The Washington times., 1912-03-30
Third Trainer Lancaster
Owner Has Had in
One Year.
TWO NEW ASSOCIATES
SHOULD GET ON WELL
Have Good String of Horses
That Should Prove Bread
Winners.

NORFOLK. Va, March % -"Hanl-
some Jack" Flynn. formerly trainer of
the stable of Forrest Rose, Of Sabot,
Va, will come back to Norfolk at the
head of the establishment of J. W.
Hedrich. of Lancaster. Pa. Flynn is
the third trainer Mr. Hedrick has hal
In the course of n year lie started
last spring with Thomas Hatfield. md
Hatfield campaigned his horses with
success on the Canadien circGit through
the summer and fall adding to it, now
and then, by means of the selling race.
When. last November. Hatfield de.
cided to leave 4edricks employ and go
It alone. the Pennsylvania appointed
Mat Byer, the nan who had had
charge of the horses of p. S. p. Kan-
dol.)h and had developed that good
Plaudit geldlng, Plate Glass, in his
place. Byer ma Hedrick parted com
pany at Charleston early in the winter,
Flynn succeeding.
: Flynn aud HehriCk have been friends
a long time anI they should get on
well together. Hadrick likes to put
down bet now anl then. and Flynn,
himself has a bunch of serviceable
bread winners, Sir John Jokmson's half
brother. Mont ,atm. and The Golden
butterfly and old CConey *. among
them.
! Not long since Flynn added silas
Gruinp, fleet three-year- old by Rlues.
TO- the Hedrick string and sold Mont
Romcry 10 Guv BedwelI. Montgomery.
| II will be recalled. was taken bv He'd
rick here last fall rom Lewis Garth.
He offered the day after that trans
action TO sell the son of Pessare and
montgomery Cooper back to the young
Albemarle county trainer, but the Garth
sidestepped.
Montgomery was q great horse in his
day, but his lay had passed. Garth was
! glad TO be rid Of him. Hedrick said
Montgomery of retiring him for breed
ing to farm he owns In Pennsylvania.
bit he seems to have thought better OF
that scheme.
Another horse Hedrick has acquired
since he left Norfolk is the three-year-
old Rey, with which Andrew Godfrey
sIakeiey won Srsd race Ia last fall Rsy is
was by Golden Garter, and he has
fair turn OF speed. He is not, however.
horse of great class. and II he does
not cost the Hedrick- Flynn combina-
tton something they may consider them
selves lucky.
BIakeley is fair Judge of horse flesh,
and he did not care a great deal for
has carried his speed one mile and sew
enty yards and he goes well in muddy
going.
Mad River. a good looking three-year-
L old By Ethelbert, is in Flynns charge,
and he will probably do better at dis
lance running this year than he did in
sptnts Of FIVE rlongs and three-quart-
ers II mile, last season. Miss Jonah,
the mare with which Hedrick made a
killing the last day but one of the No
Nember meeting. is not coming back to
Norfolk. Hedrick has started her across
the continent with Sir Edward for SER
vice on the Pacific Slope. They are 60
ing to have good racing at Spokane and
elsewhere in the State of Washington
through the summer according to ad-
Nertsements published recently.
., Montcalm, son Of Rockton and La
Tosca 1TE II. Is popular in these parts. and
post In April in condition to win. Mont
4 calm has had some racing at Palmetto
Iark but he RECEIVERS quickly after a
Ehort rest. and Flynn will freshen him
{ The Golden Butterfly. who made good
+ time or two last fall, has been a
source Of expense to her Norfolk ad-
lnasmuch as she has raced hard Pal,
metto Park IT is not likely that Flynn
may be able to do a great deal with
Pat Civil. Harry Shannon. and c.
Davis are new arrivals at the local track
and they bring strings about ready FOR
racing. racing. Davis will have under his di-
tlum, a youngster by Nasturtium out
or PINK Rose and a winner at Palmetto
lark. Rnstnrtium was sired bv one ~
the best OF the sons of Watercress
NaSturtlum showed so well a Gravas
END In the Spring OF 1901 the late vii
lam {: Whitney paid Anthony L. Aste
Soo.oUO Tor him. and, after Nasturtium
had won the Flatbush stakes at Sheeps-
a neaa Bay, thereby proving that he
could carry his speed over a distance
OF ground he was sent to England TO
Try f3r thC Epson Derby of 1909.
Luck was not with the big chestnut
He fell sick on board ship and contract
ed catarrhal fever which left him thicI,
winded.N Nasturtium belongs, on the
emale side, to the family of Kinlev
Mack. He has been in the stud in this
country half dozen years. He has got
hall dozen good horses.
w. V. Conran, one of the horsemen
who remained at Norfolk after the de-
parture in January of the stables in
tended for winter track campaigning.
is rapidly getting his horses in CondI-
tiOn. He has something at work every
oaY and his stable must be reckoned
with from the start OF the April meet
ing One Of the most forward OF the
Conran string is George 6. Davis. a
son of Sombrero and Bellane. with
which the Tennessee turfman and his
s. Davis Is a half brother to St Bellane
one Of the best long distance runners
that ever appeared on the New York
tracks and he iS very fast especially in
muddy going. Davis sire is one of the
few American stations in England who
is having stud success One OF Som
brero's sons. the stout hearted Rubio.
won the Liverpool Grand National
Steeplechase few years back.