The Washington times., 1911-03-21
Washington Horsemen Ex-
pect to Take Strong Part
in Race Season.
TRACK is HEAVY,
BUT SHOWING GOOD
Preparations for jamestown and
Pimlico Have Been Success
full Up to Now,

Washington horsemen will hold a
strong hand in the racing game this
season, IL the trials and looks of the
two-year-olds now at Benning go for
anything. The local course has been
the scene of training operations for sew
eral weeks, in preparation for the spring
meetings at jamestown and PimIico.
Unfavorable weather has kept some
OF the trainers from going ahead with
their charges as fast as they would like,
and several Washingtonians who had in
tended to take in the Norfolk meeting
have decided to pass up that early ses-
sion and walt for Baltimore. DR.. j. s.
Tyree had planned an extensive cam
paign at the Virginia. track. but the
astute Billy" oliver. who is handling
the doctors horses. is fearful that too
hurried a preparation may cause the
youngsters in his string to go stale.
Samuel Ross. a Washington turfman.
whose white, blue and red polka dots.
have been familiar TO local race fol-
lowers for many years, Will have the
largest and strongest stable of runners
this year he has ever sent to the races,
and most of them home-bred. The
Ross horses are in charge Of Max Smart,
who developed the good colt DIR. Duen-
ner. which many persons think will cap
ture the rich Jacksonville Derby for the
Washington turfman.
Going to Baltimore.
Mr.. Ross will keep his thoroughbreds
at Benning until April l, when they will
be sent TO Baltimore. This years he
hopes TO win the C!abaugh Memorial, a
two year r-old event for racers bred In
Maryland. Virginia. and Pennsylvania,
with a son of GraziaIlo-Miss Hastings.
The youngster is called Leesburg Boy,
and is one of the first of the get Of
GraZiailo to go to the races. GraZiallo
was one of the favorites of BenninS
racegoers few years back. and his
progeny will be watched with interest.
Leesburg Boy is a stoutly made chest
nut with a fine neck and good quarters.
His trainer AYERS that the colt can run
as fast as two-year-olds are asked to go
at this sea son, and the manner In
which he has worked has given Mr..
Ross confidence that this year he Will
move up one position in the race for
the ClabauEh. Last spring the Ross
colors were borne in that event by DIR.
Duenner, which was beaten by Chiffon
Belle, one of Bob Waldens Maryland
bred youngsters, DR.. Duenner finishing
second. Mr.. Ross has another candidate
I
bourne colt that looks strikingly like
DR.. Duenner, but his dependence will be
on Leesburg Boy if everything goes
right in his training. The Ross string
sixteen. including several
weanlings, one a full sister to Leesburg
Boy. DR.. Duenner. which has been
racing at Jacksonville all winter under
the direction of the Washington vet
eran, W. P. Burch. will be shipped 70
Baltimore at the conclusion or tne
Florida meeting to join the other Ross
horses.
Course Is Heavy.
The BeuninE course has been some
what heavy since Sunday. and II was
not until this morning that trainers set
their horses down for any good work.
There were several brisk moves. High
Private. intended for jamestown. was
sent a mile in I:59 we'll in hand, and
Henry Munroe, stablemate, went the
distance in the same time. High private
never looked SO we'll as this spring, and
his legs are apparently sound. StnSCr,
the crack of the Smithson lot, is ''Haw-
kins' horse" and though this one may
not go a great distance, he Will be a
hard one to beat in sprint races. The
Voter three-year-old has grown wonder
fully over winter and has all his speed.
Mr.. Smithson has several horses racing
at Jacksonville that will be sent to
Probably the best work done at Ben
ming was by Tom Melton, trained by Ed
Hanna. This horse is about as for
ward Nas any at the track. and he will
pick up a purse or two at jamestown.
This tip may be tabled right now. Tom
best work was five furlongs in
%. but 1t was accomplished easily, and
was first class for the deep Benning
track. Hallock and Cheek, in the Tyree
ot, went a half in "a.