The Indianapolis journal., 1902-03-30

will then visit Castleton. his stock farm.
From Track and stable.
r. f. Watkins recently bought the horse
Thebor at New Orleans for Sl,l0O.
Billy Lakeland has seventeen head OF
runners in training at Brighton Beach
Rrazu. the weII-known steeplechase
Jockey. is working hard for reinstatement.
Green B. Morris heads the list of cali
fornia winners with $21,0c TO the creolI
of his stables.
Snlan predicts that Dan Patch. 2:O4le,
viii heat the record of his sire, Joe Patch
en-, 2:01A, this year.
All the stable room at Montgomery Park
has been filled. and many of the late comers
have been forced TO go outside.
There are more thoroughbreds at cum
berland Park. Nashville, Tenn. than nave
been in training there for years
George Bennett. who is now. racing at
Little Rock has a big bunch OF tWo-year-
olds, some of which are very promising
Cash Sloan has secured for Jockey Rut-
ter an engagement to ride in France TOT
5000 and Rutter has sailed for Europe
The Year Book gives the total number OF
standard performers as 2oSzt, OF VII Mnlon
number Il, 625 are trotters and 3, OZ PAGERS
The Lafayette Qnd.) fair programme car
ries eight $500 purses for harness horses
and several smaller ones for the gallopers'
William c. Whitney's great mare Thora
is barren. She was bought in 1897, from
Charles Reed, of Fairview Stud. for $1,000.
The California racing season ends on
April "a Up to that time the CLUB Will
have distributed 100000 in stakes ana
purses.
Horse Review Futurity, of $4,000 exceed
! all former records. The total NUMBER re-
! ceived is 1850.
Jockey Willie Shaw, who is to get $1,000
for riding for James r. Keene this season,
h,s arrived in New York from his nome
| in Indian Territory.
Captain James Rees. who has for years
been rated as the most capable racing OF,
| fetal in the South and West, has decided
| to quit the turf for good
| Fred Gerken is talking of putting The
Monk. 2:OS14, and The Abbot, 2:OS44, together
| and trying to break the world s doupie-
team record at the Empire City track.
The fact that The Paraders feet are rot
ting and that he may have to be DESTROYED
! will be a heavy blow to his owner, h l.
Wilson. of New York, who values the stall
| lion at $4,000.
7. w. Dininger. of Portland, Ind, will
! ship his stable to the indianapolis track
+, about May /. Mr.. Dillinger will have Mag
! gle Anderson, 2:11h; r. r. johnson, 2:2514,
! and other good prospects.
Dick Berry will train about nine head
this season, among them The Bishop.
2:O7ls; Henry G.. 2:2714; Famine, green
and a promising flly by Guy Princeton.
| Frank l.. Clark, trainer for II. c. Web
ster, is working six head. They are Bugle
Call, pig; Mary Tudor trial 20 % by Een
Wilkes; Lagazzel, by Sternberg, dam by
| Wilkes
George c. Bennett has notified Chicago
parties who are anxious to buy Abe Frank
| that $50. 900 will not purchase the colt. Abe
Frank is favorite in the early betting on
the American Derby to be run at Chicago
about June l.
II. G. Winnings will have in his stable at
the fair grounds Ebba, 2:1415, by Red
| Wilkes; Simmore. 2:19A, by Simmons;
Edith Hartzel, trial 215; Ondale son of
| Onward, and green PAGER by Guy Prince
ton that is a great prospect
c. Young. owner of the horse Judge
| Steadman has returned to the New Or
| leans Jockey Club the money won at that
place and will be reinstated. Judge Stead
| man was not properly registered and was
| improperly entered in his races.
Mart Demarest will go TO Hartford next
| week TO prepare his campaigning stable for
| the seasons races. Among the good ones
in his stable are Prince Alert. 2:OO24 Joe
| Mark, PISA; Walter Keim, 2:11A; Confes-
! scr, 2:12A; Gamin, 2:lih; Victoria, 2:l7A,
| and Masconomo.
Horace Wilson has turned over the office
| of secretary of the Kentucky Trotting
| Horse Breeders Association to Elliott
! Shanklin and will leave Lexington to-day
to assume his duties as secretary of the
! Empire City track at New York
The new grand stand in course of con-
| struction at the Columbus (O.) track to re-
! place the one destroyed by fire last fall
will be one of the finest structures of the
| kind in the middle West. 1t will be en-
| tireiy of steel and will be built along the
most approved and up-to-date lines.
Wesley Stout will have Hal Foster 2:15A:
| LADY Poem, trotter. by Poem. 2:111h: Jack
| 219I4, by Hambrino-Le Ferree by Ander-
son Wilkes a great prospect; Globe Wilkes,
| trial 2:17, and colt by Shadeland Onward,
| owned by John Swigart, of Muncie. that
with limited training went a mile last year
| in 2:17.
Things at the State fair grounds are be-
lcyiY, mi, 70 hrfcf
| trainers are beginning TO jog their horses
and are getting things in shape for work.
| The half-mile track is laid out and work
! on 1t will begin in a few days. When this
track is completed ii will be an ideal place
| for training. More horses will be handled
| this year than ever before.
Why all this fuss about the distance flag?
| Why not add a rule to the effect that the
| last horse under the wire in each heat shall
| be sent TO the barn, thus doing away with
the distance stand? Either this or divide
! the fields into sections, letting only heat
winners compete after first heat. Or. if
| thought best allow winners and those fin
ishing second the first heat compete in sub
| sequent heats. This is the plan followed
| at athletic meetings, and what is good for
man is said TO be good for a horse.-The
Western Horseman.
Frank Bogash, the able and popular Fort
! Wayne driver, will have some promising
trotters in the Centlivre Bros stable this
| year. In the lot are a number of the get
| of Atlantic King, 2:0914. The following com
1
O., 2:O6; May King. twO-year-old trial 2:25:
green trotter by Atlantic King dam by
Simmons. a very promising trotter Wayne
! King, 2:19A, over half-mile track; Red
| King, by Atlantic King. dam by Red Bell.
a very fast colt. and number of two-year-
olds that are promising.
A PIP trotter will this year be able TO
| participate i'm $4,000 worth of stakes and
| purses There are no less than thirty eligi-
| BILE horses to the class and should anv fan
| by the waysde in the sereve preparation
| to come, there will be new sensational Dar-
| formers to take their places nearly ALI
| races of this kind having a substitution
| clause. The richest purse race of the
| year, the Massachusetts, of $1,000 is
| PIP class and it has closed with eighteen
! nominations Among those intended as
| starters are the following: Volo. 2:12IS:
| Sue, 2:121a; Belle Kuser, 2:l124; Confessor
! 2:l21a; Walter Keim. 2:1124: Galbetor. 2:I115;
| Rowellan, 2:l5k, Leola, 2:11% Ruth Nj
| 2:l31a; Juntorio; Idolita. 2:12: Miss Whitney
| 2:1114; Hamward. 2:1212; Alice Barnes 2:1III
| Iva Dee, 21212; CoXey, 2:1S; Dan l., PHI
| Every horseman who has looked over
| Volume IL of the year Book finds some
| thing TO complain of. The Horseman says
| OF it: In form and style il is dunlicate
| OF Volumes Is and Is. but contains ten
more pages than did the book of last wear
As work of reference the Year Book
| possesses its usual value but il is not
above criticism in so far as the records of
the most noted performers are concerned
IL Is a matter of regret that the official