The Washington times., 1912-03-28
, House and DR.. Street to Ship
Racers From Columbia
49, Track.
HAS FOUR LIKELY
TWO-YEAR-O
Recruited Stable From James R.
Keene's Castleton Farm.
Seneca II Good Sprinter.

NORFOLK, Va, March 2S.-Robert
Levy, general manager of the James
town Jockey Club, got word today from
Columbia to the effect that Walter
House and DR.. s. w. Street, would be
here in the course of the current week
House, who until a year ago trained
for w. H. jerks, a well-known con-
tractor and builder of New York, has
four likely two-year-olds, which he
wintered at Columbia. He did not race
at Charleston because he wanted to
give the youngsters a fair chance to
develop strength for racing in the East
and North.
DR.. Streets stable was recruited at
James r. Keene's Castleton Farm, prin-
cipally Of horses that raced under the
spotted jacket of the vice chairman of
the Jockey Club in Great Britain a few
seasons ago. He has serviceable
psguse an and SgSsfa m seneca 6s son wS1 of
at Laurel last fall and raced creditably
here afterward. Sea Swell, son Of Ce-
sarion, is however, the mainstay Of the
Columbia in December just after the
finish of the jamestown Jockey Clubs
fall meeting and has been going nicely
since the middle of February.
Half dozen stables that were all in
in January, when the Charleston meet
ing began, remained at Columbia and
their owners are not sorry. The weather
there through the winter was not Sc
we're and they have been working steadl-
, ly the last five or six weeks with the
result that they are ready for the big
game. The Columbia colony will stop
over at Norfolk on the way North to
Pimlico and Canada.
Favorite Resort.
South Carolina has long been a IA
vorite wintering place for great East
ern stables The late William c. Whit
ney and his son, Harry Payne Whit
ney; P. S. P. Randolph, and Francis R.
and Thomas Hitchcock have long been
partial to Aiken, and August Belmont,
chairman of the Jockey Club of New
York, has for twenty years affected
Garnet, where he owns a game pre-
serve and some twenty thousand acres.
Last winter Harry X. Knapp and H
Il. Hallenbeck, of New York, shipped
spots in the District, but the horses
are now ready to take the field and
win right along.
Mr.. Levy said yesterday that the
coming meeting would run at least
from April to q, and that there is a
possibility of its being extended It's
duration depends entirely upon what
the Maryland Jockey Club decides to
do at PimlicO, the license of the Jockey
Club giving the jamestown Jockey
Club full authority to race until with
in two days of the Pimlico session.
Joseph McLennan, secretary of the
, track, sent word from Benning yester-
: day that Albert Smons would be here
on Thursday. McLennan spent Sunday
at the old Washington track, where the
biggest colony of horses in the East
hibernated. The weather was rough in
spjots in the District, but the horses
came through the winter without an
epidemic of pulmonary troubles and
ore going right along.
Good Winter Stable.
Washington has long been a favorite
place for wintering a stable Of horses
because of its equable climate and the
equally important circumstance that the
deep sand of the old Benning course
rarely freezes at all, and never to great
depth. 1t is possible to keep a horse
galloping all winter.
The horses of the Simons menage are
as forward as any at Benning, and their
trainer expects to get on the job direct
ly the jamestown Jockey Club meeting
opens. Simons thinks we'll of Silly
Night, a daughter of Sandringham
and Nespers, and full sister to that
good campaigner Angelus. Silly Night
u a strapping four-year-old mare
destined ultimately for service at Harry
Payne Whitneys Brookdale stud, and
0imons will try her out this season over
q distance Of ground.
McLennan had a good look at the
Simons horses Sunday, and was much
impressed by the improvement over
winter in the three-year-old FLIES
Moisant and Eton Blue Both Of these
mares are pleasantly remembered by
Norfolk turf folk. They began their
racing careers here last spring, and
Eton Blue came back in the autumn.
They are, McLennan declares, as good
lockers as can be found at Washington,
and they are ready. Moisant was easily
the better of the pair last season. Indeed.
she took up top weight in handicaps
and beat the smartest of the colts that
raced She did not appear here in the
autumn because her failures at Laurel
in October demonstrated that she was
all in for the season.