The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-05

New York, May 4.-The book pro-
grammc has been issued by the West
chester Racing association for the
Morris Park meeting, which will start
the ball rolling in earnest in this sec
ton next Saturday
According to the dates allotted by the
Jockey club there will be racing on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
under the auspices of the Westchester
organization while the National Hunt
and Stecplechase people will provide
sport for lovers of the cross country
game two days in each week. The COM
bined meetings extend from May to
May 90 when the scene of the cam
paign will be transferred to GraVesend,
which will open on May 81 with the
Brooklyn handicap for an attraction.
FIRST BIG HANDICAP.
The Metropolitan, first of the big
spring handicaps, is down for decision
rext Saturday. 1t will be run over the
Withers mile and promises to bring out
thoroughly representative field. The
following will in all probability be seen
at the post
Requital, Hastings, First Mate, The
Winner Sir Walter, Ben Eder, Free
Advice, Brandywine, Hanwell, The
Friar, George II. KetCham, Voter, Cas-
seopia, Lochness.
The other well known animals eligi-
BILE to start are: Handspring, Ben
Brush, Balmar Halma, Gotham, Sem
per Ego and Algol.
F9nk McCabe has had to indulge
| Handspring and may not feel justified
! in sending him to the post. Ben Brush
is still bothered with sprain, and so far
Campbell has done little or nothing
with him. Balmar is possibility.
Halma, since his arrival from Gin
| cinuati, has been asked to stride out
the handicap distance three or four
| times but on each occasion after he
has pulled up he has limped around
| the paddock. The prospects of his ever
| seeing the post is decidedly gloomy.
Gotham is as big as a bullock and
| since his arrival at McCafferty's stable
| has only received slow, steady work.
Semper Ego may represent the Chi
| Cago contingent in place of Free Ad-
| vice as he has been doing his share Of
| galloping in company with the other
! two candidates.
OF those slated to carry silk, Rcquital
| i'm his work has more than fulfilled
| expectations. First Mate from the pre-
parations he has been treated to since
! his departure from Chicago is evident
! ly a genuine candidate.
The Winner, in the smooth, beauti-
| full style i'm which he has been get
! ting over the ground, has won many
| admirers.
SIR WALTER IS FIT.
| Sir Walter is as sound as a dollar
and as full of life and dash as a two
ycar-Old. His trainer has every conf
| denCe i'm his ability to win not only
| the Metropolitan, but the Brooklyn as
well.
| Jack Joyner will have Brandywine
as fit as a fiddle, but whether he is fast
| enough to live in such company the
| issue alone will show. HanWell has
been working well by fits and starts.
OF the five 3-year-olds, The Friar is
| reported to have improved in most sat-
isfaCtory fashion, and he is confident
| ly expected to prove the best of his
| age. George II. Ketcham, who has
| been undergoing a thorough prepara-
| tion at Saratoga, was thought so much
of by his ownertrainer last fall that
he repurchased him at an advance az
ter he had been sold under the ham
| mer in England.
AS regards Ben Eder, there is every
reason to believe that he has come back
to his spring form of last season. All
| Gravesend is unanimous in his ability
to win.
Free Advice, a 5-year-old, with 11C
pounds. must be considered a factor
and especially when it is remembered
he was the only animal to lower Hal
mas COlors in 1895.