The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-23
SPORTING NEWS.
Colt Limit Not Approved by
Many HOrsemen.
Owners Enter Their Two Year.
OIds at the Tracks.
EXPERIENCE VALUED.
Jeffries to Begin His Training
This Week.
Selects AIIenhurst as Point to
Prepare Himself.

New Orleans, La, Jan. 23.-While few
1deal1sts, given to discoursing at great
length and long distance upon that we'll
worn theme What the Turf Needs" ex-
press a yearning for the Limitation of
races for 2-year-olds and the postpone
ment of their assumption of the burden
of racing until some time in June in or
der that they may attain a healthier and
sturdier growth in their maturity, it
must be noticed that practical turfmen
who breed in approved lines or buy In
the best market are not so set against
giving their youngsters as early start as
few years ago.
Each succeeding year sees a better class
of owners of a better or more promising
class of baby race horses taking advant-
winter tracks, here and in California OPP
portunities make racing and mold the
argue warmly in favor of the higher
ideals"-they may think with the theor-
2-year-olds in the paddocks and in the
barns until the season is wen advanced,
remain idle while 1.-The other fellows"
who are not burdened with lofty notions,
are T gT'fill 2i OF R9 W6 5l4R IN RACES
With what is called the regular sea-
ds s wfa its b Piee @ awarS fer 2a aF
olds at this season of the year necessarily
must be Wei advanced IN thelr edueatlo91
their speed Sharpened in the actual con-
fiict as well as in mere work. Barring
those chances must be taken sooner or
later-the work obtained in races is more
useful work than that which is obtained
in the morning drills against the watch.
Besides the physical benefits TO be OBJ
tanned the youngsters learn, while their
dispositions are in a formative state, the
lesson of what is required of them,
Charles L. Patterson, who has had great
success in the handling of 2-year-olds.
having brought out such stars as Sui
sun, Ornament, Burlesque and May
Hampstead, believes In taking advantage
of early opportunities 1t is true that
after bringing out May Hampstead here
two years ago he lost the use of her at
time when she might have been win
ming rich stakes, but this was the result
of an accident after she had been re-
MORRISES RESERVE YEARLINGS.
A. H. and D. H. Morris, the output of
whose breeding establishments in Mary
land and Texas is abundant, reserve a
large portion of their yearlings to be
raced as 2-year-olds before they are put
racing string. They parted with one of
the most promising young sires in the
country when they sold st. Florian, but
they have in their barn here some of the
a FLY called Stripes, whose dam is the
former queen of the Sprinting division.
Correction Stripes has been burning up
the tracks" in her work and the reports
make her a favortte when she makes her
debut in the Premier stakes Wednesday.
The Morrises, by the way, have made a
pleasing departure in their selection of
some, jawzbreaking, peaee-destroying
handles as Huizpochti and Physiological
rice upon their colts and FLIES, they come
out this year with a batch of euphOniouS
monosyllable titles. such as Quiz (Whom
they sold as yearling), Stripes, Plead
and Choice,