The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-09

NORFOLK, VA, March s.-The
stabling assigned so far by the James,
town Jockey club for the Norfolk
spring meeting, which begins April
LIST, to run seventeen days. represents
IS per cent of the available space
The horsemen to whom stalls have
been allowed are w. -. Althouse.. An
thony L. Aste. Nat Dyer, John Duffy,
James Fitzsimrtsons, Frank c. Frisbie,
Paul Fox, William Garth. Frank Il.
Gardner, Thomas j. Henley, Max
Hirsch. Edward Heffner. Walter S.
House, ]. r. johnson, william Kar-
rick, g, ". Langdon, IL. J. Morris,
Mrs. l. A. Livingston, J, l.. McGinnis.
j. e. Nash, w, L. Oliver, Captain
=. Randolph Or, S. w Sterrett. J. T.
Temple, Ernest Utterback Slas
Neitch, J. NJ. Van Orden, Richard
#. Wilson. Jr.. Captain Philip NJ.
walker, Al. 6. Weston. John Whalen,
William Walker and August Belmont
Captain Philip Walker. a retired Of
ffcer of the army, who halls from the
valley Of Virginia, is wintering his
string at Washington He did not go to
n winter track last fall as had been
his custom. His horses needed a rest
and they are the better for having had
it, The captain expects important
things this spring of Madrigallian. a
horse he bought a year ago last fall
from Mrs. Lily A. Livingston, of Ran
cocas farm
Has Not Lost Race.
Madrigallian. big son of Armoath.
has not had race now for upwards
of a year. He was at Laurel, Md,
last summer under the care of DR..
Henry ]. Mccarthy, the Maryland State
KS tartnariau, and bis Iega are in first
lon "a gain t1A a hGTSA
az high breeding and much ability
and 1t is likely that he Will bear Cap
tain Walkers silks in the Monticello
hotel handicap, q $l.5oo race al one
mile and a sixteenth for three-year-
olds and over. the best prize of the
spring performance.
TIE Monticello will close, with three
other stakes of 81, 900 zach, Marcn
18th.
Captain Walker believes that old
0akhurst In IN better condition than
he has been in a couple Of seasons,
and he has "a notion that the once
COURAGEOUS aud consistent Aspirin viii
recover his form this spring. Aspirin
was always partial 10 the Norfoii.
track oakhurst, however. never
seemed 10 like it.
Aspirin is fun brother 70 Frog
legs one Of the greatest OF the three
EeaT-0IGS OF kflF stsSbh VA A74 . fNsftA
he dearly loves a dista nee nj ground
Captain Walkers New YORK bGed
sprfnter, Isidora. daughter " IsldoI
and Auriesvilie and sister I" ttofk-
VILE. Herkimer and Jack Kellogg, mas
DEVELOPED into good looktn$ Tour
year.old. II is improbable thas
Isidora will ever carry her speed over
4. distance If ground. bat she manages
weight cleverIy and is always Gan
capnya iya enriUts.
Likely Three Ycar-oid.
+, ix indeed a question whether the
country affords a aeeter sprinter AT
threeAuuarters of mile or seven
eirhths Cordie f., a filiy by Ihe
Scribe. for which Captain walker paao
q hegrariy hundred dollars last winter
n Charleston and won out many
times over, has developed into hke-
Is looking three-year-old. she acts
as though she can run ana she IN Soie
to win.
Cautain walker has only one or
two fwo~year- olds this spring, put ne
IL in the market for likely young
sters and Is apt 10 make one or two
shre,yd purchases, That he knows a
smart baby when he sees one. the
purchase Of Cordie r, indicated.
John DUFFY. the developer OF Flafn-
ma and Breaker Boy, is spending the
winter nj EllEdDfliA NsAAss ~ -
both the Hastings Ally and the Orslni
coli are doing nicely. They are I'M
derroing preparation for the Nor
folk races over the sandy roads amour
Elizabeth City. Breaker Boy was
rather light and ragged last season
He had not, when Duffy left Nor
folk for winter quarters IN Decerl-
Der. recovered from an attack q s1ck
ness of the preceding year. But ne
has nut on lot Of flesh and Will come
"a The post in April a powerful a-year-
old Duffy always considered breaker
Roy a better two year~old than ram
ma. even when Fiamma was at the
top OF her form, and he expects the
son Of Orsini 70 become the mainstaS
Of HIS stable. FlaTnma, however, mas
improved herself
yerguSou VIII Ride.
Duffy expects "a ride Andy FERGUSON
this spring, Fergus{9,n VII come, c9ne - y
fhe polmont stable, 70 which he Is re-
rtIarlY attached now. Ferg aspn
pleased the chairman e q me !oekSg
njfo,ed Mission To victory in the Bowie
fstakcz at Pimlica. Mir. belmont mas
Instructed Fenstssl no to % siye s,. ths
nrst rats, rider of himself,
The Randolph stable, which Is rest
Ing this winter for the hrst tine ~
JnLewood n g., under the charge OF
Young lake Dyer. Dyer viii not bring
back any such route traveller as Psa i,.
i.xf snriuw and sold at Pimlico 10
Rohert Davies. THE brewer and breeder
or Toronto, but he Will have FIRST,
rate sprinter in Bosom and good
DISTANCE running platter in Racquet
These are iron horses They have
canpaigned steadily for upward Of I'VE
resom IL one of the cleverest sprinters
about when right and reports from
Lakewood indicate that he is going
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Racquet, son OF
panald and a grandson of Salvador
laid up the better part of last season
and viii come back to the races sound
and fresh,
Collins SIGNS Contract