Evening star., 1897-03-01
NEXT MONTHS RACES
Spring Meeting Of the Washington
Jockey Club.
EXPECTED TO Be MOST BUCCEssFUL
Weights Announced for the Hand
leap for Three-Yeaf- -oIds.
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES

The spring meeting of the Washington
Jockey Club will begin Saturday, April L.,
and will close Saturday, April "a There
Will be eight days of racing, and it is ex-
pected that the meeting will be in every
way the most successful ever given at the
Benning track.
The stakes to be run for have filled well.
the entries being of high class.
Perhaps the most important stake 20 be
run for at the meeting is the Washington
handicap, at one mile, for three. .year-ol,,s
and upward, 5000 to the first horse, 500 to
the second and 800 to the third The
weights were announced today and are as
follows:
Walter Rollins. bh. Deerslayer. five
years. 126 pounds; VIM. Jennings, b.h
Dutch Skater, six years, 124 pounds; j. Nc
Laughlin, ch.h. Premier. four years, 119
pounds: Robt Boyle, br.h. Septour four
years. 11S pounds: w. c. DAILY br.g Volley,
four years, 10 pounds; w. c. DAILY, be
Arabian, three years. JOG pounds; Mrs. l..
Curtis. Big. Hi Daddy, three years, JOG
pounds: A. H. & D. H. Morris. brig. Billali
three years. 105 pounds; r. c. Hall, be
Buddha. three years. 103 pounds; Anthony
Gray, chg. Maple Prince, four years. 81
pounds.
If on April l the highest weight accepting
to that weight. and the other acceptances
equally. Winners after the publication of
the weights of a race of any value. four
pounds extra; of two of any value, or one
of $780, six pounds extra: of three Of any
value, or one of 81. .00O eight pounds extra
In the case of horses handicapped at 113
pounds or over these penalties shall apply
to the extent of one-half only.
Eastern Stables Coming.
From the New York Sun, Today.
Little more than a month remains be-
fore the curtain for the eastern campaign
will be hauled up. Under the banner Of
the Jockey Club, operations will begin at
Benning April II, nor will they cease until
the second meeting at the same track has
been concluded. the last weeks in Novem-
Der
beginning to dawn on trainers who have
engagements to fulfill at the Washington
track. This was very much in evidence
last week at Morris Park and the Long
Island courses. At Gravesend. where 1t has
been as still as a church mouse for nearly
three months, signs of stir and hustle in
dicate how near is the end Of the inactive
winter spell.
w. c. DAILY, whose horses are always the
first to commence preparations for win
ming their feed bills and the last to indulge
in a necessary rest, has begun to send his
string of twenty-five along at a good,
lIoIlS Sdit captain l. utduS the OlQer Ql-
vision, and the shifty son Of Wanderer and
Clio Will be expected to open the stables
accounts at Renning with-a victory
OF the younger brigade In the Hartford
turfman's string great deeds are expected
from General Maceo, a son of the English
flyer, Meddler, from a daughter of Glen
Gig
Frank McCabe, who does not mean to
leave a stone unturned to have his horses
cherry ripe from the start, has had them
on the track throughout the week. Hand
spring, considering the time of year, is as
hard as nails, state Of affairs due to the
fact that McCabe has kept him steadily
going under the shed throughout the win
ter. His feet are apparently as sound as
a drum, and If he only stands the ordeal
when the real question is asked him, no
filter horse will be seen a the post for the
Brooklyn. McCabe has had many shy al
the big Gravesend struggle. and on the
present occasion he has set his heart upon
capturing the prize. Up to the present the
two-year olds in the stable have furnished
their trainer with no cause for complaint,
ana as they include some half-doZen young
sters by Hanover and a sister to Tammany,
the colors of the older of the Dwyer broth
ers bid fair TO play prominent role during
the approaching season. Little Declare aud
Benning. They will be shipped to Wash
ington the first week in April, in charge of
John Hynes. McCabe's tried lad.
Other trainers in the neghborhood of
Gravesend who do not intend to miss any
early opportunities are w. z. Gilpin, whose
jumpers have had a lot of long, steady
road work. and Billy Lakeland, whose
horses, including Winged Foot have been
sent steadily along on the Boulevard.
At Morris Park Jimmy McLaughlin and
J. j. McCafferty are not letting the grass
grow under their feet. McLaughln's pres
ent intentions are to ship his horses to
Benning in about fortnight. AT the
Washington track he will rely principally
Premier in
steady work for week now, and Hi
Daddy. Walter. who will also be ex-
pected to contribute something toward the
Benning expenses, will have a trial over
the sticks, and If he shows any inclination
for that branch of the sport will be retired
from fiat racing. AS for his two-year-olds,
Mclaughlin has great hopes of Pratomas,
a youngster by Hanover, from Reina Vic
torla, dam of the good but somewhat un-
fortunate Two Bits. Another youngster
IN the string who. as yearling, showed he
was pretty shifty, is a son of Torso and
Bessie Peyton. He bears a decided resem-
blance to his somewhat slack-backed sire.
McCaffertys lot are all two-year-olds, If
one excepts the little cast iron chestnut,
Sandowne. The apple of McCafferty's eyes
Is Winged Fairy. chestnut sister to APP
ple8ate and Winged Foot This young lady
is heavily engaged, as McCafferty says he
found her as yearing to be better than
either her brother sister Another who
satisfied the observation-disclosures in his
early Trials ls tne beautifully bred Gaia
Day, an exceedingly handsome son of
Rayon dor and the stout little DAILY mare
Glory. According to the present program.
some of the youngsters will be asked to
sport silk at Benning, and these will prob
ably be Dinsmore. a son Of Buchanan
Leonara: Clockwork. by Magnetizer-Clo-
yer, and Bellpunch, by Badge -Bellegarde.
This trio shows promise of coming to hand
early.
INSPECTOR OF UMPIRES.
John Ii. Day OF New York AnDointed