The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
Vendor Is a Stayer.

Vendor is not a big horse, but he has
the conformation OF n weight carried am
/ the action OF stayer. Locked Out won
race at Aqucduct, but he bunderec
/ In the Junior Steeplechasc, the only
three-year-old special run at Bennings
Mr.. Hitchcock does not think he could
have beaten James W. Colts Commodore
fontaine even II he had jumped perfectly
| In the Junior, but he Is confident the
gray would have given the Commodore a
tussle.
Locked Out fenced swiftly and safely
before he pecked. He was not as we'll
ridden as he might have been He did
not nave Ray in the saddle. That ac-
compiished horseman could not make the
weight. Mr.. Hitchcock had to entrust
Locked Out to Palmer, one OF his negro
exercise boys. Locked Out may not make
a nrst-class horse, but he should stick
as lar as Jumpers are asked to run. HI
Is as game as Jumpers come,
Ar Hitchcock will engage him literally
IN various specials to be decided next
summer and fall and II he does not
make good he will be sold.
The turfman of Westbury and South
carolina Is not without hope that Good
and Plenty. the winner Of one Champion
ana Two Whitney memorials, may train
again. Good and Plenty spent the srm
Hier at William Garth's farm in Albe
marie county. Va. He has in splendid con-
d!tion during the recently ended meeting
at Bennings Good and Plenty was sent
to Virginia after the last Whitney Me-
mortal. He was SO lame Mr., Hitchcock
dld not care to train him for the Cham
plon, Mr.. Hitchcock has u deep aff.c-
ton Tor Good and Plenty.
Il Good and Plenty a Winner
The bis Rossington horse has won every
time he has started since his first race.
He might have won his first race. which
fell TO Walter, Cleary, II Ray had whipped
him out. - p
II Good and Plenty stands up next
spring he will be got ready for another
Whitney Memorial, Training a horse that
has been lame for. two-mile- an -a-half
race is easier than getting him ready 70
go three miles. 7
1ylas. the winner OF two champions.
went into winter quarters sound OF wind
ana ans! limp, and Mr. Hitchcock Is sure he
Will stand up next year. But he win |
not be rushed as he was last spring. Both
Mr.. Hitchcock and his trainer attribute
the poor record IIYlas made in the spring
and summer of 1906 to the rushing prep
aration he got for the Winter Memorial. |
He was hurried for the great race Of |
the Belmont spring meeting because his J
people We're AFRAID GOOD and Plenty might /
not stand. Mr.. Hitchcock was determined
70 have q representative in the Whitney
Phantom, was a very lame horse after
MS last race at Grayesend and it looked
;ery much as though he had bowed
:endon. But he IS going soundly once
more, and Mr. Hitchcock is inclined to
link he may race again.
Phantom improved more last season
han any jumper in the country, He
'egau the season as a selling platter, but
It Saratoga he ran the lght-footed Her
' ~ 70 q: head IN the Beyerwycl Hands
ap. and a little later at Grayesend Ia
roke the track record for two miles
and q half 1t was not until he broke
his record that MI. Hitchcock conceded
hat he was Of better than ordinary class.
I Phantom trains he probably will not
lppear under colors until next fall, A
lorse with bad tendon needs time for /.
ecovery.