Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
NOTED RACERS NOT
t.sly.
READY FOR BENNING

NEW YORK, March lin about three
weeks more the eastern racing season will
have begun at Benning with a fine prospect
of the California and New Orleans horses
getting all the money. Not a trainer at
Sheepshead, Gravesend or the Beach will
have anything ready for Washington.
Maurice Hayman the well-known owner of
Leonard, Joe Hayman, Right Royal and
other useful winners, declares that all the
aforementioned courses are coated inches
thick with ice and frozen snow, so that it is
worth ones life almost to attempt to cross
the track. Only in fresh snow can horses be
galloped on the Coney Island boulevard, and
very few trainers care to take chances with
their valuable charges on the open road
way.
All the training that is being done for
Benning and the early spring stakes, like
the Carter, is being done by the trainers
who are fortunate enough to have big
exercising shed around their stables" said
Hayman. We have one, but only three
or four horses can be galloped at time 1t
takes Trainer Roger Minton all day to exer
else his string. Then this shed exercise is
dangerous, for the horses heat up very
quickly and must be thoroughly cooled out
and Kept from draughts the moment they
are stopped working
Our shed is seven laps to the mile but
the open air is the only sort Of work for
thoroughbred Shed exercise hardens the
muscles, but of course there is chance
10 put an edge on a horses speed under
such conditions, and the galloping around
and around a monotonous shed will make
horses stale quicker than anything 1 know
thoroughbred.
The horses at New Orleans and the rae
Ing. too, impressed me about the worst 1
had ever seen Form players scarcely ever
win bet there now. l saw very few horses
there capable of holding their own in the
east. IL the California horses are any good
whatever they should reap rich harvest
during the first month or so of metropolitan
racing"
In reply to question about the. much
talked of two-year-olds of James r. Keene
the vice chairman of the Jockey Club Hay
man said: Mr. keene not only has the best
looking youngsters l have seen, but the
only good looking ones. 1t may be that the
Castleton bred two-year- odds are so perfect
that the others appear cheap in comparison.
but am inclined to believe that. this will be
a season of very few distinguished two
year-olds.'' -.yre $500.
That the Keene two-year- should be so
outstand.ngly best is not remarkable. Mr..
keene Is the pattern of a sportsman cheer
ful In defeat and calm in success. He has
been liberal and literal pillar of the turf,
but the great success of his stable has been
in a great measure due to the cleverness of
Maj. Daingerfield, who manages his famous
Castleton farm near Lexington, KY, and
whose genius and years of study of the sci
ence OF breeding have made the courtly,
genial major a worldwide authority on
his hobby, and have enabled him to send to
the races horses whose brilliant achieve
ments will illumine the pages of turf history
as long as racing Is remembered.
Foreseeing the frozen condition of the
local tracks and the hard winter. John E.
Madden was wise enough to ship his horses
south to Little Rock after the season here
last fall, and now has the entire string at
Benning, where the deep, sandy going never
freezes and horses can always be- worked
over the track without danger of breaking a
leg. Madden will not do much racing at
Benning. All Of his energies are bent upon