The Washington times., 1906-12-30
Holiday Race at New Orleans
Will Give Little Line
On Derby.
By WILLIAM MOFFAT.

By WILLIAM MOFFAT.
NEW ORR EANS. Dec. 29-The New
Year Handicap. a race for young
horses. which by turf reckoning become
three-year-olds on the first day of the
year. will be the principal stake to be
offered by the Crescent City Jockey
Club next week.
This race may Ice regarded as some
thing of a Derby trial, though the date
OF running the star event OF the New
Orleans racing season. March 23, is too
far removed for next Tuesdays race
10 be regarded as anoTding anything
more than just an Indication OF the win
ner of the Derby.
Glamor Looks Best.
Many things may happen between
Tuesday and March next which will put
an entirely different complexion on the
prospects of the Derby candidates. So
far no particular two-yeaT-old, soon To
be three. seems 10 stand out With d
new light weight. over sprinting dis
tances, and with going To her liking, the
softer the better, A. =. McCafferty's
Hastings hlly, Glamor, has shown the
best form In the sO-termcd Preliminary
Derby, when asked TO carry 1l5 pounds,
Glamor failed, running third 20 Fan
tastiC ana De Oro. though she was
beaten by such a narrow margin that
the least difference in luck might have
altered the result of the race, Glamor
on that occasion had somewhat the
worst of it. as she was on the outside
of the pair which ran In front OF her
all the way from start 10 finish.
Rely on Gid.
The reliance Of the powerful Burlew-
O NeiH stable ia races over distance
of ground win probably be Gid. very
much improved colt. and one which
showed sterling merit in winning the
Initial Handicap. run on the opening day
Of tie late City Park meeting. when he
beat older horses than himself such as
James Reddick and Envoy
Fantastic, in the same stable, is very
fast. but not partial to weight. she
was stopping fast at the finish Of the
Preliminary Derby, six furlongs, but
her race in the Test Stakes waz some
thing of an Improvement. though she
finished only a length in front OF her
stablemate. Royal Breeze. The latter
last Saturday by Ed Trotter's Jacomo
over mile course.
JacomO Likes Route.
Jacomo in all Of his races up 10 last
Saturday had been a singularly unlucky
colt and has or more than one &C
casion lost races which he should have
won. through incompetent handling. He
is certain 10 be suited by d route. and
handles weight well.
Royal Breeze was well supported by
his stable last Saturday to the surprise
Of several who thought the colt would
not like the sticky going. His sire,
Royal Flush, when raced by Green b
Morris in California. after his arrival
from England, never exhibited any
partiality for mud. and Royal Breeze
has the style Of going of horse which
would be suited best by what is termed
a pasteboard track
Sir ToddingtOn No Gutter.
Sir Toddington and Judge Post are the
other two OF the RuTlew-O NelH Caqdi-
dates for Derby honors. Sir ToddIng-
ton far outlooks IN size, quality and
finish. any two-year-old. OF, for that
matter, any horse Of any age now rae
big fellow when a yearling. the chest
nut son Of TOddington and Oscillation
has naturally taken time TO develop,
and perhaps too much stress is laid on
the fact that he raced on the Eastern
tracks and could only win one race. 4
big, heavy colt, inclined 10 gTossness.
whit not the best of feet and legs, Sir
Toddington is probably a source Of anx-
iety 10 his trainer. but 10 set him down
as a quitte., as many superficial judges
have done, merely because the colt
failed from want of condition. is de-
cidedly a mistake. In his last race, the
Planters Stakes. 70 which he was ad-
ded in place Of his stablemate. Judge
Post. Sir Toddington went seven-eighths
leading all the way and winning, per
haps a tTife luckily. from Allowmaise,
a colt whose stable connections fancied
hin very strongly for the race.
Tudor Has Quality.
The Clyde Stable representative. Tu-
dor, trained by Al Weston, which won
race very easily on Saturday last.
viii play an important part in any
races with horses of his own age from
now on. Although by AtheIing. Tudor
does not Showsmany Of the character
istics of that horses get Many of the
.Athelings are rugged of frame and in
cnned to be 'leggy," Tudor is a par
ticularIy we'll made. we'll finished colt.
showing a lot OF quality He has
plenty of speed and ought TO go a
route.
Beau BrummeI is the only one Of the
western colts. with the exception Of
Jacomo already referred to, which ap-
pears 10 have any chance of holding
his own with the Eastern division
Beau BrummeI appears at present rs
though he had had enough Of racing
for the time being Tom Kiley has a
useful colt in Chase, and W. II. Fizer
two, in Billy Vertress and Morales
Chase was fourth, only q neck away
from GlamOr. in the Preliminary Der
by. and was afterward beaten a neck
| by Morales. Kiley is a well-kaoWp
| Western trainer who has the de-
| served reputation of knowing his busi-
ness thoroughly, and he thinks pretty
well of Chase.
Knight of Ivanhoe Uncertain.
c, r. Ellison can hardly be termed
! a Western owner nowadays, as MIS-
| horses were campaigned in the East
1us- IN,