Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-11
HORSES FROM
ALL SECTIONS
Work at the Track Shows
Racers in Forward Condition.

| The last few days have Witnessed busy
| scenes at Benning. trainers realizing that
| with the spring meeting only two weeks
/ away 1t behooves all hands to be up ana
doing. Nearly one hundred horses were
on the track at one time yesterday morn
ing. and 1t looked as II real racing was on.
But then the winter soistfce has made 1T
tie difference to the horses at Benning, VINO
have been In light work most all the time.
Indeed. the present mild winter will great
ly enhance the reputation OF Benning as
a wintering point for race horses. and 1t Is
dollars to little apples that more horses
will be wintered here In the future than
ever before Every trainer that reaches
here from the north Is a barometer OF TINS
sentiment for their first expression Is,
How forward your horses are here.
New arrivals during the week have SWELL
ed the total at the track to the 800 marx
Charles Reynolds and James Sinnott from
Gravesend got in yesterday, and G. H.
Tompkins from Warrenton. Va. the day
before. The stables of ]. Carson from Hot
Springs Ark. w. F. Schultz, from Louis
vile, and the Doeppler-Daly stables from
Orleans are expected to arrive today or
tomorrow.
In the Reynolds lot are the two four
year olds. The Britisher and Mettle and
the three-year-old FLY Lady Georgia. She
is by the Jersey sire Madison out of Fiexi-
BILE All three are well advanced and al
most ready to race right away.
Jumpers From Virginia
The Tompkins string. comprising fifteen
horses. that will sport the colors of ]. T.
Gwathmey, who races under the name OF
Mr.. Cotton" comes from Warrenton. Va.
1t includes Game Cock, Jimmie Lane, Del
canta, Knight of Elway. Monastic. Sinister.
Flying Virginia, Lexiy, lockwood Demi-
john Life Buoy, Lording, Arly Van. sweet
Pepper and George Le.per.
The last-named three-year-old was one OF
the crack two-year-olds of last spring, his
form at Memphis with Yankee Consul and
others being nothing short of first class.
All of these horses look In advanced con-
diton and will be heard from when they go
to the post.
James Sinnott has the four-year- old Bzzy
Izzy and the three-year-old Suntire. The
latter colt won good race for O. L. Rich
ards on the closing day at Benn!ng last
December. and was purchased by his pres
ent owner shortly afterward.
II Bzzy Ivy runs up to what he can do
he will win some races. But he is an I'M
certain proposition. as many local race
goers remember to their sorrow. His own
err however still has faith in the little fell
low, who is not much bigger than he was
last fall. AS a trainer of bad-legged horses
Sinnott has few SuperiorS, If any. He took
old Brisk when he was so lame that he had
to be fed lying down. and won over twenty
races with him. With Eclipse. Lucent and
Trouble he also worked wonders, consider
ing what sort of legs they had to do bust
ness on.
Kentuckians Coming.
". f Schultz, ex-presdent Of the Louis
vile Jockey Club, will have twelve horses
here in charge of Trainer F., Brooks They
were shipped east on Friday and are
promising lot The Schultz colors have
never been seen east this early, and never
have been sported at a Washington race
track. The new departure of this promi
nent Kentuckian Will be of interest to the
turf world in general.
In the New Orleans shipment that left
the Crescent City for Washington on Fri
day are ten horses of the Asbury-Doeppler
stable in charge of Trainer w. A. Me-
Nulty The stable of w. c. Daily, includ-
ing eight horses, comes on the same train.
Jules Carson also shipped twelve horses
of his own from Hot Springs on Saturday.
and with them comes four belonging to the
Hayman Brothers. They will be turned over
to Roger Minton when they reach Ben
ming.
James Mclaughlin. w. o. Sculy and G..
Odom are expected at the track tomorrow
with twenty-five horses between them In
McLaughlins lot are many well-known to
District racegoers. Race King and Oxford
ueIng the most prominent
l.
lany were out at the track yesterday wit
Messing the routine work of the Oxnard
horses Racegoers will be glad to learn
that Infiexible is gallopirg again. his re-
cent lameness that looked like a break
down having disappeared. The entire turf
world will be glad TO see this fast horse
stand his preparation and justify the hopes
of his popular owner
Some High-Bred Youngsters.
Among the Oxnard two-year-olds at the
track the fillies by Himyar Ridicule, Velas-
auez Tabitha, Gerolsteln Chimera and
Knight of the Thistle Reginella look espe
cially promising. All are fine individuals
and very racy looking.
The Belmont two-yearolds Okenite, Fon-
du-Iac and Curriculum are also good look
ers. as are the Chelsea stables Sprigtail,
by Glenheim- Babcora, and L'Orpheline, by
Fatherless- Helmwind. Col Robert Neville'S
two Contract youngsters, Pompous and
Hanihara, are also promising. w. c. Eus-
It's London Light, by Lighterman, Is an
other two year-old that looks like a useful
performer.
The infield yesterday was, as usual, the
arena for scores OF jumpers Among them
was the black horse Duoro. first-class
performer for the Sanfords OF Amsterdam
two years ago. In races on the fiat in 1903
and 1904 Duoro defeated some OF the best
horses In training.
Trainer James Mara, who now weighs