Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-31
Inauguration of the Eastern Racing
Season.
IMP, THEBLACK WONDER, AT TEE TRACK
Every Stall on the Grounds Occu-
Spied.
ENTRIES 1oe MONDAY


Monday next, when the fifth spring meeting
of the Washington Jockey Club will open.
The meeting will continue daily until Sat
urday. April II, the concluding day. and
there will not be less than five races run
each day.
Following its usual custom, the club will
make the races over the jumps feature of
the meeting, and about the best timber
toppers' in training quartered at the
track, some of the best races between the
flags" of the year will be run here Every
stall at the Benning track is occupied, and
so many horses have arrived here that 1t
has been found necessary to utilize many of
the stables at the old Ivy City track. About
all of the prominent eastern jockeys will
ride during the meeting, and the results of
the racing will be watched with unusual in
terest. as most of the horses engaged will
start here for the first time this year.
The Famous Imp.
Among those to start here for the first
time this season is that great mare Imp,
the famous daughter of the imported Wag-
ner and Founding. The black wonder"
as Imp is called, by winning last years
Suburban" and other great eastern stake
events demonstrated that she Is not only
speedy but also a slayer. Indeed, by the
great majority of horsemen she is consid-
American turf, second not even to Firenzi,
Ihora or Miss Woodford. those queens Of
the turf Of years gone by. Here Imp will
be prepared for this years Suburban, and
as she is said to be in f1rst-class shape she
Is expected to start in the Benning handi-
cap Monday when she will carry the top
weight, 1s2 pounds. Those she will meet in
this race are Sidney Lucas, whose phenom-
email work here last fall as a two-year-
old gained him quite a local following;
Pa Bradley,s Boney Boy, son Of the
irOr, hfrc TI4,.
The race, a spin of six furlongs, will be
one Of unusual interest. and despite Imp's
marvellous speed and weight-carrying abili-
ty, not a few horsemen claim that she will
not by any means have a walk-over.
Mars Cassidy to Start.
Mr.. Mars Cassidy Of this city will start
the horses during the meeting, and the
regular Jockey Club officials will preside.
Mr.. S. 8. Rowland. the president of the
local club, to whose untiring energy and
vigilance the success of the organization
is in no small part due, will be the pre-
siding steward, his associates being Mr.
Samuel Ross, the vice president Of the
club, and Mr.. Jesse Brown of the executive
committee. The clubs policy of rigidly
excluding disreputable characters will be
followed and the same pains heretofore
taken to provide for the comfort of la
dies will be put forth. The attendance of the
fair sex has been very large at the
previous meetings of the club, and still
larger number Is expected during the COM
ing meeting.
The first race will be started at $40 m.
each day. at an hour which will enable
most people to see every race. Special
trains direct to the track will leave the
9th street station at 2:O4, 2:3O and S:15,
while the Columbia railway electric cars
will run direct to the grounds without
change every two minutes.
The following are the entries for Mon
day:
Entries for Mondays Races,
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
BENNING RACE TRACK, D. c., March
31.-First race, tbree-quarters of mile
Allie H, 50; Cupidity, %; King Thistle %;
Magic Light, 104; Tourney, 1O5; Sidney Luz
cas-. 1OS; Lady Lindsey, 113; Gen. Mart.
Gary, us; Corvallis, 100.
Second race, two-year- olds, half mile
Scurry, 100; Thoroughbred, 49, Nettie New
comb 100; Della Gee, 100; Lightball. 100;
112; Connie, 100.
Third race. maiden steeplechase, about
two miles-Emory. 1877; Lovelorn, 1856; La
russ, 1i9; Rifler 161; Conflicting Evidence
1873; Tamor, 1877; Cosmopolitan, 1877.
Fourth race, first Benning handicap, three
fourths of a mile-Imp, 1872; counsellor Wern-
berg, ia; Lady Lindsey. 1OO Charentus, 100;
Cupidity, 81 Brisk, 100; Kentucky Colonel,
107: Prince of Vernoa, lib; knight of the
Garter, 1G7 Robert Metcalf. 95; Boney Boy,
JOG; Sidney Lucas, 100; Gen. Mart Gary
lol; Golden Rattle, IS; Speedmas, 96; Lex
ington Pirate 90
Fifth race, selling. one mile and forty
yards-Asquith, 100; Hold Up. 1903: Harry |
Lucesco, 92; Matt Simpson. 80; Diminutive
1Ol; Mouzeltoff, JOB.
The following entries are coupled: Third |
race Lovelorn. Larusse, c. H. Hurkamp |
fourth race: Counsellor Weinberg, Lady |
Lindsey, ]. Mclaughlin; Charentus Cupid |
ity, O. L. Richards; Kentucky Colonel, |
Prince of Verona, A. H. and D. H. Morris; |
Knight of the Garter, Robert Metcalf, P. |
S. p. Randolph. |