The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-10
SPORTING NEWS.
Few Good Colts Are Developed
So Far. This Year.
Brings No Great Runners Save
On the Coast.
AMONG BEST FTITTES
AMONG BEST FILLIES
SOfala and Miss Bennett Are
Considered Wonders.
TOah and NJ. F. Tarpey Lead the
TwO-Year-Olds.

Chicago, April 10.-The racing season of
1900, so far as it is gone, has furnished
some surprises for the talent. 1t may be
set down as a fact that, outside of Cali
fornia, not a really great 2-year-old colt
has shown, and even on the coast the
good ones have been few and car be-
tween. Toah and NJ. F. Tarpey, both of
whom are from the Corrigan stable, are
apparently the star performers. That
either of them is the equal of Golden
Rule, the coast sensation of 1899, remains
to be proved.
Among the 2-year-old fllies two bright
lights already have appeared in Miss
Bennett. who made her debut at the Lit
tie Rock meeting and ran like a hDy of
high class, and Sofala, Barney Schriebers
great little racing machine, pronounced
by California critics to be the best of her
sex shown on the coast in the last ten
years. California form in many respects
has been misleading, but the Schneider
nlly must be a wonder indeed, as out of
her thirteen starts she has placed eleven
races to her credit beating the best of
the coast 2-year-old division.
To be so highly praised by the coast
critics she must indeed be a. wonder, for
the average Californian is prone to believe
that nothing wonderful in the equine rae
ing line can be bred outside of his own
state, and Sofala was bred not in Cali
fOrnia, but in Missouri.
Briar Sweet was in her day the idol of
the coast racegoers, and for them to adj
nit that Sofala is the superior animal
she must have shown form of a high
class, for the name and fame of Brfar
Sweet were a topic of which the Califor
mans never seemed to tire
1t seems at this distance as if Sofala's
owner might study with profit the ex-
perience that Louis Ezel had with his
crack FLY Espionage two years ago. As
a 2-year-old Espionage was the crack FLY
of the west. but she was shipped from
Dan to Beersheba, figuratively speaking,
and fairly raced off her feet before she
had had chance to mature As a result
she was but little account as a 3-year-old
and bids fair to be of little less as a 4
year-Old.
Schreiber seems likely to ruin Sofala in
the same way, and if she does not per-
form up to expectations on this side OF
the Rockies it will be simply because she
already has been given too much of it..
The performances of F. w. Brode, the
Schorr Derby candidate, have served to
cheaper his pretensions to consideration
as of high class. though it is yet much
too early in the season to class him as
The tracks at New Orleans and Mem
phis are soft and deep as compared with
| the pasteboard tracks in California over
| which his best performances were made,
and it may be that further up the line he
| viii find something more to his liking.
| The tracks in this vicinity, when in good
! condition. are very like the California
tracks and it is, therefore, among the
| possibilities that F. ". Brode's true form
| will not be shown until Chicago is reach
The only colt of anything like Derby
| class that has shown in actual contests IS
| The Conqueror, and how ne VIII acqull
| himself in a genuine Derby field IS &c
| be shown.
That he was short in his first essay al
New Orleans, in the Crescent City Derby
| was shown by his subsequent perform
| ance at Little Rock, where he ran like 6
real stake animal and just now it look:
| division at the Memphis track.
In the all aged class nothing of rea
stake quality has appeared, the wl IaI17l
better than a selling platter and it IS i'm
| probable that the real handicap horses
will make their appearance before Louis
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