The Washington times., 1906-01-07
MidVinter Horse Notes
Of Track ana Stable
Young Jay Gould May Go in for Racing.
Schneider Strong in Two-Year-Olds.
Crit Davis With TrOtterS.
By MANHATTAN.

jay Gould. son Of George Gould. may
go in for racing.
Ii is known the young man is an en-
thusiastic lover Of the horse, an expert
polo player and an aII-a-ound athlete.
The present generation of Goulds has
not taken 10 the racehorse, but then. il
took a couple of generations for the
VandeFbilts TO get interested III the
sport Young Gould not only loves q
horse. but IS a fine judge OF the points
Of gOsd animal lie viii have the
money and leisure necessary 10 excel
at the game. and many stranger thir 8
have happened than the appearance of
the Gould c0I0rs" on the racetr0Ck.
The entries for the greatest stake
races to be run this year were closed
Tuesday.
The famous Suburban Handicap, o.
the guaranteed value OF 81. COO is the
most important Of al the stakes 10
close and the Brooklyn Handicap. @.
the same character and value, IS OF
scarcely less Importance. The $500
Brighton Handicap. The third OF the
great mile and "a quarter events, also
closed OF less value. but nevertheless
occupying a prominent place in the cal
endar OF race fixtures. come the Sls't7
commonwealth Handicap. at Sleeps
head Bay. ana the weightfor-age Ad-
vance Stakes, value $500 at the same
place
Entries for the Futurity of 1905 also
closed. All the fixtures flied well ana
their is 40 Indication OF a stacking IN
terest In the royal sport
II VAS In lee expected that headlines
ike those which appeared ia one OF the
metropolitan daiiies this week should
De seen;
Racing al New Orleans Mag BE stop
ped by Law"
II would have been unreasonable 10
expect that the present situation would
NOT arouse the enemies of racing 20 re-
neVed activity. and 1t Is 90 be feared
with fair prospect for "a succesSIui
crusade
Barney" schreiber. the weI-hno~n
Western turfmau. who races most OF MS
stable Of horses on the Western courses
but occasionally sends couple Easi To
race at the Saratoga track, will have
one of the largest stables Of two-yeaF-
olds for the coming season. At his
Woodlands Farm, in Missouri, he has al
the present time sixty coming t~o-year-
oIds, which viii carry his colors during
the season OF 1895 on the Western and
Eastern tracks. OF the coming tWo-yeaF-
olds in his stable he has tWenty-one
which ne viii race on the California
TRACKS during ;he winter and next spring
and then they will be shipped 70 the
other Western tracks and be raced there.
In the string are thirty-three cots
and tuenty-seven FLIES, ana the young
sters represent nine stations. Sain has
sired twenty-ona Bannockburn fifteen
BaIgowan. eight; Sir Hercules. six; Foul
Shot five. Service. two and AltamaN,
Rubicon and Picquart. one each.
Crit Davis has signed a contract to
handle the string of J. g. Cecil, the
DanvilIe breeder. during the coming
wear He will have a big stable OF young
horses. the get of Cecilian Chief princi-
narv and will make a bid for some of
Tie big trotting stakes of 1896, Davis
intends to go back again with the run
uers some time. The last good trotter
Davis took down the grand circuit was
prince Wilkes. which. when he had
made a remarkable race-winning record,
WIS sold into a foreign land for $4,000
E. Ii. Bradley now has his training
stables on Avenue l.. near the Sleeps
head Bay track. There has Just been
co1upIsted for the Western owner an
eightecn-stalI barn that is up-to-date in
every particular. Here the Bradley
horses win be housed when they come
East next spring
On January IL the annual meeting OF
the Jockey Club will be held and stew
ards elected TO iii the place OF those
retiring The same day tine annual
meeting of the stockholders of the va
rious racing associations viii be held. In
addition to all this, the forfeit list viii
be due
The racing of very youngs two-yeaI'-
old racing babies has been Of unusual
proportions this year On January no
less than dfty-seven young thorough
brees. two years old or that day. hy
virtue Of the decree of the powers thai
be in racing that the age of ali thor
oughbreds shall date from January l.
were carGed TO start at the various
tracks.
II is not TO be wondered at that tn
number Of really frst-class horses som-