Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-21
NEWSY TURF LETTER
Weather Fav0rs Old Horses in
Races at Palmetto Park.
CLOSING DAY DRAWS NEAR
Derby on Last Day Will Be the
Feature Event of
Meeting.
BY JOE KNIGHT.

CHARLESTON, s. c.. March 21.-Mid-
summer weather-the kind that makes
straw and Panama hats in vogue-and
which gives the best class of horses
chance to get at their opposition on
good going, has been the rule at Pal
metto Park during the week just passed.
Conditions here day by day, as the
meeting approaches its close March -
are more and more like those of last Win
ter, in so far as public interest and high
quality of sport are concerned. Never
theless an element of class existent here
last year is missing, and the fact that
the ring is not an open one finds its re-
Election in the conservatism of the bigger
players.
Two-year-old supremacy remains. I'M
settled; the older horses are meeting and
beating one another at every opportunity,
and with the waning interest in this and
that possibility as he is either shown up
or blown up universal attention turns to
the probable field in the Palmetto Derby,
the three-thousand-dollar feature OF the
closing day, when three-year-olds will go
route for the first time on the American
turf in 1913.
Seventeen nominations were originally
made, but misfortune. sales of candidates,
in one instance death and the disclosure
u lack OI CLASS all nave Hdu tHcIE Shdi Z
in depicting the probable field to less than
ten. Nevertheless this event, to be run
fourth on the getaway day card, dwarfs
all others in point Of interest though the
field may. not be either SO large or so
classy as last years.
Turkey in the Straw, which I'll. u. Bed
well nominated with Early Light. will not
start This Virginia bred colt is not cup
to the caliber required, and has been on
the ailing list. The redoubtable 'Haw-
thorn. winter favorite for, the Kentucky
Derby, will not appear under colOrs until
the premier Blue Grass event. Rostur-
tium, which Nathaniel B. Davis of Ken
lucky named with Nash Cash, has been
turned out in Canada all winter. Lou
Marion nominated, but will not start,
Prince Hermis. Rock Bar. the highly
bred but disappointing performer in the
Tennessee stables list Of nominations,
cannot go route and his recent races
have proved his lack of class. SO the .'yel-
low, green cap of Francis j. Pons will
be borne either by Jack Kellogg Or Judge
Wright. Jack Kellogg is the colt which
as a yearling brought the top price of
$4,000 at the Sanford dispersal sale at
unbeaten son of Superman arid Debacle
which was uncovered at Hamilton last
summer as a two-year-old and showed
dazzling speed.
Jack Kellogg May Do.
Jack Kellogg SO far has failed to
prove that he can go route, though
Trainer Jack Mccormack has every
confidence in this grand-looker's stay
ing abilities; Judge Wright has been
gone slowly with, as he developed ILL
ness in his two-year- form, and
symptoms of it. so the stable talk runs
still remain. Nash Cash would be
good colt on anybody's slow track.
but on fast going he may not do.
Bernadotte, John E. Madden's de-
pendence, has proved disappointment.
He graduated out of the maiden class
from a rather unlikely bunch last
Tuesday, and entered to be sold for
$500, attracted no bid from the sharps
whose halters have been active here
this winter as last.
The field of probable starters, there
fore, from which advance speculation
already is being adduced, is as fol-
lows:
Early Light; be-, 3. Peep o Day-Wantage.
H. G.. Bedweli.
Chiffon King, che, 3, Chiffon Hanover oneen,
Nash Cash, che. 3, Nastmtium- seattercash
n B. Davis.
Talecarrier, be. 3. Armeath II-Jumbly Girl.
Mrs. Lily A. Livingston.
Jack Kellogg, che, 3, Moha wk-Auriesvile,
Tennessee Stable.
Monocacy, chg, 8. Hamburg Monadour, ]. o.
Talbot
Henpeck. blkf., 3. Deihl-Home Rule, j. o.
Talbot.
OF these Henpeck is the only FLY which
will start. Both she and Monocacy are
in condition to be fitted for the race,
though neither has shown enough in pub