Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-10

many years such choice lot of two
year-olds. so forwardly in condition, SO
promising in the proves their breeding
lines hold forth
Good Two-Year-Olds.
1t has fallen to the lot of filly-and
a good one. too-to win such laurels this
winter. Please Welles, bay filly, in the
barn of G. Moore Johnson, the Tennessee
trainer. and bred at the farm of John
d. Carr. near Lexington, KY, is the one
to win this merit Though Gordon. the
full brother to Eaton. in the stable Of j.
L. Holland. has shown UP impressiveiy in
the colt division, this smart flly has
beaten him. has won both her two starts
each time in different going. has never
been fully extended, and on a track
much slower to the mile than was the
case last year. due to conditions already
detailed has come within two-fifths of a
second of equaling the mark for a quar-
ter set by Jessie Porter and Pink Lady
just about year ago.
Please Welles. as her name in
by Cheviot. out of Charm. She is
slightly in excess of fifteen hands
high, and is perfectly formed. Chunky
In her build. and belying her short-cou-
pied girth in the measure Of ground she
is able to cover in her stride. she holds
forth all promise of being able to come
up to Kentucky later i'm the spring and
mold her own in the classieSt Of company
She is Please's first foaI to race. and al
ready her owner has been asked to set a
price on her, but has Steadfastly refused
In her appearance she is a little pic
ture horse She has Dick Welles' star
on her forehead, and about the legs and
wlthers Is patterned like her nanny.
Please was good race mare. and. though
never campaigned on the metropolitan
rcuit. gave a good account of herself
at sprint distances over all kinds of
going in the west. She is we'll remember
ed for her racing qualities of speed and
gamenesS, and observation of this filly
n action here justifies the prediction
made SO enriy in the meeting. that she
possesses great class as well as inherent
speed acquired on both her sire's and
dams sides.
ing lines are fashionable and familiar
The King Erics abilities to go on any
kind of track are indicated in her starts
here. On her dams side the breeding
line is classy and especially to Ken
tuckans. familiar. t is the family o
Thrty-third. of which Buckhorn last
year was the leading exponent; of Fairy
Rose and of Kisber, leading back to King
Tom. Please. her dam, was foaled in
1905, and is therefore a young mare to
drop such a promising performer.
At the spring sales in Lexington Please
Welles brought the ridiculously low price
of $435 r. p Dodson being the buyer,
from whom Mr.. Johnson acquired her.
Trainer Making Good.
One Of the signal successes scored so
far during the meeting has been by ].
NJ. Goode, the Kentucky trainer, two Of
whose useful horses have scored for him
at the first asking. He sent Toson dor
to the pest for the first time under his
handling here. and the old Gallaler p'atel
won at good price. Then he acquired
to train for ". p. Reed, the filly Gar
denia, and she, too. repeated Toison d Or's
performance by winning two in a row.
Toison d Or won back for him. and seems
to be a much improved horse over what
he displayed for the Gallaher brothers.
Goode has some good two-year-olds in
his barn which he has been going slow
with. but which will all be seen under
colors soon. He also has Flora Fana.
Mira Dell and Pat Rutledge. John p.
Johnson is what he calls his bay colt by
Marta Santa Semiramis All his young
sters are by Marta Santa, and this colt is
the best OF the lot. If looks count. He Is a
half brother to Sailmaker VINO cam
paigned about eight years ago. He has
also a bay colt. haf-brother to Polls.
winner of the Jacksonville derby, and
which .was campaisned i'm Kentucky by
r. l.. Thomas. out of Picayune. He calls
this one Doctor Kendall. A half-sister to
Black Chief out of Dolly Nc. is named
Jessie Lou Sc ard a half-s.ster to County i
Tax. which won we'll for Capt. Jim Will
l.ams former owner of Rams Horn and
Governor Gray, out OF country FRAUD,
is called Ida Cook.
All have shaded OA in their quarter
trials, and therefore Goode thinks highly
the Debutante stakes and the Juvenile
stakes. while all the others are we'll en-
gagged in the fixtures for the youngsters
to be decided during the meeting.
News from Maryland that the proposed
track to be built adjoining the present
Havre de Grace course would not be CIV
en- dates by the Hartford county racing
met with approval mere.
Horsemen who raced at Havra de Grace
at its first meeting and who were pleased
with the class OF sport displayed there
believe that the best interests OF the
game will be conserved with only one
track in Hartford county. Timothy
O'Leary, former police commissioner of
York are the biggest stockholders of the
present Havre de Grace course. and nat
urally the attitude of the Hartford county |
officials Is not displeasing to them.
What horsemen base their opposition to
the proposed course upon is the expert |
ence of the past-that competition Of the |
kind the promoters of the new course |
want to furnish binders rather than
helps the sport, entailing legal compiled. |
tions which hurt the game.