Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
HORSES At NORFOLK.
High Class Thoroughbreds Are
Ready for Spring Meeting.
AVIATOR STAR OF THE LOT
Fred Miller Expects to Clean Up
With the Son Of
Broomstick.

NORFOLK, Va, March Sired T. Mil
Ter Of Washington Is training the hand
soonest and best-conditioned horse at the
Jamestown Jockey Clubs track in Ayi-
ator, a son of Broonlsrick, that his brother
Bob got here last spring from Capt. p
NJ. Walker Of Winchester. And all Nor
folk knows Aviator. He won two races
last fall and the Millers cleaned up a
small fortune. In the first of those races
Aviator beat the redoubtable Berkeley.
and after that victory the Millers declar-
ed that they would not be afraid OF
Caugh Hill. Caugh Hill was, indeed. one
OF the overnight nominations for the Sec
ond race destined to fall to the son Of
Broomstick. but he sidestepped.
Aviator has taken on $50 pounds since
he went into winter quarters, and he
makes as fine an appearance on the track
Of mornings as any mans four-year-oio.
Already he is working halves in 50 sec
at the first asking. Aviator has sup
planted Fond Heart as the mainstay OF
the Miller stable.
But Old Fond Heart is looking ''peart"
between Fred Miller and the track super
intendent subsidies her preparation Tor
the races will begin. Fred Miller has had
Fond Heart for some time, but it appears
that the secret Of getting her to the post
in winning form belongs to brother
George, who guards 1t well.
Fond Heart Is q Hastings and a whim-
steal huzzy. She was Hawkins horse
here last spring when she won four
purses. But she did not hold her win
ming gait on the half-mi,e tracks through
the summer and she was of small use In
the autumn.
There is third horse in the Miller
barn now, Ochre Court. son OF Ogden:
0~t@ ~ 1ocyk a
from ]. L. Holland and Trainer Fred has
been working all winter on his legs.
which were never especially good. Last
season, because Of these poor legs. Ochre
Court was of little account save on a
slow track, but he has improved SO under
the care Of his new trainer 1t looks now
as though he may show something worth
while in fast going.
Miller intends to try Ochre Court at one
mile and sixteenth with the smartest
distance running platers here the first
week, of. the meeting. The Millers have
not engaged rider for Aviator and Fond
Heart and Ochre Court, but it is under
stood that they may get first call on the
at Charleston as a free lance.
Albert Simons says it will not be pos
sible after all to get Lahore ready for
racing this spring He will, accordingly,
at Brookdale Farm in New Jersey under
the charge Of James Rowe and devote
his energies to the training OF the two
year-olds Of the Whitney establishment.
It will be time enough to take Lahore up
after the horses get to Havre de Grace.
And Simons will have all he can do to
manaRe the two-year-Olds.
Jockey Edward Ambrose will do the
riding for the Whitney stable this year
in the room Of Jimmie Butwell. who had
the job last season. Ambrose did not go
to Charleston last December after the
wind-up of the autumn session Of the
Jamestown Jockey Club. He remained in
Norfolk with Simons. and is helping In the
work OF preparing the Whitney two-year-
Odds for their early engagements.
Ambrose will be very useful to Mr..
Simons this spring. He is a quick lad
at the barrier and very energetic. Am
Norfolk races. He was developed by
Hugh Penny and did most of his riding
here last year and the year before. ST.
mons has q notion he can make first
rate jockey Of Master Edward.
George w. Langdon sends word from
New York THAT he vii! want three or four
stalls for the coming meeting. Langdon
has three three-year-olds In training. at
Sheepshead Bay. and he expects to get
good twO-year-old or so before the Nor
folk meeting is many days old. His three
year-Olds are His Majesty, winner of the
Monticello Hotel Handicap last fall;
Briar Path. a daughter of Marta Santa
and Sweet Alice. and Bunch Of Keys. :.
Bay under the eye of James FitZsim-
mons and Mr.. Langdon took them up
the LIST of March. His Majesty viii be
Mr.. Langdon's candidate for the Month
cello Hotel Handicap. the best stake the
Jamestown Jockey Club has advertised
this spring. He is a son OF Ogden and
Her Majesty (she q daughter Of His
Highness and Butterflies, both Futurity
winners). and he showed high class when
he defeated Lahore in the Monticello last
fall. A two-year-old capable OF taking
up reasonably big weight and defeating
old horses at such a distance as one mile
will always bear watching.
His Majesty has developed in every
particular since Langdon shipped him to
Sheepshead Bay in December, and David
Gideon. his breeder predicts that he will
beat any three-year-old he tackles this
year. That is a big order. but Mr.. Cid
con is something Of Judge Of budding
th-ee-year-old talent. He has been a sue
cessful horseman many years.
1t is the intention Of Mr.. Langdon to
start His Majesty in the Preakness Hand
leap at Baltimore, and his effort in the
Monticello will be part of his prepara-
ton for that important special It is
highly probable that His Majesty will
meet August Belmont's Rockview and
Anthony L. Astes' Ten Point in the
Preakness. and they are some three
year-Olds.
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