The Washington times., 1913-03-03
JAMESTOWN MEET
ATTRACTS HORSES
Entry Of Six Hundred Predicted for Spring Races Which Open
Up March a1-same Officers as Last Season
in Charge Again.

NORFOLK, Va, March 2-With ap-
plications for stabling coming In from
all quarters 1t Is safe to predict that
the jamestown Jockey Club will have
upward Of GOO horses for the spring
meeting which win begin on the first OF
April and continue through the 17th-
The Jockey Club gave the jamestown
Jockey Club permission to race March
81. but that will not be possible. The
Virginia law prohibits the racing Of
horses between December and April 1.
Tie officers OF the coming meeting
will be the same who have had charge
of previous sessions here Frank j.
Dryan and Joseph Murphy will be IN
the stewards stand; Eoward Cole will
officiate as presiding judge with Fred
". Gerhardy as his associate; Wars Mars
Conkling will be clerk of scales. Harry
White paddock and patrol Judge, and
Joseph McLennan will be clerk OF the
course. The handicapping will be done
by Messrs. Bryan. Murphy, and Ger
hardy.
More than 100 horses wintered at the
local track. and they are 40 well ad-
vanced runners coming this way from
Juarez and Charleston will have moth
ing on them. The weather has been
delightfully."- spring like since the 1st
Of ana sne n@ard nas Of DSso tWo
weeks. The horsemel who wintered
at Norfolk were william Martin. Albert
Simons, Frederick T Miller, Hugh
Penny. Max Hirsch. Edward Rathman.
w. v. Conran. William Redmond. J
Charles, and Jack Thornby. Recent
arrivals are Hunter G. Breckinr1dge:
william Shields, Theodore Coles, and
Al G. Weston.
Weston Gets In.
Mr.. Weston got in couple of days
ago from Salisbury, with the news that
Capt. William Frederic Presgrave Will
race half a dozen campaigners at Nor
folk. Weston has string OF eight
of his own, and he has taken charge
of live belonging to Richard T. Will
son, which got in a couple OF days ago.
These are the advance guard OF the
bunch Thomas Healy will campaign dur
ing the jamestown Jockey Cluo meet
ing, for the enterprising president OF the
Saratoga Association for the Improve
ment of the Breed of Horses. Mr..
Healey has the other members Of his
string at Belmont Park. where he win
tered.
Walter House, Frank Bray, and ]. T.
Temple will be in from Baltimore early
in the week. Other horses coming In
the course Of fortnight belong to
vid Gideon. Edward Moore, and Mrs.
Lillian y. Livingston.
Mrs. Livingston came up last week
from her place in Georgia, and looked
the local plant over. She liked every
thing she saw and. after inspecting
Albert Simons' youngsters, subscrtb-
ed 10 James Rowe's declaration that
Norfolk is the best place in America
at which to winter a stable intended
for early racing.
Martin Recruits.
The stable William Martin has here
was recruited from Mrs. Livingston's
Rancocas stud in New Jersey. and the
youngsters are in fine fettle. One OF
Martins fillies is the fastast breaker
from the barrier at the track. All the
horses here have had schooling at the
gate under the direction of George
Miller. who. besides being a first-rate
track superintendent, is capital start
er.
Albert Simons is training a dozen
smartly bred youngsters from Harry
Payne Whitneys Brookdale Farm.
Simons did land office business in
two-year-olds last season. He sold here
at Norfolk, Leochares. Buskin. Tarts.
and three or four other youngsters that
themselves in the United
States and Canada. 1t Is impossible to
tell just now what his new crop will
show. but there are some uncommonly
good lockers among them. and they
work like the wind. Simons has an ex-
ceptionally we'll schooled bunch. No
man. indeed, has been buster at the
barrier than he.
The smartest horse of mature age in
his charge Is Lahore. a son of Delhi
and Nora Creina. who was In tip-top
condition last fall. Lahore wintered
splendidly. and Simons believes he will
come to hand earlier than has been
his wone. When Lahore Is at his best
II takes a first-class horse to beat him
any distance from three-Quarters Of