The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-22
PROPER, STAR HORSE
IN JENNINGS NTRY
One of the Cleverest SpeedsterS
in American Turf
Circles.
DAINTY HAS SHOWN
REJUVENATED FORM
Eastern HOrseman Does Not
Think Highly of Entries
in Coast Racing.

NEW YORK, April H.-The Jennings
candidate In the Brooklyn handicap VIII
be Proper. tho star performer of the Sec
ol.d-ratc division on Eastern tracks last
season. Proper is the cleverest Preston
pans horse that ever raced in America,
and he is in tip-top condition this year.
He did not get too much OF II in Califor-
MIA last winter, and he had no chance to
race himself stale. While Proper failed
TO win the Burns handicap Mr. jennings
was not dissatisfied with the showing he
made on tho Pacific slope
Proper a Fast Horse.
The Handicapped has high opinion of
the big bay, and in his San Francisco
races he had TO shoulder his weight In
his preparation for the Brooklyn handi-
cap Proper may get race at Belmont
Park But Mr. jennings is not sure he
Will race the Prestonpans horse before
the Brooklyn meeting. He is not absolute
ly In need OF hardening race He is not
like an Eastern horse that has been all
winter under cover.
Even II James r. Keene adheres to his
plan OF keeping Sysonby away from the
races until Suburban day, Mr. Jennings
believes that this seasons Brooklyn will
be vastly better event from the point
OF view OF sport than majority OF prede-
cessors.
DAINTY, the Golden Garter mare Mr..
Jennings sent To John Hynes Connectl-
cut nursery last summer, TO the end that
,ne vendor OF wooden nutmegs might re-
siorc her as he restored Proper the year
Leiorc last, is in splendid condition this
sTrn6.
A Dainty old-Timer.
Hynes delivered Dainty TO Jennings a
few days ago She weighs $50 pounds more
than, she did when HyncS took her. and
her legs appear to be clean as they
were the day OF her birth. When Dainty
VIII be ready to race Jennings cannot say
Just now He will not hurry her He
nj lao. ha3
Golden Garter ever sent to the American
races. and he is naturally ambitious TO
restore her to the splendid form she
showed In the autumn OF 1904. when she
WAS all but inyinci6le among Eastern
handicap runners,
Dainty is getting along In years. but
Jennings has been sIngularly successful
with old horses, and IL is not improbabIc
That he Will win many good races with
,hls Ihls igst mare. Just now he thinks it
likely Dainty Will be ready at Sheepshead
BAY for flrst-class effort But he docs
not think she Will be equal TO tho task
0i winning such races as this year Sub
urban and Brighton promise TO be
That Dainty Will try for the great
summer handicap Is therefore improbable
experience has taught that n shlfty han
cicap horse who can be saved for the
rich autumnal specials. races ike the
NoGp Twin City al Sheepshead Ray rho
Ornnium. the Oriental and the First Sne-
of money ' " O"lirh
As general proposition the greater
handlcaP horses run themselves to death
oelore the flrst of September in the Brook
gn, the Suburban. the Brighton, the
ooInInonweaIth and the Saratoga, and
the fall ''''i"ai III
Think Coast Horses Slow.
Tho Pacific slope 3-yeor-o,ds or L.,
WINTER WINTER were, In Mr.. JennIngs's opinion
very ordinary lot. Masterson and Good
6oI 5uck old not land the Derbies at Ascot
,hn, ark ana oakland. he thinks. because
'hey improved under the invieorntIng in