Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-29
STRENUOUS DAYS
WITH TRAINERS
Trying to Get Harness Horses
Ready for the May and
June Meetings.
By L. D. Sale.

These are strenuous days with trainers
who are trying to get their horses ready
for the May and June meets, especially
in northern ATTITUDES on account of unset
! tied weather. With the initial meet at
Brightwood only a trifie over four weeks
or, Washington trainers whose horses are
| intended to take part in the events will
| from now on, be compelled to step at a
livelier gant than they have been doing
| if they expect to compete successfully with
| the horses that are coming from parts
| farther south The most forward horse in
! training at this point is The Brewer, which
that master conditioner, James Morrow has
been quietly honing for some time and
taking but little consequence of weather
or other conditions The Brewer will be
ready for the word within the next three
weeks. and if he keeps his present form
is liable to step in his race better than
10 if there should be anything in his
field to drive him out.
In point of condition for fast miles the
only other locally owned horse is Henry
Copperthite's Ada D., 215A which John
Seely has In hand. She has been almost
daily logged for some weeks past, and is
fairly well hardened. Seely expects to be-
gin to step her along a little faster this
week. and her work will be weekly in
creased up to the day of the meeting,
which begins May Is. Others of the Cop
perthite-Seely string also well along
in hardening lines. Corbin may not start
any of his toU-notrhers at the Brghtwood
meet. rather preferring to hold off until
the June meetings open in the Baltimore
circuit. He has In hand four or five horses
OF class and low records or capa BILE of
taking low records. and it naturally takes
longer to key such horses up to the proper
pitch
Secretary Shuclters announces that re-
turns are coming in from nearly all points
of the compass relative to the MAY meet
and that lie has every encouragement that
the entry lists Will be all that could be de-
sired. taking in consideration the season
of the year and the condition of horses.
Between fifty and sixty horses are being
worked over Bright wood every day that
the track is good. and the old course is
about the busiest place these days IN the
District. Owing to this fact the speedway
Is suffering some neglect on the part Of
horsemen. Government work is still going
on in the newly proposed extension and
the straghtaway when completed will be a
fast one and elastic enough to please the
sorest tOed trotter in the world There
have been a few changes in horse owner
ship during the week. the most important
being the sale of the fast geldine Tosco
22I by William Riley to Frank Thomas
The last named has sold Sir Electrod
2.2lA. to Charles G. Early of Brandywlne
Prince George county. Thomas drove
Tosco two separate halfs over Brightwoo cd !
Thursday last in | 10 to a heavy high
wheel cart.
The elimination of the four-year- Old
event from the May meet has caused quite
a good deal of disappointment among own
ers of promising highly bred young trot-
tiers. 1t could hardly be helped under the |
circumstances. but Mr.. Copperthite has |
promised to give the use OF the track to |
horse owners on any day during the three |
days meet. 1t has been suggested to the |
owners of such four-year-olds as wish to |
compete and see their youngsters go that |
they may make up a purse among them |
selves and fight for i, the winner take |
ALL or divide the stakes into four moneys, |
which. perhaps. would create greater salts !
faction. In such cases 1t is not the size
of the purse that should influence horse |
owners, but the honor Of winning or being |
in the money. There many good |
four-year-olds owned in the District that |
a race of the kind proposed ought to bring J
out good field and make an afternoon Of |
interesting sport.
BY the same token. the owners of five
year-olds might also wish to try out their |
youngsters 5ust for the sake of seeing |
them go. and as there are already num-
Der Of promising and well-bred horses
owned in the District of the age named.
there ought to be no difficulty in getting
up the event on the same terms as above.
Local horsemen will be interested to
know that there is sport galore In store for
them near home the coming season if they
choose to indulge in it. In addition to the
Baltimore circuit, which opens soon. and
the Maryland circuit later on, the prom
ised three months meet at Norfolk cannot
fail to appeal to horse owners in the Dis
trict The Virginia state fair will open |
October and run three days, the events
being 2.23 trot, a 2.16 trot 2.f7 pace
and a 21O pace. The purse in each event |
will be $2.000-something worth taking
note Of Wilkesbarre and Scranton are /