Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-22

Likely to Be a Much Better
Race Than a Majority of
Its Predecessors.
special plspa.ea to The star.

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NEW YORK. April 21.-The Jennings can
didate In the Brooklyn handicap will be
Proper. the star performer of the second
rate division On eastern tracks last season.
Proper is the cleverest Prestonpans horse
that ever raced In America, and he Is In tip
top condition this year. He did not get
too much Of it in California last winter.
and he had no chance to race himself stale.
While Proper failed to win the Burns ham
dicap, Mr.. Jennings was not dissatisfied
with the showing he made on the Pacific
slope.
Tho Handicapped has a high opinion of the
big bay. and In his San Francisco races he
had to shoulder his weight In his prepara-
ton for the Brooklyn handicap Proper may
get race at Belmont Park. But Mr..
Jennings is not sure he will race the Pres
tonpans horse before the Brooklyn meeting
He is not absolutely in need of a hardening
race. He Is not like an eastern horse that
has been all winter under cover.
Even IL James r. Keene adheres to his
plan OF keeping Sysonby away from the
races until Suburban day, Mr.. Jennings be-
Heves that this seasons Brooklyn will be
| vastly better event from the point of
view Of sport than a majority Of its pre-
Dainty in Fine Condition.
Dainty. the Golden Garter mare Mr.. Jen-
nings sent~to John Hynes' Connecticut
nursery last summer, to the end that he
hight restore her as he restored Proper the
year before last. Is in splendid condition
this spring.
Hynes delivered Dainty to Jennings a few
days ago. She weighs 100 pounds more than
she did when Hynes took her, and her
legs appear to be as clean as they We're
the day of her birth. When Dainty will
ba ready Jennings itfRf
now. He will not hurry her He considers
Dainty about the best horse Golden Garter
ever sent to the American races, and he is
naturally ambitious to restore her to the
OF 1904, when she was all but inyincible
among eastern handicap runners.
Dainty is getting along in years. but
Jennings has been singularly successful
with old horses. and it is not improbable
that he will win many good races with this
fast mare. just now he thinks 1t likely
Dainty will be ready at Sheepshead Bay
for q frst-class effort. But he does not
think she Will be equal to the task of win
ming such races this years Suburban
and Brighton promise to be.
That Dainty will try for any of the great
summer handicapS is therefore improba BILE
Experience has taught that shifty handi-
cap horse who can be saved for the rich
autumnal specials. races like the $4,000
Twin City at Sheepshead Bay. the Omnium,
the Oriental and the First Special. stands
a big chance to win bunch of money.
AS a general proposition the greater ham
dfcap horses run themselves to death before
LIST Of September in the Brooklyn, the Sub
urban, the Brighton, the Commonwealth
and the Saratoga, and cannot beat a good
handicap animal in the fall.
The Western Three Year Olds.
The Pacific slope three-year- Odds of last
winter were, IN Mr.. Jennings opinion, a
very ordinary lot. Masterson and Good
oly 4
and Oakland. he thinks because they ip-
proved under the invigorating influence OF
the trans Sierra climate. They simply did
not meet opposition of the first-class
He has not the least fear that either
OF them will come back next winter and
make him retract, as DR.. Lego did last
winter. They are not Crescendos and Ar
ticulates and Advance Guards and Oxfords
and Dr. Leggos. They Will have their work
cut out to hold their own with ordinary
eastern selling platers this season.
Mr.. Jennings is OF the opinion that his
little three-year-oid, Confederate could
concede weight to both Masterson and
Good Luck and beat them from one jump
to the Rocky mountains Confederate did
not tackle them in the derbies because he
burst foot early in the winter campaign
and had to be put by.
Mr.. Jennings does not think any too
highly of Confederate either. The Bridge
water horse appears to be all right now
however, and his owner predicts that he
will win race or two before the middle
Of May. Confederate develops high speed
in a race of seven-eights or one mile but
Mr.. Jennings is of the opinion that he was
cut out for distance running.
OF the speed of the Ossary colt, Sir Will
fred, with which Boots DurnelI predicted
early last winter he would win both the
Ascot and the California derbies, Mr. Jen-
nings has high regard. But neither he nor
any other Pacific coast horseman knows
how far Sir Wilfred will go
Why Durnell did not start the Ossary
colt in one or both of the derbies is a nlys-
terry to the Californians. And the failure
of Sir Wilfred to start against Masterson
at Los Angeles and against Good Luck
at Oakland caused general disappointment
In holding lightly the winners of the
Ascot Park and California derbies Mr. Jen-
nings is In agreement with dscrimina ting
eastern horsemen. The Melton and Sand
bingham horses We're never better than
selling platers when they raced hereabouts
and it is the consensus OF expert opinion
that they will race this year ia about the
notch that kehaflan raced last summer
Kehailan who like Masterson, is an i'm
ported horse was merely a useful platter
on eastern tracks.