Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-29
TURF RIVALS TO
RACE AT P|MuC0
Trance and Statesman Ready
to Decide Question Which
Is the Better Horse.

NEW YORK, March 29.-Trance and
Statesman will meet at the Pimlico track
Those rivals of last season, who had
many race over the famous old Mary
land course, are being prepared at
Sheepshead to fight out the issue of SUI
periority.
Last fall the contests between them
were the racing tidbits of the end of
the seasons sport. Trance had beaten
Statesman frequently whenever they
met on the local tracks and frequently
conceded him many pounds in handicaps.
But at PimlIco Statesman proved that
he was the better youngster by frequent
ly defeating the FLY. So the season end
ed with honors even between the fast
illy and the colt.
This spring the rubber will be
| fought out between them. Both are in
prime fettle for the contest The for
mer no longer yields as she trots and
canters, an application of the firing irons
during the winter having removed all
sources of trouble on her left knee
which was weak and caused her great
pain.
1t was this troublesome knee that en-
abled Statesman to beat Trance. A,
least that is what George Odom, her
owner, says, and he is willing to bet that
when they meet in April Trance Will
win.
Gardner Likes Statesman.
Frank Gardner the owner of States.
man, is equally confident that Statesman
can take the measure of Trance and says
that the talk about the filly being lame
and not in perfect racing trim last fall
is all fol-de-rol.
STATESMAN showed in the fall the speed
he displayed in private during the Bel
mont Park spring meeting, said Gardner
to reporter. During the early days OF
his twO-year-old form j thought ] had
a champion But he failed to live up to
his work when racing and 1t was not un-
til the tail end of the season that he
showed in public the speed that l alone
| knew that he possessed"
So that's how the situation stands be-
meet both will be nominated for some
OF the Pimlico stakes-t will mean a
financial battle between the adherents OF
the Horses. All the racegoers of south
Brooklyn are loyal to Trance, for Odon
handed that section of Kings county sc
many good tips on her last year, and they
won so many bets on the fleet-footed
daughter of Ben Brush, that they are
willing to go broke backing her against
Statesman.
Trance Nearly Ready to Race.
Trance is within a few weeks of a race.
She showed half-mile better than "a Sec
onds at the Sheepshead Bay track Satur-
day, that made Odom fairly shake with
delight. My, but she is like the proverb-
ial bounding rubber ball as she hits the
track in spots. She is as ninble as a
panther in her actions with a stride 50
smooth and seemingly faultless that il
warns the cookies of mans heart just
to see her run.
| Statesman looks fine bodily. and is now
a fine type of thoroughbred in active
| training. He carries many more pounds
of flesh than he did last year, for he de-
veloped wonderfully during his vacation
| time during the winter months. So far
| he has not shown as much speed as
| Trance in his work. but that may be due
| to lack of desire on his owners part. In
action he has a. short, choppy way OF
running that is not impressive. He does
not stride out with the perfect freedom OF
| d horse that is eager to race. But he
can run some-and it is speed that counts
not action-why it's probable that his
daisy cutting, rollicking stride will vanish
when he lines up with Trance at Pim-
| lico to decide the mooted question which
| is the better horse