The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-08
FAVORITES IN FORM.
Large Percentage of First
Choices Win at Benning.
SURPRISES IN BABY RACES
T,yo-year-oIas. Usually the Most
Consistent, Have Furnished Great
err Number of Upsets Than older
Horses--IittIeHeId's Jubilee Prob
ably Best Youngster This season.

In one respect the Bennlng spring meet"
ing has made a record. Out Of seventy
two races run on the twelve days nearly
50 per cent have been won by favoTites.
This is a remarkable showing. and one
that seldom happens. Forty per cent OF
winning fayorites IS considered a winning
percentage for bettors. and there are few
race tracks In this country where the
number reaches so high as at the present
meeting. 1t is the more remarkable be-
cause it is "a spring meeting, when the
horses are expected to show reversals OF
form. But while so many favorites have
won, it is doubtful if the general public
has any the better of the layers, for a
majority of the winning choices have been
at short prices, eleven of them having
been at prohibitive figures
Thirteen second choices got home in
front, while twenty-four OF the winners
were long shots. AS a rule, tw0-year-old
form is the most consistent, but there
have been proportionately more surprises
among the youngsters az the Benning
track than among the Older horses, no
less than seven of the sixteen events for
the babies being won by horses at odds
OF 10 to / or better.
TwO-year-Olds Lack Class.
The two-year-olds that have shown at
Benning are, perhaps. not as good as
in former years. There has, In fact, nos
been what could be called a high-class
two-year-oid shown at the meeting, I'M
less it be Jubilee, Fred Littlefeid's Com
pute-Stefanette colt, who won both OF
/ his starts.
hat shsl-a
tare some youngsters who have finished
back in the ruck that later will turn out
To be good racers.
There are numerous prospects. August
/ Belmont has a couple of goOd-lookius
colts that are sure 20 develop into al
/ least useful performers. Both OreOdOr
and Mad Harry are horses above the
| average in looks. OreOdOn is one of thS
/ raeiest looking youngsters that has beer
/ seen out. He is a bay Of unusually large
/ frame, and really looks more like a
/ three-year-old than horse making his
i FIRST year on the turf OTeodOn is a fIl
brother % Ol1enite and Oleroso. JOIN
| Whalen. who trains for Mr.. Belmont. l.
/ reported TO have said that OTeOdOn wouit
not be as good a racer as Okenite. bu
I II looks go for anything he Will He is
much better appearing horse than Oke
mite was at two years. and it is hard Il
believe that he viii not make a goo'
horse
Mad Harry Is Promising.
Mad Harry is another Hastings col
that ought 10 turn out well He is
trim looking bay that has a lot Of qualit.
about him. II looks the racer all over
and as he is Qua of Lady Madge lie ough
TO make good before long. for his breed
ing IS frs class In his only start Ma
Harry showed speed. but he ran green
and apparently did not know what wa
wanted Of him.
Lady Isabel, Billie IIibbs. Ben Cole, am
Jubilee are looked upon as the hest tina
have appeared, but, with the possibl
deception OF Jubilee, il is doubtful If an
of them will cut much figure when the
strike the cracks around New York. Ere
Idttlefeld says jubilee is a better col
than C0mputer was. and the latter wa
sold last spring 10 the Raineys for s.. 90
He did not win a race, however, IN thei
colors, and II is doubtful Il lac ever vii
for he has a bad leg that may keep hiT
| from training. Jubilee looks TO be of tn
wear and tear sort. He has plenty q
foot, and undoubted courage. the quail
ties that make up a racer OF class. y
horse with small heart could have beate
Ben Cole rs Jubilee did last week whe
Jubiiees rider, Radtke. was so sick tina
/ ne could hardly sit in the saddle. Radtk
said afterward that Jubilee won on hi
. Own courage. He certainly showed hi
gameness by fighting it out with Re
Cole.
Eohuaor, Vlas Miller