New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
GOSSIP OF THE TROTTERS.
MANY ENTRIES FOR THE SPRING STAKES
AT FLEETWOOD.
TRAINERS WHO WILL. MAKE THE TRACK THEIR
HEADQUARTERS THIS YEAR - sTEoNd
CHARLES TO BE HANDLED BY "KNAr
e.cu.. xfcApTuY AND OTHERS.

SACK" MCCARTHY AND OTHERS
Although present indications point to the disrup-
ton of both the southeastern spring trottihg cir
cult and the Grand Circuit as heretofore made up
tho outlook for harness racing In New-forK ana
,ts vicinity Is quite as promising as 1t was year
ago. The entry lists which closed last month Tor
the stake races of the fall meeting al rleetwood
furnished evidence that nearly all or tne ieauihe
stables on the 'rotting turf. East ana west VIII
make New-York an objective point In the campaign
OF 1896 and now tina, the stakes for the June races
NJ the historic old track have closed, the indications
are that the spring meeting will be little less notable
than the more important series In september ror
the three contests of goo EACH opened last month
by the Driving Club OF New-forK. secretary fieoses
ha. received a list Of eighty nominations. max
ing an averagc of nearly thirty horses In each class
The 2:s0 trottng stake has twenty mine prospective
starters the 800 pacing stake thirty-three anu inc
800 trottng stake twenty-three entries.
This is by far the largest list secured FOR any OF
the spring stakes In the East thus far TINS year ana
# comprises some horses which are known to DC
good enough to make high-class harness racing
SOME OF THE ENTRIES.
nm. a, tho entre, IN tho 900 class is the bay geld
,ro paoa nv Polonus who trotted mile over the
Goshen halfmile track last season In 2:2Ois. with
very little training. Page Is looked upon as a
prospective 2l5 troter and there are others III tne
list that should force him to step fast 10 VIII Noy
Miller. an Orange County rensman. who now trains
for r II Plant, OF Macon. Ga. enters StraiSntlne'
a daughter OF Jerome Turner. 2:5it. in both TIE
400 class. and the 2:3o class James Butler the
president OF The Driving CLUB names three soou
green ones In Gymnast. by Director, 2l'; Colon
more by Baron Wilkes. 2:1s and Savonno. ny jay
BIRD W H. Mccarthy y. II. Demarest. A T. Nc
Dorah w y Trimble John Penman, NJ. p. Devy.
and John p Gibbs are OF the well-known
trainers who figure in the list OF nom'ha'ors' ana
who will doubtless make other entries In the purse
races which close May Is
The spr1ng meeting at Fleetwood 10 to be held
during the first week In June preceded by the meet
ing Mt the Parkway course In Brooklyn. and fol-
lowed BY the opening Of tho trotting season In
Boston where dates have been claimed Tor Twelve
weeks of harn racing this year Inc fail nee'ihh
at Fleetwood will take place August 81 to September
g. the week following the New-EngIahd breeders
meeting In Boston. and IT Ia probable that a mid
summer meeting will be given by the Driving club
Of York July % TO 81.
WELL-KNOWN TRAINERS AT FLEETWOOD
Some OF the best stables in the East are 10 be
trained nj Fleetwood this Major s. T. Dick
inson who has for several sent his horses 10
George Starr al Haute. will soon have select
string OF trotters at work al Fleetwood Ill charge OF
the rising young reinsman Kimbal Patterson,
brother Of Rody Patterson. who drove for Frank
Rockefeller in 1895. Young Patterson is barely or
age bu, he did some clever work In Al emergency
with Starts horses last year, and Major DICKINSON
thinks well OF the young man that ne 's gong 10
4,
snnn and the rest OF his trotters Roseleaf. who
was badly bruised and cut in fall on one or tho
slippery drives OF Central Park not long ago. hes
FUZZY recovered from the eHects OF the insnap aI,
Soon is the much talked OF tnree-yehf-
old that Major Dickinson purchased TOT SioO AZ
Monroe Salisbury's closing out sale ABOUT a moh,n
ago The youngster IS said 10 be a phenomehsi,y
fast one. having shown 22O gait ss yenrhnn h s
prancam was "a ine road mare that Roscoe tohk-
Major Dickinson has IN the bay hlly Serene by ~
lone a r-Old that he likes quite as wen as
Too Soon He has driven her 20 pole once or t~isc
with Cocoon and she can brush JUST as ,as' AS ~,
road mare that her owner hesitates about having
her trained for the turf.
MCARTHY's STRONG STABLES
"Knapsack" Mccarthy has decided TO make Fleet
wood his headquarters this season and he VIII have
| one OF the strongest stables on the turf For The
IIubinger Brothers OF New Haven. he IL TO train
| the crack PAGER Frank Aran. 2.otN. and lot OF
other good ones and for 'he New-York horsenan.
| William Kelly he will handle Dan Cupid -'p's
Earnsie. 2lG.: L. s Bond. 2l''.. and Jane 2l3..
John r. Madden has placed the BLACK uo,'rr hIl1e
| 9,iGi. in Mccarthy hands. and "knapsack VIII
also train and campaign his own mare Anna Mace
| 2.er, By Robert McC;rcgor.
| Among the other trainers who are gong TO pic Ic
| Dick Wilson. John Kelly. John T. Gibbs. Isaac
| Fleming John Penman. FREDERICK Noble. Jonh
| Daly. Jerome Whelpley /. II. Hurd. FroJeric
| Bovine and Aaron Fowler The inle Track on Jo'
| y Rowne NJ +. Devy John Driscoll Charles g.
] Moser J. p Rogers D. H. Nichols and a number
| Of other Brooklyn r~nsmen, while the GraveseId
! men do their training at the PARKWAY course A.
| toeether there will be more h!gh-class horses
bandled this season than before the 'rottinc
| tracks about New-York