The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
Prospects for a Good Meeting
Never Were SO Bright at
Clinton Park.
Some CRACK TW0-fEAR-0LDS.
Schreiber's Carohurn and Stevens's
Governor Foraker Filly Are
About the Fastest Young
sterS in Arkansas.
REPvBIIC SPECIAL.

REPI BllC SPECIAL
Little Rock. Ark. March 15-Clnton Park
as usual uAhers in the Western legitimate
racing season and does it this year under
| especially pleasant prospects. The unex-
anpled popularity which racing has at
tanned and which made the New orleans
season. now drawing to a close. the most
successful in the history of the Crescent
City, is apparent here, and everything
points to better fields Of better horses than
has ever been the case in the short meet
il,g OF six days given here every spring.
There is a garland Of sentiment around the
sport in Little Rock which is absent in
places where the meetings are drawn out
for practically indefinite periods. and the
people OF the town seem to regard 1t as
duty to attend the stake days just
they did in the old circuit days when Free
land was king.
There are enough horses here now to
give successful meeting. but more are
continually coming in and Ed Maginn will
have little trouble in finding enough horses
to bring 4 well-balanced held TO the post
in every race. Interest of course centers
in the Derby. for which, at the present
time, Tom Stevenss Wadsworth colt, Barca.
and George Benefits Au Revoir seem the
nkeieSt Candidates.
FEAR OF FEVER IS FOOLISH.
If Jim Arthur concludes 10 send Rankin
up from New Orleans ii will give the race
a new aspect, for the advantage of the
seasoning he has had would make him
hard horse TO beat. II is reported here,
however, that he will not come, because
ne fears the fever, which attacked the
Schneider horses 1t appears. however.
that Mr.. Schreiber's lot must have been in
fecteG when they came, as not single
horse in any other barn on the ground has
suffered from any ailments whatever.
The Schneider lot have come through very
nicely, and there is no sign of sickness,
even among his horses. So Arthur would
be taking no risk at all. Barca and Au
Revoir Will he got ready in workouts ard
will make their maiden starts OF the year
in the Derby here. Both have worked WELL
Au Revoir Is credited with mile over the
Memphis track in better than l:iI. and
Barea has been caught here in about the
same tirno. There are lots OF other eIis1-
bles. but the only other one shat seems
TO attract attention here IS J. u. Strodes
Josette. Her races at New Orleans. how
ever. Indicate a liking Tor neither weight,
distance nor a fast track. SO it would APP
pear that whoever touted he- as = Derby
possibility must have had . rather vivid
Imagination
SOME CRACK YOUNGSTERS.
Most interest will. OF course. be felt in
the 2-year-olds They open the meeting with
the very first race. and the opening day
stake. the Capital Hotel Stake. is for the
youngsters. Just what they are Is. of
course. largely speculative. but they are
certainly a beautifully bred lot. every sire
OF prominence in the country being repre-
sented. Most interest would probably have
been felt in the showing of Barney Schrei-
bers Bannockburn lilly, carroburn but she
Will not start then, nor for some time. She
was well worn down by the fever. which
seemed to have picked out the bast horses
In the barn, but In her trials prior TO her
illness she gave evidence Of beirg able to
run like a ghost OF the youngsters here,
Tom Stevens seems to have the fastest In
a hily by Governor Foraker out OF Emily S.
She is about ready to 60 TO the races now.
and looks like a good one.
Unlike the other youngsters by this sire.
she seems endowed with early speed, and
will have to be caught in the stretch If she
nicely bred ones eligible, and couple or
these are reported as working very fast at
meeting. the Anheuser- Busch selling, which
Is to be run on the closing day, has in a
well-balanced lot Of shifty platers: The
st. Tammany, who has been doing so well at
New Orleans this winter, though Tommy
says he will give him an argument with Lee
Bruno. who was in such exceptionally good
form at st. Louis two years ago. This son
Of Of Free Knight nigh has been going very well IN
horse as he ever was in his line.
OLD WAX TAPER ON DECK
Two Montgomery Handicap candidates are
having finishing touches put on their prep
aration here. and both will be given a race
TO key them up to their best effort before
the meeting ends. Thesa two are Wax
Taper who is scheduled to carry 1l6 pounds
at Memphis, and barney schreiber's Dewey.
who is in at l05 Wax Taper looks excep
iionaly we'll about the body. but his trent
legs are apparently as bad as ever and fill
up more or less every time he is worked. |
Captain Rice. nevertheless, thinks very well
of him, and if ne shows well here he will |
be a certain starter at Memphis. Neither
Rice nor Brant. who is handling the Schrei-
Der horses. seems deferred by McChesney's |
greatness and regard him as another War
ing.