The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-19
CUMBERLAND PARK
CLUB SATISFIED
Denial That There Is Any Com
plaint Over Allotment of Its
Spring Dates.
IS BUILDING NEW STABLES.
Many Crack Racers Are Winter
ing There. and Outlook Is
for a Brilliant Twelve
Days Meeting.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPU BI.Ic SPECIAL.
Nashville. Tenn. Dec. lS.-The Racing
Board Of Cumberland Park has arranged
its programme for the twelve-day spring
meeting. which begins April 20. There
will be six stakes. the only additional one
being for steeplechase horses, with Sl,01o
added.
The Cumberland Derby will have $3.50
added. and will be at the sarre distance
as formerly. one and one-eighth mile.
The Citizens Handicap will have $50
added. and will be for 3-year-oids and
upward. distance one and one-sixteenth
mile. The Gerst Brewing Selling Stake
will nave SI.CJ1 added and will be once
around the ring. The Avonda1e. for colts.
and the Belle Meade. for FLIES. will BE-
the 2-year-old events. Each will have
;l.vpp added. Entries will close January
Il All stakes viii be fixtures. from year
TO year
JUMPING RACES POPULAR.
As steeplechaSe racing has grown so
popular at this point. liberal provision
will also be made for the jumpers in the
programme book. This fall five jumping
races were given during the fall meeting
Of seven days and in nearly every event
the contests were close and evciting.
The programme for the twelve days
will call for more than so 60 in added
money. No purse will b given for less
than 800. and will range UP to s601. The
$3.50 purses will he given only for cheaper
races. such as cheap selling races. etc.
The Duncan. Maxwell and Utopia handi-
caps. during the meeting. will each have
s5oD added. Nashville will have a grand
meeting.
As there are more stables wintering
here than formerly. 1T will be necessary
10 build a few additional barns before
the spring meeting to accommodate the
horsa,nen that will come here. y forty
stall barn will be built below the Hendrix
barr. and another OF the same size above
the HAYES stable. No one has ever been
turned away from Cumberland Park for
want OF stable room.
NO KICK ABOUT DATES.
Every paragraph nearly that has been
written relative to those dissatisfied with
their racing dates for 1905 has had Nash
vile among those who were displeased
with what was handed out by the Jockey
Club in the way of dates. Nashville has
no kick to make. The club got twelve
days, wanted no more, and Is entirely sat
isfed with the allotment.
Many needed improvements VIII he
made. the principal one being the building
OF bank jumps for the steeDlechase course.
WINTER TRAINING.
The weather this week has been rather
unpleasant for winter training. The bet
ter part of the time the main track has
been frozen in the morning. and the COW
cred track resorted to. Trainers, as
rule are going slow with their charges.
T. p. Hayes and Will Hayes. as we'll as
VIII McDaniels. John Walters and E. 5.
Gardner. have kept their yearlings in ac-
tive training every day. while many Of
their older division have been turned out
for awhile.
Cumberland Park is alive with horses.
Every individual barn is tiiled and many
are stabbed along the shed rows. There
are several stables here getting ready for
the Hot Springs meeting. 7. p. Hayes
will carry small but select bunch down
and race there a least two months. John
F'err!ss and Scott Harlan will also race
A stable at that point. All viii! ship the
last Of this or early next week.
Lady Jocelyn- the good mare belonging
10 Scott Harlan. has developed quarter
crack. and will have to be let up on in
her training for few days.
W. II. Bissell has sent his stable Of
NGdTllIRS 10 IlIilbflldllNl fdIh iOl tllt VIII
ter. They number eight head. Other
stables are expected here next week.
among the number being that Of Wood
Clay. Those stables already on the local
grounds are William Gerst. W. W. Dar-
den. Z. R. Bradley. John Greener. Frank
Bruins. Harry Franklin. Z. s. Gardner.
] VI. johnson. S. z. Farmer, A Brown
George Hendrie. John Ferriss. K. g. Bald
win. Clyde Gaiena. Abe Sivcrstein, R c.
Briea, Jake Beaver. Abe Crockett. c. A
Allen. ]. 8 Ward. J. F. Stewart. Allen &
GafEey. ]. VI. Johnson. VIII Shields. VIII
Shafer and others.
CUMBERLAND PARK DERBY.
Entries TO the Cumberland Park Derby
will close next month. This race is SO
conditioned that it will draw together the
pick Of the 2-year-olds. From this track
alone the race will draw the best that
were in the West last season, among them
Ivan the Terrible, King of Troy. Lady
Sevoy. The Clean, Braden. Lucky Charm.
Eroadcloth. Airship. John SmuIski. Gold
Enamel. Jack Logy and Rams Horn. and
possibly Mcclellan and Lawyer from the
Gerst stable.
Frank ErUhns will train a public stable
this winter. He has the horses of John
Gr-ener. Harry Franklin. Doctor Furgu-
son and several Of his own. In all he will
have twenty head. Among the hes, of the
lot is = full sister to Oiseau. the best
Western colt of the year, and full broth
er to that good race mare. Oliphant
Bruins has hsen a successful trainer He
developed Ben NcDhu!. Won Rouse ana