The Washington times., 1912-04-07

NORFOLK, Va. April 7.-Twenty-one
carloads of horses that raced at Charles
ton all winter arrived in Norfolk today
in special train made up of two sec
tions of express coaches, eleven to the
one. and ten to the other, to take part
in the jamestown Jockey Clubs spring
race meeting, which begins tomorrow.
The runners that filled these coaches aC-
compllshed the trip from South Caro-
lima without incident and all are safely
installed at the race track this evening.
Tonight another special of twenty-odd
cars will leave Palmetto Park and will
be here some time tomorrow.
The arrivals from Washington includ-
ed James Fitzsimmons, w. S. Diffen-
derfer, and Thomas Rodrock, Theodore
Coles having missed the Benning boat.
Two or three of Fitzsmmons' horses
and two-score of the runners from
Charleston will race tomorrow for the
ladies Of Norfolk, who will attend the
opening of the track for the new season
ds guests of the jamestown Jockey
Club.
Some OF the horsemen who came on
the special from Charleston were
Charles T. Patterson, with the BILE
of Robert Davies. of Toronto. which
includes the clever two-year-olds. Lib
erty Hall and Calgary; Jack McCauleT,
whose breadwinner Is the veteran Elec-
tioneer, winner of the Futurity stakes
of 1906; Frank Nolan, of Albany, n. Y,
owner of Bob r.. Adrian, and the ciev er
three-year-old, Colonel Holloway; VII
lie Martin, who brought back Agnar and
Rye Straw with a couple of useful
platers he took after selling races at
Palmetto Park: Andrew Godfrey Blake
ley, of New York, who lost his prom
Using three-year-old Rey, but claimed
from Francis Pons a better horse in
Brosseau: Walter Congdon. with Ell
Bart, u fleet son of Fatherless; William
Guy Bedwell, Rose Queen. Berkeley,
and Montgomery among them; J. W.
Pangle, whose saGacious beast, Guilty
hunk has a fascinating and profitable
way Of winning when the odds are big
without reference to previous perform
ances, and Al G. Weston. who trained
through the winter the Southern di-
vision of the string of Richard T. vii.
son, president of the Saratoga Associa-
ton of New York.
Veteran Morris There.
Also came Green B. Morris, a veteran
owner and trainer of ninety years, who
has been on the turf seventy summers
and winters, and who twenty years age
won an American Derby with Strath.
meath. 1t has been many seasons since
"Old Man Green" as they call him at
the track, had firsr-class racer. His
stable for the Norfolk meeting consists
of but one serviceable horse. But he j
still Cheery end optimistic. He played
pinochle all the way up with trainers
young enough to be his great-grand-
children, yet he was bustling about
yesterday as spry as the Lest of them.
Morris and his fellow-voyagers de-
clare that they never had a more COM
Portable journey. The horse special
made excellent time and not one of
their charges so much as sneezed en-
route. While some of the Charleston in
vaders looked bit jaded after their
long winter campaign, taken as whole
they were prepossessing lot.
ElectiOneer was as lively and chippsr
as a two-year-old; Spellbound, of the
Burtschell string, bore a coat that shone
bright and sappy like satin, and Hoff-
man seemed ready to get right out and
hustle for a purse.
That Hoffman was first OF the
Charleston horses to be led through the
track gates may have future Sig
rificance. The son of IsidOr and Arrow
grass, whose full brothers, Irish Lad.
Zanone, and Vulcain, were famous run
ners In their day, is very, very good
when right. Two seasons back, 1t will
be recalled, there was not at Norfolk
horse that could take up scale weight
eighths, one mile or one mile and a
furlong.
Ashe Comes Tomorrow.
DR.. F. w. Ashe. of Sheepshead Bay,
did not come with Hoffman. He will be
here tomorrow on the second special
from Charleston. So will John Burt
Schell, the owner and trainer of Spell
bound. Charleston folk say Spellbound
is as good as he was at Montreal in
September. 1910, when he defeated the
redoubtable Olambala in the Earl Grey
Cup, race Of one mile and a quarter
for a purse of 5000.
My Gal, of affeCtionate memory. came
with Spellbound. j. w. Hedrick TOOK
! My Gal from Burtschell here last fall
but the Texan got her back at Palmetto
Park. My Gal does not look much right
row, but that does not mean anything
She was ever a ragged old mare.
Walter Congdon, the young Baltimore
| trainer, who is handling FL Bart
| brought Jockey Fairbrother, a youth
| who rode in Canada last season fol
| Joseph f. SeagTam, of Toronto. Fair,
brother got a deal of useful practice
at Charleston, and Congdon predicts
| that he will make one of the most serv'
| iceable jockeys of the early spring meet
! ings in the East. He had a fall II
| January and suffered a broken Collal
| bone, but a little thing like that nevel
| bothers a good jockey.
COngdons breadwinner u tul