The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-15
FOR DERBY DAY.
The Two Big New Orleans Events
This Week.
DisObedient Is the FaYorite for
the $4,000 Purse.
JACK DOLAN is LIKED.
Has Largest Number Of Admirers
for City Park Derby.
If Going Is Heavy Nonterey's
Chances VIII Be Increased.

New Orleans, March 15.-This week
VIII END the race meeting of the
Crescent city Jockey club. on satur-
day the $4,000 Derby viii be run. It
is the final stake of the winter given by
this club. Two DAYS later the New
Louisiana Jockey club VIII begin six
days sport, which viii mark the close
Of the seasons racing. at the fair
grounds track.
Saturday viii be the three-year-oid
colts and FLIES day. Not only VIII
the Crescent City Derby be run. but
there will be a counter attraction at
the city Park track. Racegoers here
are hoping that the winners Of the two
decide which is the southern cham
pfon.
The best class OF youngsters are en-
gagged in the Derby at the fair grounds
track. The starters Will be Disobedient.
Lotus Lady Navarro Ben Holder and
Guiding Star.
Tom Mannix. owner Of the favorite.
Disobedtent, has engaged ". Robbins
to ride his horse. It was supposed that
Martin would have the leg up, but he
is under contract to ride Guiding Star.
Manndx is very well satisfied with Rob
bins, as he should well be, for that boy
Of late has shown great ability in the
saddle and much Of the cleverness that
made him the popular jockey here two
seasons ago. Robbins is a good judge
OF pace, has nice hands and is a resO-
lutte dnisher.
Disobedient will face the starter
twice before Saturday to perfect the
favorite's physical condition. He has
had only one race during the winter,
and that was last week, when he was
beaten out by Guiding Star. The colt
was evidently short Of work. for he
Quit badly in the stretch, something he
never did before He displayed all his
old time speed, and It was only at the
end that Guiding Star, that was as
hard as nails. beat him out.
The favorites in the City Park Derby
are Jack Dolan, Monterey and Debar,
but Jack Dolan has the largest number
Of admirers He has easily defeated his
opponents with stake weights up over
the seven furlonS route. This short
distance is not as much to Jack Do
lan's fancy as mile and a quarter.
On the form he showed when he beat
them it seems that Jack Dolan viii
not be defeated by either Debar or
Monterey, provided the track is fast.
If the going is heavy it Will increase
Monterey's chance.
There is another colt that will carry
q lot Of the fasteners money. This is
Vic Hollar's Tambeau that near the
close Of racing round New York last
fall displayed good form. He was even
better than he showed for he lost one
or two races through accidents and
poor riding. He has worked vel here
of late, and Vic Hollar declares that
Tambeau can beat Jack DoIan over
any distance, from a sprint OF a half
mile to a steady plod Of two miles and
a quarter.
AS the Crescent city Derby has a
prominent ally candidate in Lady
Navarro, so the City Park event has
one in Minnie Adams. Cooks nlly has
the horsemen guessing. She has run
a couple Of very good races and a
couple Of very bad ones. One good OBJ
server has gained the impression that
If Minnie Adams is lucky enough to
get off in front and get a couple of
lengths in advance Of her field they are
going to have a hard time catching
her but that If anything carries her
along she is apt to quit. In other
words he thinks the mare lacks .cour-
age, and, II he is right, she is going to
md a mile and a quarter in her COM
pany OF next Saturday too hard a
strain.
Rams Horn continues to show that
he IS pretty much the sort of a horse
Captain Jim Williams had always
claimed. and when he goes east this
spring he viii carry more western
money than has ever been sent east to
back a western horse IN the big events
there. And he really gives moro
promise of bringing returns than anv
Of the westerners who have taken a
crack at the stars. A lot of western
horses have gone east in recent. years
and made good like The Picket. Nc
Chesney. Yankee Consul and First Ma
son, but there are many who contend
that RAMS Horn viii prove the great
est horse that has ever invaded the do
mains Of the high and mighty in
American turfdom. He is now spoken
Of as a better horse than OIseau. who
was perhaps. after Svsonbv. the best
handicap horse out in the latter part
Of last year, and there will be quite A
few willing to bet that he viii beat
Diamond Jim Bradv's crack when
thew come together