The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
TIE TRA1Nrsa SEASON.
A Charming Sight for the Lover of
Pace Horses.
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NJODyiiyItt 1901
NEW YORK. March 23.-Training opera
tons have begun in earnest, and for the
lover OF race horses, who can see and admire
them independently of their value as means
for speculation. there is no more charming
sight than the Boulevard at Coney isl nd,
Of morning. The three race tracks-the
Corey island, the Brooklyn and the Biigh-
ton Blackjack send out large contingen is
each dav, and from s O'clock until noon
string after string of horses can be noted,
some walking, some trottlng, OF ers canter-
llg, and still others moving at half speed.
Within the past two or three days the
Sheepshead Bay and Brooklyn tracks have
been harro ed and prepared for slow work,
but until the going on the two courses gets
really good, trainers will prefer the road as
being not alone safer but faster.
But, after all, the beginning of the active
training season this year IS rather later
than usual, and, when one comes to think of
it, there is not a great deal Of time in which
to prepare horses for their early spri e
engagements. the opening of the regular
eastern season takes place at Washington on
April "A, and that is practically only a
month Off
What is being done about the Suburban
Is question that everybody who takes an
interest in early spring racing will ask.
nave heard reports from every book in the
country that lays against this great spring
race, bat there has not as yes been am
demonstration in behalf of any animals
beyond Badge and Terra Gotta About the
former | sp Ike last week, bee use | know
positively that, barring an accident. he will
% certain starter As soon as books were
opened in st. Louis his part owner took the
odds of % to to the full limit Of each boz 4,
one being a S., 900 AMI the othsf a $4,000
enterprise. Terra Gotta was also backed to
the full limit in two books by his owner,
George Hankns, aud thus he may be re-
garded as cer5ai1 Starter, barring an &C
cdent Somebody, or melodies are hard
at work trying to bear the market about
Terra Gotta, saying that he is not dol e well,
cannot be got ready, and that he is breaking
in blotche' all over hi skin had Il
letter only few days ag0 il which Terra
Gotta is sp0ken of in very high terms, aud
am satisfied that the u favorable reporos
about him are prcDosterO1s.
A horse that is bou ID to he backed shortly
is j ldge Murray The colt, 4-year old,
by Ten Broeck-Bercha B, Is owned and
trained in Soutl Carolina, and is practic-
ally in the hands OF the same people who
had that grand young cripple Savanna,
who, as 3-Yelr-olA. raa third TO 1rouba-
dour in the Suburban Of 1856 1t was the
ndTUtbb WOTk III bHS WOliu W kSL llAS SOU Vi
Mortimer and Sly B pots up to the race, as
after every gallop tlao he got he went sore.
In the race too, he was badly cut down
behind. But for tlls he might ha e b eaten
aYen the mighty TrOI1 ID )ur. VINO knows
1t would be almost poetic justice if South
Carolina would win . race which it came
so near landing three years ago Judge
Murray is not n colt possessed of the extra
ordi airy turn Of speed which Savanac had,
hrTf 10 &c a m ltnr a Nd r. iNn "a =
trainers call wound up to the TOP notcl.
Last year he was very good colt, better
one in fact than his public performances
ever showed, but taey themselves were sufii-
ciont to stamp him al animal tn must not
be overlooked, particularly as he is in at
only lis pounds.
SO far can only name one other starter
with reasonable amount of certainty,
and that is Drums lex. He is speedy ami
NAL, but is of the plaity order aud is out
classed.
Now that Jimmy Mclaughlin has joined
fortunes with the Chicago sta bles, a western
establishment his great rival, Snapper Gar
rISoA Is tne unrivaod Deeme # the east,
and he is getting ready for work. He Gun
be seen any morning on the Long Island
roads enveloped in hannels. sweaters, a
thick pea jacket, eavy muifier and seal
skin cap, taking long wasting walks for the
purpose of getting down TO riding weight f
ll5 pounds. Garrison is not a man who
makes eight very much III WI ter, as BE-
iadulges IN a deal Of steady, strong physical
exercise throug aout the 81 Sc season. But
al that he now weighs about $50 pounds and
he prefers to begin early 3 as not to subject
himself 10 a too severe strain.
People talk about the princely salaries
paid fashionable jockeys for ri ing races
Does anybody ever think of the phyS.a
torture5 to which these men have to subject
themselves to be able b get do v to ride at
the prescribed weight? Turkish baths, walks
Of six, eight, twelve miles twice a day in
sweaters, very often in a broili1g sun, alb
stiaence from food, from drink for TWEEN v
four hours at time. Everybody klows
how, after a bit of severe exertion. particu-
larly in summer, the whole system c.a7ea
for a drink Of water, but a jockey can afford
very often to do no m re than molsteu his
lips, for a substan ia, drink of water would
put on half pound Of the weight which ne
tried so hard to get off.
| was in Turkish hath the other morn
ing 1t is place much frequelted by ath-
letes, jockeys and other psope similarly
engaged IN sporting av9cl-ions. | met a
lckey there who had been in the place al
most all night, trying to get pounds off
He was ENGAGED to ride a so-callsd good
thing" at Clifton and he had to maze llS
pounds. A lot Of money was to be bet on
the horse and he was to receive a handsome
sum If he won.
the scrapIngs, sweatings, ETC., to which
that poo GLOW was subjected were exces-
live l don't think that ne quite got rid of
the pounds, for he declared two over
weight. And, what was more, he did not
win There was the labor of the night the
fasting during the whole day till nearly
O'clock aud very cold, raw day it was, ali
thrown away for nothing. If a man like
that receives a S6 % fee for winning a race,
has he not earGed it!
Tnere is ull in trotting affairs tempo
rsriiy, a reaction having set in after the ex-
citenen 1t created last week by tae phenome-
nal sale of California trosters. In local
circles much interest is expressed as to row
tho stakes # the New York Driving Club
which close on April l, will fill. Candidiy
speaking, nobody entertalns Any brilliant
anticipations, because the club has shown
no disposition to proceed in the active en-
terprisiag manner VIII ca the new manage
ment lnaugu ated last year TIE members
showed this veey plainly when they refused
TO elect Mr.. DE Cofdova TO the presidency
agaln this year, and chose board # officers
that mus; be regarded as decidedly OF tie
reactionary order 1t is hardly 20 be expected
that the experiments with dash system OF
trotting races will therefore bs proceeded
with, and yet something Of this kind was
exactly wnau was needed to arOu'e popular
interest in trotting in New York TIE
metropolis is not a tr5tting city, though
there is probably more road driving aud
there are more individual owners OF fast
road horses here than IN any Other city in