The Washington herald., 1907-04-01
TRAINERS GET BUSY
Priming Thirty Horses at
BrightwoOd Track.
TWENTY-FIVE ARE TRoTTERs
string of Harness Horses consideresI
the Most Promising Lot That Has
Ever Been stabbed at the LocaI
Course-Prepnriag Programme for
Meeting to BE Held In May.

| OF more than thirty harness horses that
have already been put into training at
Brightwood. about twenty-five of them
are trotters. a fact that is particularly
gratifying to local turfmen. And a fur
theF satisfactory matter is, that Of these
| twenty-five trotters. only five or six have
ever been seen on the old track. or any
other racing course around Washington
ali of the newcomers being young and
green.
Last year an entirely different eondi-
tiOn prevailed. While there were, a little
later in the season. something like nifty
horses quartered at Bnghtwood, four in
five were PAGERS. and the tr0tters then
there were nearly all old hands at racing.
ard had frequently been seen here.
During the past week all Of the train
ers have been busy and the members of
/ this green contingent have attracted much
attention from visitors TO the traca. II is
admitted by all that they are the most
promising lot Of young horses ever seen
Ia the National Capital
/ fve-year-old bay geiding. owned by
J. +. Meenahan. and four -yesr-old. also
q bay, owned by William Morris. show
better Than any other trotters that have
been put in training here for years. with
the possible exception Of the sorrel geld
1 ing by Kelly that exhibited so much speed
/ last fail. AlOnzo C0rbin has the Meme
/ han gelding in hand, and Tom Cannon Is
/ schooling the Morris horse Both are bv
Gov Stanford. Neither never saw race
course previous 10 ten days ago. but
each can now go along at a thirty clip.
Both Of these ceilings are sound good
headed, pure-gaited and like their work.
and If they do not develop into very fast
and game race horses many old track fol-
lowers will be badly fooled.
/ The committee Of the Road Drivers and
Riders Association Of the District Of Co
/ Ilumbia who has in hand arrangements
for the first spring matinee over the Po-
tomac Speedway, which viii take place
about May ]. IS figuring out what it
/ believes viii be a very interesting pro-
gramme for that occasion The most fire.
quent criticism heard Of past matinees on
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: slded-that the horses were not classified
as they should have been The Justice of
this criticism was apparent to nearly
everybody who witnessed the brushes,
and care is being taken that there shall be
/ no cause in the future for such structures.
! There VIII probably be five races on the
card for the coming entertainment, and
i the horses taking part in them will be as
evenly matched in speed as is possible.
There is no PAGER in training here at
present that is being watched with more
interest than is Miss Clean. 215h. This
mare has a world ofspeed, and before the
/ racing season opened last year was ex-
pected 20 show all the horses Of her
class in this section OF the country the
way under the wire. but just about ;he
/ time she looked 70 be ready she trained of
aud was laid up. She wintered well and
now Is fun Of spirit and IS as rugged as an
OK. Alonzo Corbin Is handling her, and
hopes 20 have her in prime shape TO start
/ by the time the first bell rings. While
she has not. of course. been given any fast
work yet. Miss CLEAN exhibits all Of her
old gingery manner. and If she does not
take a mark of 2;l0 this year there viii be
many disappointed prophets around this
town. Miss Clean is owned by Horace
/ Schwartz. former treasurer of the Wash
/ inston, Alexandra. and Mount Vernon
/ Electric Railway Company.
The little trotting gelding Calibre, that
was raced by Leonard Acker last year
/ for J. May Morrison. has come to speed
that viii surprise everybody vino has ever
seen him. il reports are true. II is as
/ serted that he has shown halves in :0S.
and quarters as fast as 0:33. over the Po-
/ tomac Speedway lately. Calibre is by
/ Sphinx. 2:2Oii He started as a green one
/ in a number OF races last year on the
Maryland and Virginia tracks and came
/ home green. and after passing through
/ the hands of several different persons was
/ bought by W. +. Miller. who now owns
/ him. Mr. Miller did not buy Calibre with
/ the notion that he was a race horse, but
/ it is said that the recent performances of
[ the gelding have greatly euthUsed him
and he will have him trained and raced
again this year.
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