The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-15
CRACK COLTS FOR
JUVENILE CHAMPION
Scotch Dance, Imboden. Molinos
and Otto Stifel Eligible
to Big Stake.
MISS CRAWFORD NOT IN RACE.
Major Pelham Is Also Missing, but
Walnut Hill, Frank Carr and
Other Good Ones Will
Go to the Post.

The juvenile championship of the ST.
Louis racing season is generally settled by
the result of the Junior Championship
Stakes. which is down for decision next
Saturday. but unfortunately the two best
youngsters developed at the Fair Grounds
this spring. namely Major Pelham and
Miss Crawford, are not eligible to start in
the stake
Major Pelham won the kindergarten
Stakes in the most impressive manner,
While Miss Crawford has won her two
starts here In the handiest kind of fashion.
mere Is absolutely no doubt of the fact
that she is a filly of considerable class.
Miss Crawford and Orient, the winner Of
the Debutante Stakes. have never met, but
hgurins on their respective performances
Miss Crawford is probably the best filly of
the pair. Miss Crawford is owned here in
st. Louis, being the property of W. w.
Darden, while Orient is owned by Hayes
d Headley. 1t is pity that Miss Craw-
lord Is not in the Junior Championship. Her
owners tried hard TO win the stake last
year with j. Sidney Walker, but that colt
nag i;s,s 10 play second fiddle to Albert Frank
ms speedy filly. Olefiant.
The pick of the engibles to the Junior
Chamn1plonship seems to be Doctor Parrish's
eNSeilent Guido colt. Scotch Dance. Nose
y
Mafaida, Tom Stevens's Walnut Hill and
John w. Schorr's Molinos. The latter is
hardly apt to start. however. as Mr. Scnorr
has all his good horses in the East. Doctor
Parrish's Scotch Dance won a rich juvenile
stake at kinloch this spring and is evident
y a cot Of considerable class. lie is now
Louis until fall ~
FRANK CARR is FAST
mGctor Parrish also has lmboder in the
Junior Championship. Fred Cook has sew
eral colts in this stake the best of which
Is SAID to be Frank Carr by knight of
Ellersie-Miss Fonso. Carr ran third in a
last race at Harlem the other day. Lucky
rom stevens stands an excellent chance of
winning, the stake with Walnut HILL Tom
Tep1sra aro 1 Mb % Wnn,b
pionship is decided over a course OF five
and half fur.ongs
More than 50 per cent of the favorites
Grounds last week. Nineteen first choices
Won IN thirty-seven races. Thursday was
a great day for the hackers of favorites
Five first choices won in a row. commencing
with Miss Crawford and ending up with
Dolly Gray. which was backed into favCr>
itism over Kitty G. Saturday three pro,
kisme and Hilee.
The, followers of the Crawford Darden
confederacy killed the ring with Miss Craw-
ford. but lost most of their winnings back
again on the stables entry in the Derby
Grover Cleveland Baker has a colt in
the Junior Championship called Dale by
named for the well-known race rider. There
are other colts in this stake which We're
called after well-known st. Louis men,
OTTO STIFEL ON SHELF.
Schneider has a colt named Otto Stifel.
by Sain-Wetumka. in the Junior Cham
pionship. This youngster is credited with
having outworked every 2-year-old at Little
Rock this spring. He was taken sick, how
ever, Just as they We're getting ready to
race him, and has been on the shelf ever
since
Schneider named Otto Stifel in honor of
Well-known brewer and Republican politi-
clan. Mr.. Stifel was on the turf himself
ten years ago. Pop Gray, Servitor. Weight
man. Colonel s.. Watauga and Jim Head
are some of the well-known horses that
sported his colors
Zach Mulhail has colt in the stake called
h. F. Hoakum by Poteen-Fraulein, which
Is named in honor of the president of the
st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. Zach
bred B. F. Yoakum on his ranch in Okla
homa. Mulhall is the general live stock
agent of the Frisco line. and he would
hardly name a colt in honor of his chief
that had not at least showed some promise
as a yearling.
Barney Schneider has another colt in the
Junior Championship named Gene Handlan.
by Sain-Marjorie. Gene Handlan is named
after Eugene Handlan n prominent young
St. Louis business man. Tom Rowe by
Sligo-Etta Gilroy. is entered in the Junior
Championship in the name of John Huff
man. This colt was named for ST. Louis
attorney.