New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22
High Rock, by Rock Sand,
Is Supposed to Have Out
side Chance in Race.
HERR BACKING HIS
COLT, SHORT GRASS
Oxford Depending on Ravens and
Taber to Bring a Victory
Over Cambridge.
from The Tribune corresponacn,. ]


London, March 1S.-Followng the Gus
tom Of many years. England's fiat racing
season Will open at Lincoln on the Tues
day OF the fourth week OF March, which
will he March q. and the mile race for the
famous old Lincolnshire handicap will he
run on the following day.
or the four American horses entered IN
January for this. the first big event OF the
season. two seem reasonably sure to go
20 the post. They are Outram and High
Rock. and each has had a special prep
and is liked by its stable
Outram was bred i'm Kentucky by james
+. Keene, the late yice-chairman OF the
Jockey club at New York. and is five
vear-old by Mr.. Keene's 1895 Brooklyn
Iaudicap winner. Delhi (by Ben Brush
Veva) out of Bingham.
High Rock is an honest. plain-lookng
but dependable brown foUr-year-old colt
bv Rock Sand-Hautcsse. lie Won two
races last season, was second In three
was third in three end placed fourth
once. quite useful record. lie Is an
early spring horse, too. Last year on
March u. at Leicester. he ran second 20
Richard Cookers Derby colt Knight s
Key for the Durham Plate OF 5000, with
the California bred colt Ocydrome (bI
Ossary-Bele of Palo Alto third, and ten
others behind them
On April . High Rock won the Welbeck
Handicap. OF $500, from eighteen three
year-ods, and three days later lie ran
second, giving seventeen pounds, 10 the
half-Amerlcan colt China Cock, which
last November won the Liverpool Autumn
Gun. one Of the big handicaps of the end
OF the season.
This was a good beginning for High
Rock. and he kept it up until he went into
winter quarters. He invariably ran IN
large fields and always was on the prem
ises AT the finish beating perhaps fifteen
or eighteen horses and only succumbinS
TO one or two. to which ne was conceding
weight. His most important victory was
I'm the Imperial handicap Of $500 at
Lingheld on May Il.
These were not high class handicaps,
hacking from rs to 125 pounds; whereas
he is simply thrown into the first big
race OF the coming season with the
. feather OF ~ pounds. II a genuine rider
could ne secured for this American horse
at that weight High Rock would be
fine take-a-c chance bet. seeing that % to
/ ! is an offer against him. The favorite
stands at as good as 10 to J. for a field
J OF two dozen seems assured.
The other American candidate. Outram.
J is not popular at Newmarket, because he
never won last year when every one was
| betting on him However, that may not
! have been the horses fault The son OF
Delhi was IN the hands Of an astute train
or, and the betting sharps at Newmarket
never could gauge whether the signals
read "to-day's the day" or nothing
doing"
| The late Mr.. l<eene and II. de Courcy
! Forbes tried Outram for smart two
| year-old in 1911. That they were not
wrong was shown last May. when Outram
carried l23 pounds to victory in the race
| OF mile and 10 yards for the Cheshire
| Handicap. Of 600. and four days later
won another handicap Of similar value
| from field OF eleven that included some
useful horses.
After finishing away back three times
! Outram came out I'm July and won an
other small handicap with l26 pounds at
| Sandown. From then until the end or
the season Outram seemed 10 he run
! ning for Sweeney" With only % pounds
| to carry IN the Lincolnshire. he seems To