The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-22
PROPER WILL TRY
FOR B|G. BROOK YN.
Jennings Candidate for Handicap
in Great Form Some
!. IKE Horse Talk.

NEW Y DIRK. -April ol.-The Jennings
iibe Proper, the star performer OF the
5sccond-division on Eastern ira cks last
season. Proper is the cleverest Preston
pans horse thut$ev raced IN America.
and he IS in tiptop condition this year.
{, He did not get too much Of TIT in Calf
fornias last winter, and The had no chan:e
TO race himself stale. While Proper fall
ed to win the Burns Handicap, Mr.. Jen-
nings was not dissatisfied with the show
Ing he made 8on the Pacific slope.
* The Handicapped has a high opinion
OF the big bay and In his San Fran.
cisco races he HAD to shoulder his
weight. In his preparation for the
Z Brooklyn handicap. Proper may yget
race q Belmont Park. But Mr.. Jennings
is not sure he will race the, Prestonpans
horse before the Brooklyn meeting. He
Is not absolutely In need OF Il harden
Ing race. He.ais 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
Nhe races until Suburban day. Mr.. Jen-
nings believed that this seasons Brook
0lvn will be vastly better event from
the point of view Of sport than ma
jority Of predecessors.
Dainty i'll Good Form.
Dainty, the Golden Garter mare, Mr.
Jennings sent to Jno Hyncs' Connecticut
nursery last summer. to the end that the
vendor OF wooden nutmegs might re-
store her MS he restored Proper the
year before last, Is In splendid condi-
ton this spring.
IIynes delivered Dainty to Jennings
&afewi days ago, She weighs 100 pounds
more than shn did when Hynes took her.
and her legs appear to be as clean rs
they were the day OF her birth. When
Dainty will BIO ready 10 race Jennings
i cannot say just now. He will not
/ the best horse Golden Carter ever sent
to tho American races, and he is nat
surally ambitious to restore her to the
splendid form she showed IN the au-
Stumn Of 1904. when she was all but
Einvncible among Eastern handicap run
Rncrs.
e Dainty is getting along In years, but
Jennings has been, sngrlarly successful
! with old horses. and It Is not lmpro-
bahle that Tie Will win many good races
with this fast mare. Just now he
thinks II likely Dainty will be ready ut
sheepshead Bay for nrst-cnss effort,
But he does not think she will be equal
to tho task of winning such races ms
this years Suburban and BRIGHTON prom
Use to he
That Dainty win try FOR anv ~ the
great summer hnndIcnps Is therefore I'm
probable, Experience has taught that
4 shifty handicap horse who can be saw
cd for tho rich autumnal specials, races
like the $4,000 Twin Cltytat sheepshead
Raw the OnnIum. tho Oriental and the
First Special. stands big chance to win
Il bunch OF money,
Chances Good,
AS n general proposition. the greater
handicap horses run themselves to death
before tho first OF September In tho
brooklyn. the Suburban. the Brighton,
the Commonwealth and the Saratoga,
and cannot heat n good handicap anil
mai In tho fall.
Tho Pacific slope s-year-olds OF last
winter were In Mr., Jennings opinion a
very ordinary lot, Masterson and Good
Luck did land the Derbies at Ascot
Park and Oakland, he thinks, because