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LIEBER KARLS GOOD RACING. Lieber Karl is reported to have grown and improved as a good horse in good health should while in winter retirement during the interval between his career as a three-year-old and a four-year-old. Observers at Memphis report him to be sound and training with lusty enjoyment of his daily sxercise. Had there been no Plaudit in the way last year this good colt would have been a triple Derby winner. As it was, no one doubted that next to Plaudit ha was by far the best of his age in the west. Going amiss early in the summer, he bad to he retired for the remainder of the year. It is more than probable that he will make amends this year if no further mischance interrupts his career. As a two-year-old Lieber Karl went into winter quarters with a deservedly high reputation. His first start as a three-year-old was for the Tennessee Derby at Memphis. He was an odds-on favorite and won as he pleased from Isabey, Goodrich and Wilson. The mile and an eighth, course was covered in 1 :57i. All but Goodrich carried 122 pounds, he having up 112. For the Luehrmann Hotel Stakes a fow days later he carried 125 pounds and easily defeated Isabey 122, and Banished 117. Then he won the Pea-body Hotel Handicap with 114 pounds up from Buckvidere, 100; Estaca, 105; Boanerges, 110; Sidonian, 92, and Banished, 98. Three such, fine performances in succession served to confirm the glowing reports of his excellence that had floated up from Memphis all through the spring and he went to the post for the Kentucky Derby, at Louisville, one of the hottest favorites known in connection with that race, it being only 1 to 3 against him. At the end of a splendidly contested race, he had to succumb to Plaudit by a neck. He was giving Plaudit five pounds. In the Clark Stakes Plaudit beat him again and this time it was Lieber Karl that was in receipt of five pounds. They tried conclusions again in the Oakley Derby, and again it was Plaudit first, and Lieber Karl second. At St.Louis he ran a great race for the Club Members Handicap at a mile and a quarter. What er Lou with only 97 up won, but Liebor Karl carrying 111 was second defeating Elusive 107, Counter Tenor 105, and Our Chance 92. Lieber Karl was then taken east where he started but three times. At Brooklyn, 114 up, he won a sweepstakes at a mile and a sixteenth from Frances Booker 87, Handball 114, and Colonel Tenny 90. Then, carrying 126 pounds, ho ran second at a mile to Swif tmas 106, and wound up his season by running third to Tabouret and Fleeting Gold in a seven furlongs handicap at Morris Park: weights, Tabouret 106, Fleeting Gold 88, Lieber Karl 126. His tabulated record for his two seasons on the track is as follows : Yr. Age. Races. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1897 2 15 6 5 1 3 ,815 1898 3 10 4 5 1 0 8.840 Totals 2 25 10 10 2 3 3,655
