The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-28
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Norfolk. Va, March 2T.-Less than
three weeks from today the biggest
race meeting ever held south of Balti-
more will open at the jamestown
Jockey Club track, to continue nine
teen days. The meeting opens on April
5 and will continue up to and including
April 26. There will be 1e days of
racing, and the card for each day will
consist Of not less than six races. AS
many as seven and perhaps eight races
will be run on several days during the
meeting.
Manager Bob Levy is arranging
some special features for the meeting.
There will be gentleman rider races,
IN which locally owned horses will be
the entries, and they will be ridden by
their owners. These races will be over
the hurdles. and last year they were
one Of the features of the fall meeting,
from a local standpoint
Manager Levy is also arranging q
mule race. 1t is expected to have
seven or eight mules entered for one
The mules will be ridden by sailors
from the various battleships that will
be gathered in Hampton Roads dur,
AIAS Tic HCClAh6s lis lCdbuIO P1Ons-
ises to be an amusing as well as an in
teresting one.
The fastest and best-bred horses in
America, Canada and Mexico will be
entered for the local meeting. Because
Of the Importance the local track has
in the world Of sport these days, hav-
ing succeeded Benning in the racing
game, nothing but high class horses
are permitted to enter for the various
races.
The meeting will be run under the
auspices of the New York Jockey Club.
and will be under the same officials
as those that preside at Gravesend,
Belmont Park, Saratoga and other big
racing plants throughout the country.
The stables of August Belmont, R. T.
Wilson, Jr, e. ]. Nolan, Captain Cas-
satt and other millionaires win
be seen at the local meeting. Belmont
and Wilson will send their best run
ners to the local meeting and each will
have fifteen entries.
Among the Belmont horses win be
Field Mouse, Footprint and Priscilian.
Field Mouse was one Of the favorites
at the fall meeting here, and is one of
the best sprinters racing today. In the
Beverwyck stables, owned by T. J. No
Ian, the Albany ulti-millionaire, viii
be Sir John Johnson, the $4,000 horse.
This is one of the best horses in the
world and races with fast ones like
Fitz Herbert.
There will be sixteen other fast run
ners in the Beverwyck stable, and al
OF them are frst-class horses. The
Beverwyck stables is one of the best
known homes Of good horses in Amer
lea. Donald Macdonald, one of tile
best winners at the Jacksonville meet
ing will be entered for the local meet
ing. This horse has won half a dozen
first money prizes at Jacksonville ami
has copied dozens of place and show
purses. This fast horse is owned by
J. T. Powers.
Mary Davis, another fast Jackson
vile entry, viii be among the good
ones at the local track. Mary Davis
is owned by Bud May, who will have
several more at the local meeting.
Guy Fisher, another favorite nat the
fall meeting at the local track and
winner of several races in the south
during the winter, will be back again.
The horse appears to be in better form
than ever.
Chester Crum, E. ]. Moyne's fast
runner from the Pacific coast, is al
ready at the track. This horse won
the New Years stakes at Oakland, Cal, |
and captured several other races dur
ing the short winter meeting at that
place.
Superstition. owned by Maupin, one
of the favorites at at the November |
meeting and winner of several good |
races at Pimlico last spring. is already |
here. Superstition, in the morning 1rv |
outs, appears to be a much faster and |
better horse than last year.
High Private, one Of the Smitmson |
entries, and a favorite always, will be |
one of the entries at the Norfolk meet |
The Niger, the best runners at the
Jacksonville meeting and one of the |
winners at the fall meeting held here |
last November. will be here again next |
month. This horse has even surprised |
its owner, W B. Condran, by the re-
markable showing he made at Jack
sonville.