The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

ONpON, England, March 1.-TWO
weeks from Monday another sea-
son OF English Hat racing opens
IL with the customary Lincoln meet
ing. and upon the day following
will Ire decided the Lincolnshire. the
first OF the more important spring hsndi-
caps.
II WAS a fortnight ago that the nrst
quota tjons appeared IN the carly books
and, at first, business WAS none too brisk.
As the day for the race approaches. how
ever more wagers are being made. and
with the open race and attractive odds
il Is certain that rushing business w1ll
continue.
At this writing Long Set, al 10 !, Is
the Lincolnshire favorite, having stiff
ened considerably in price over The 100
To that WIS available upon the earlier
days OF the wagering. Long Set, IT VIII
shire winner but Notwithstanding that
fact, 1t is difficult to sec why so many
are flockinE to his standard for thc LIN
colnshlre. Long Sets a6 pounds In the
the Lincolnshire weight or Ia pounds.
Nor should Long Sets friends. enthusl-
astic as they may bo. entirely overlook
the fact that Mereutio, which conceded
et pounds 10 Long Set in the Cambridge
soInshire. s re" Taking into cbnsideration the
difference in .he weights, Mercutio ought
10 beat Long Set at Lincoln. even though
the former found a 2l-pound handicap
TOO much !n the Cambriogeshire
1t is. in truth. surprising that Morcutio.
winner of last years Lincolnshire, has
not been more in demand. Ten to one
is available around him. which does not
make Cannon's charge even SECOND
comes J. B. Joers Spanish Prince at 9
10 / and n few days ago Spanish Prince
was evenly regarded wit Long Set
Mercutio beat Spanish Prince q year i,, ago
at precisely the same weighis there
seems no good and sufficient reason why
tho result should be reversed. The story IT,.
tried in the 1911 Lncolnshirc, yet those
OF us who were ut Lincoln that day VIII
recall that Danny -Maher began driving
him hard before the first quarter was
passed Should Spanish Prince win 1t
would mean an upset of all available
form comparison.
AS TO Mercutio tnat so many are over
looking. it can he authoritatively stated
that he is sure to run, and, with equal
emphasis, there arc few at least who
tainly that he will be ahead OF Long
Set and Spanish Prince at the end of
tho mile course.
Tne top-weieht horse. Hornets
Beauty, ought to finish in the money:
IN fact he should be closer 10 first place
than the 10 TO / available upon Sir VIII
liam Cookies crack would indicate Hor
nets Beauty has never tasted defeat on
English coll. winning fifteen races last
season. although most OF the time he
wss admittedly in soft places. He has
yet 10 prove tnat he Is the high class
horse claimed for him. but If he really
Is a tUp-sawyer then he has indeed been
leniently dealt with by the handicap-
pers.
OF ali the other probable and possible
starters, one of the most consistently
played ones is the French horse. Mary
the Second. that some seem to think has
better than an outside chance at 95
pounds. She is mare. To be sure, and
there ia a rather decided prejudice here
against mares for the first handicaps OF
the year on the ground that they do not
come TO hand carly enough In fact. In
the past twenty years only one mare.
Little Eva, has ever Won the Lincoln
shire.
Getting down to the Grand National
steepIechase, which is decided on the
Friday after the Lincolnshire. Rathnally
appears to be the one horse for which
there Is so much demand And this has
been the case almost from the start
When horse Is but to / three weeks
before n steeplechase race with n field
Of thirty odd possibilities, the odds are
indeed practically prohibitive, and yet
the play OF Rathnally continues, Rath-
Taliy looked like a winner OF the race a
year ago, when he was sadly lntenered
with but IL must not be forgotten thai
lie will have eleven pounds more weight
in the saddle this month, while that OF