Kansas City journal., 1898-03-07
RACING SEASON IN WEST WILL OPEN
AT LITTLE ROCK.
NEW ORLEANS CLOSING DAY.
NASHVILLE, NEWPORT AND MEN,
PHIs FOLLOW IN ORDED NAMED.
Meeting Mt st. Louis Fair Grounds
Will BE Inaugurated May H.
Charlie. T.. Patterson to Di-
vide His Stables-Many
Cyclists Coming.


ing In the order named. 1t is now settled
that the st. Louis fair grounds meeting will
be inauSurated this year on Saturday, May
IL The inaugural will be run on that day.
Curly Brown has been reappointed starter
at the Newport track, opposite Cincinnati.
Curly gave great satisfaction there last
year and Cincinnati folks now look on him
as the best man with the flag in America.
Kilt Chinn will handle the flag at the Mem
phis meeting, and will probably go with
Judge NJ. Lewis Clarke from there to the
Louisville meeting, which opens May 4.
The statement published in certain papers
that Dan HONG of ST. Louis had been sus-
pended at the Oakland track Tor the IN
and-out running of his horses scarcely did
land judges simply sent for Mr. Honigs
trainer 10 have him explain the running Oh
Our Climate. 1t was shown that the horse
has only run poorly on muddy track, ana
that he does not like the going. Dan HONG
did not bet "A cent on his horse and did not
mink he had chance. The day ne was
beaten, however, Dan had $li5 on him.
The New Orleans meeting will close on
March 80. the day Little Rock opens. The
Crescent City Derby, worth 5000, will be
run on that day. From this distance IL
looks as though }. W. Schorr had 1t as good
as won with Lieber Karl and Presbyterian,
whichever he selects TO send, with Burns
up. although the field will be the best that
has ever gone to the post in a S-year-old
stake that far South. Some OF the best OF
the eligible list are now being pointed for
the event at Memphis.
Charles T. Patterson has so many horses
In his stable he has decided to divide 1t.
lie will take four-Ornament Burlesque.
May Hamstead and Fonso colt of great
promise-East with him and leave the rest
In the West TO be raced by his brother,
George Patterson, and Hiram Pierce.
Mr.. Patterson has denied the story that
he sold Ornament to Mr.. William c. Whit
will run in his colors until he is unfit for
racing, and then he Will be retired to the
stud. Ornament is at Memphis going
through his limbering up work now Ten
nessee has been favored by a particularly
early spring, and the horses wintering
at Montgomery and Cumberland Park are
in good shape.
1t is believed that the Crescent City.
Arkansas and Tennessee Derbys. the Mont
aomery handicap and the Peabody Hotel
stakes, the greatest of the early spring
moro starters this season than they have
had before I'm years. Colonel McGugan's
horses and the strings of J. W. Schorr g.
Sons, K. s. Gardiner & Co., T. P. Hayes
and G. c. Bennett besides many smaller
stables. are quartered at the Memphis and
Little Rock tracks.
Cumberland park. and still another at
Churchill Downs. and from every quarter
the reports come that the horses are .un-
usually forward. recent arrival! at Mont
gomery park was the Canadian horseman,
A. NJ. Orpen. Mr.. Orpen has old Brandy
wine in his string. and will send him 70 the
post in the Montgomery handicap. He has
one or two older horses also and batch
of 2-year-olds by Luke Blackburn, Saliva
tor 1roquois. Buenos Ayres. Inspector B.,
Clarendon. Destruction and Longstreet.
In Mr.. Schorrs string are the S-year-olds
Presbyterian and Lieber Karl. the best
horses. perhaps. in his stable. Presbyterian
was returned to Memphis a few days after
he won the preliminary derby at New Or
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in the damp Louisiana climate. He will be
shipped back to New Orleans with Lieber
derby. Presbyterian is engaged n all the
prominent Eastern stakes for S-yeSr-olds.
and If Lieber Karl runs in the Crescent
city derby up to his 2-year-old form he will
Schorr string Immediately. If Lieber Karl
fails he will be kept at Memphis to go in
the Tennessee derby, which Mr.. Schorr is
anxious TO win.
Lieber Karl is destined for a campaign
and am 'es early SUNNI sumner land and s unless John @ Mad s
den sends Plaudit out there 1t Is believed
that he will have pretty much his own
way in the Kentucky. St. Louis and Oakley
derbys, and in the other rich 3-year-o!d
stakes that Ornament won last year; He
may appear in the metropolitan circuit
later in the season.
Richard Croker is hurrying the political
steeds in the Tammany stable so that
everything will be in order and every stake
horse. selling-pater and political plug will
be in condition for the great ra.ss,n race next 1t
sail for England in April. so as to be in
time to see Dobbins receive his preparation
for the Jubilee stakesat a mile In which
the sturdy old campaigner is asked to carry
only ninety-six pounds. If Dobbins regains
the form which he showed in the Tidal
makers will wish they had gone long on
Met and Man.
Mr.. Croker's Rhoda B.. slashing daugh-
ter of Hanover is almost certain to give
yopd Of herself In the stakes In
England in which she is entered. Rhoda b.
suffered severely from sore mouth last
do herself justice. Mr.. Croker has fifteen
highly bred broodmares in England, all of
which have been mated with Americus
this year.
circular has been issued in which a
scheme for mutual racing company" is
proposed. The circular says that II Is the
plan of this company Ito buy at fair prices
good and tried racing stock seasoned CAM
paigners only), consistent horses that have
won races. and not so into the lottery of
huying yearlings urtried 2-year-olds.
The company Is said to be negotiating with
a competent trainer but no names are
given The office address of the company
IS mentioned but there are no hints as to
the Identity of officers or managers. The
comforting assurance is held out that
none of the company's money will be
ucd TO wager upon its own or other horses"
The circular says further: No tips
will he given to stockholders anyone
else. II being the purpose of the company
TO remove everything in connection with
ii as far possible from the general run
of fake newspaper advertising tipsters'
and the like. On the other hand. those of
tho company's stockholders who NAV be
speculativnly inclined can rest assured that
when the company starts horse in a race
he will bc thoroughly fit. and run TO win
No horse of the company will be started in
!; race for work unless in the opinion
of The companys trainer, he has chance
10 win"
The company invites subscription for
500 000 in stock. with shares of So $40 and
Se5 each. Dividends are TO he declared at
the end of each race meeting, and checks
Tor same sent to the stockholders
The extreme OF lightness in the construc-
tion of wheels was reached several years
with more regard to lesseninS weight than
To obtaining stability, the result being that
many were buckled. For the last year or
TWO there has been a reaction. and now
no wheel Is Put out at weight so small
as TO impair its stanchness.
This year the weight is almost the same
as was last year. Road machines weigh
from twenty-four 10 twenty-seven pounds:
and one-half pounds. and ladies' wheels
from twenty-siX to twenty-eight pounds.
The weight, of course. varies somewhat
, with the equipment, and can usually be
lessened more or less by stripping some of
the fixtures. Some makers will claim less
weights than these mentioned. but the
scales fail to substantiate their statements
and the weights given Will he found right.
If an average is taken. II anything. the '9S
wheel is from a half pound TO q pound
heavier than the wheel of 81.
The chainless wheels, of course. are
heavier The makers of the lghtest assert
that IL weighs trifie less than twenty
seven mounds but the scale test brings
,l,gr ID x,-l,l =.