard that all work was practically
brouoht 10 n standstill On Tuesday afternoon, how
ever Superintendent Clarke, who Is an lndeIaugaoie
worker got his harrows out and on the Iono"ins
morning most OF the trainers exercised the horses o
the track ,,
Goano continues to do well and appears to lie making
stesdv If slow progress Now that visitors to Jerome
Park are becoming frequent converts TO he creeu
whose prime article is that Goano will win the winners
are becoming more and more numerous In TACT tnele
is scarcely a trainer who has seen MN VINO aoes NV
propounoe him the pick of the lot TOR the American
counterpart of the Two Thousand. In the lnihds oi
ali the question Of his winning depends entirely upon
Pryors skill in getting him fit IL Is urged tnan las, ,
wear he was slow about and hence might again hos
be able to get the handsome son OF springook NIu
Ill early However, Pryor is on his mette ana VIII w
his utmost
"Plunger" Walton's horses were expected at Jerome
Park last week from Saratoga in charge OF James Lee
but the cold weather probably induced the trainer to
defer his trip for few days The steeplechasSIGrs sI
Bourke Cochran, GeDarm, Captain CnrrX anu M hlos
Mousey comprising Mayor Nolans team, ra, me
trainer arrived on Thursday. They have wlntered
well and as they are entered tor the Rockaway meeting
Nancy will send them right along IN their work
AT Sbeepshead Bay work on the track was begun
on Friday. The horses doing well. Chickadee $
foal by Sensation is growing rapidly. There Is one
animal in the Dwyer stable that the experts seem to DC
overlooking completely when considering the caliui-
dates for hoEors in the y stakes this year. ana nat
is Preciani by Alarm Preciosa. The 6listerng wmcn
she got last January seems to have done nel
we'll and altogether gives promise oil turning 0ut hn
three.year-old She may not prove Miss Woodiorl'
hut she showed last year that she had speed anu III
such GOOD hands as Frank McCabes and William
Stoopss the Wandas and East Lynnes will not have
things all their own way.
J. d. Cheever SAYS that the reports of the fire at Far
Rockaway near the club grounds exaggerated IL
WAS sip,nly some Rubbish on adjoining meadows that
caught fire Work the new branch railroad VIII DC
begun on Monday if the weather permits It, SuDscrlp-
tons TO membership of the Associa ion are coming III
rapidly.
Secretary Mcintyre of the National Jockey Club of
Washington. who came to town on Monday, went home
on Wednesday evening His fancy for the Withers Is
Brookwood of whom he has high opinion. Said he
" A great many people did not like him last year on
account of his small size and his deficiency in back
ribs but raceborses in all shapes and am fully
satisfied that Brookwood not many pounds behhd
Wanda Goano or Richmond. lie would have made a
mark as great two-yearold had it not been for his
first race the Clabaugh Memorial at Baltimore iheIe
was long delay at the post and to false start BROOK
wood ran a mile which timed in las. Then ne
was brought back to the starting post without the boN
even getting of Lis back and his head was scarcely
turned when down went the nag ana the rea race DC
gan Yet in spite OF his mile he finished third TO
fee Doe and Krishna the half mile being run in 5l
seconds An experience like this is bound TO tell on
voung horse and think that it hart his speed and
courage for the balance of the year"
Vmton in Davis & Halls stable Mr.. Mcintyre con-
sders good horse, and thus, though the stable has
lost its strongest card War Eagle the owners Will not
be badly off The "dark Fernleaf who has been spoken
of highly of late. Mr.. Mcintyre regards asa good
horse also Fefnlea has been sick for long time but
Is now In fine condition. Rosere has also done we'll
Ex-Governor Oden Bowie was III hard luck last
wear but Mr. Mcintyre thinks that his chances for
Success are much better this season. Bessie has win
tered well and the young Catesbys, though not large
look as if they had speed.
Captain Coster requests THE TRIBUNE to state that
War Eagle is wrongly entertd in the jerome Stakes "a
owned by j. Kane. IL should be J. Roe. The typo
graphical error was overlooked by the prooireader