The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13
EASTERN 'TWO-YEAR-OLDS
HAVE SHOWN LITTLE CLASS.
Youngsters Seen at 3ennings Ha We Beaten One Another Time and
Again-None of Them Seem S to Show Superiority and
1t Is Difficult to Pick the Future Winners.

2-year-old FLIES of the meeting. They have
the others put away for the four and ioEr
and a half furlong races we VIII see AT
Bennings.
Blue Delft Looks Like u Slayer.
Blue Delft. the big Ornament filly. owned
by Hennen and Dave Morris, Is not quick
enough at the start to successfully compete
with them. She stands Is hands IL :ncf.es
or her plates. and Is = trifie legCy. in spite
of her general look OF quality. Her feet are
too far away from the center of the nervous
forces generating the energy that moves
them to he handled rapidly. Wait i hit IN
Blue Delft. once in motion. she can SHOW a
fine burst of speed. and II is 10 TO l that
she VIII stay a distance. Perhaps better than
the youngsters that have beaten her here.
She is a very steady, even-teimpered flly,
sesses courage in the highest degree, she
never knows when she is licked, and the
the stretch is apt TO he beaten. II she rad
got TO Alan the other day as Toscan DID
she would have come pretty close 1" VIM
ming.
AtieIinGs Arc Fast n
Amazing Quickness at the post are the
striking characteristics of Alan and Morca.
Horsemen and turf patrons who have heen
watching the races here and around New
York for the last twenty years declare that
they have never seen a horse that could
outbreak either one of them They spring
away from the barrier like frightened jack
rabbits. and are far away from their rivals
before their rivals know the race is on. Alan
and T'oscan broke head and head in their
match race. yet the AthelinS hlly was a
length and 4 half or two lengths TO the
good when she reached the timers flag.
Her furlOng in IL S-5 in the three-inches-
deep Bennings sand was remarkably good.
Captain Fred Presgrave. the trainer and
manager of the Goughacres string. says he
does not know which is the. better flly.
Alan or Morca. They were close together
them would be much account when they
came to race. He was pleasantly surprised
when he discovered that he had the two
crack FLIES of the Bennings meeting.
Morca Is as quick as Alan at the post
and can get just as far away from a field
in a 1oO-yard dash. Like Alan. she Is Of
quarters. a fine middle piece and four clean.
muscular legs. Neither of these daughters
of Atheling has straight pasterns. They
size ordinarily own. and Captain Presgrave
believes that they will grow. Neither Morca
nor Alan has been asked to pick up a big
weight yet. but there is no reason on earth
for supposing that they will not be able to.
They have sloping shoulders and short,
muscular backs.
The Goughacre stable will bear watching.
Morca and Alan are not the best young
sters by the imported son of Sterling in It.
They are two Of the ordinary ones. The
stars are at Cape Charles, and there are
one or two winners among them. Captain
Presgrave is developing them for the Nor
ris Park meeting. Morca and Alan will
OF the stable will be shipped direct to Morris
Park. Captain Presgrave divides his time
between Cape Charles and Bennings. In his
absence from Bennings Mr.. Weston. the
clever Kentucky trainer, who developed The
Kentuckian and The Puritan for Edward
Simms. attends to the Washington string.
blue and orange n Fair Colt.
Blue and Orange is the only youngster in
Jimmie McLaughlin's string that appears
just now to possess any class. He is a very
fast colt. His poor showing on the occasion
of his first appearance under colors was due
TO his poor rider.
With wonderly up. on March 81. Blue and
Orange was a different colt. He outbroke
and he outran Julia Lyston. Tribesman.
Juggernaut and Charlotte Newman, and
won running away. His withdrawal from
the race in which Alan and Toscan per-
formed SO creditably was a disappointment
to the Washington crowd but 1t was not
the result of fear on McLaughlin's part
that Blue and Orange would be unable to
hold his own with the Hastings colt and the
Atheling filly.
Mr.. Mclaughlin thinks highly of Blue and
Orange. and believed on that dav that he
could have won. He did not feel disposed
however. to make a promising colt run such
a hard race so early in the season. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin saws he can afford to wait.