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I , . , i - IMPS CAMPAIGN. When Imp won the Oriental Handicap at Gravespnd laBt Saturday, it was said that Bho would be raced no more this year. This is evidently the belief at Chillicothe. A dispatch from that quiet little city to the Cincinnati Enquirer of Monday, said: "That peerless little racing mare Imp closed her EeaFon yesterday at Sheepshead Bay, and if present plans are carried out will reach home Wednesday to spend the winter on the Bros man farm, oast of town. Elaborate preparations are being made f. r her recaption, which will be tho biggest thing of the kind that has ever taken plasohare. A brass band has been engaged to head thexprocession, and following it will come Imp, decorated with wreaths and flowers. Following her will come a number of open carriage?, occupied by her owner, trainer and prominent horsemen here, and Imps brother, Crasnder who is expected to be one of the son-sations of next spason, will come next. Other fast horses will ba in the procession, which will be closed by a float bearing the immense floral horseshoe presented to Uncle Dan Harness by the Coney Island Jockey Club. The procession will proceed through the. principal street?, aud there will ba a number of addresses by well-known men. It is suggested that Imp be taken to the fair ground track and put through a trial performance, the proceeds to go to the City Hoipital, bat it is not known positively whether, this will be done. "Imps record for the past ueason has bean a phenomenal one, and bor winnings have aggregated 00,003. Even if she is retire! from the turf with this season, her record is one that has never been approached. She is yet in her prime, being only five years old, and should be able to develop greater endurauca than ever next season, but her owner is in favor of keeping her at home for breeding purposes, in the balief that her get could sweop all tho tracks in tho country in a few yeais. Her trainer, Mr. Charles Brossman, it is understood, is in favor of taking her to England next year to compete in the b.g races there, and no decision will be finally reached until he arrives here and the matter can ba thoroughly discussed. The formal reception to Imp will probably take place Thursday afternoon, although it may ba postponed to Saturday, when all her country admir ers oan come to town to sea her. Tne line of march will be decorated in her honor, and every effort will ba made to render her reception worthy of the greatest racehorse of the season." The proposed celebratioais something unique and amueiag but pr. bab.y any other rural community would taka an equal measure of pride in the local possession of such a famous horse. Imp, this year, has started in thirty-one races, of which she has won thirteen, baen stcond in three, third in six and unplaced in nino. , Her total net windings for the reason are 0,475. Her first start was at Washington, D. C, April 8, and she ran unplaced to Beau Ideal, Imp era-tor and Alice Farloy. April 12 she won a purse at a mile and a sixteen. h wiih Alice Farloy second. Then she was takon to Nc n York and was bsaten in six consecutive races before she scored. Her first success was iu a purse race at Morris Park for which she dofeated Glonoino and other platers. Then with 110 poundB up she was started for tho Brooklyn Handicap, and finished next to last. She now b.-gan to improve, and bafore tho matting closed pull d off two purse races in fant time from fair hi fees. In her next essay she electrified the racing world by wiuning the Suburban Handi-. cap, setting a new record for the race and upsetting the idea that a mare could not win that particular reca. She carried but 114 pounds. In her next four essays she was beaten, but on tho opening day at Brighton Beach she won the Brighton Handicap from Ethelbert, Bangle and other good ones, doing the mile and a quarter in 2:05, with 115 pounds in the saddle. This was her richest stake success, the event netting ,420. After that Imp was topwoighi in all handicaps and that honor led her to accumulate some defeats, but she contrived to win the Islip Stakes, Ocean Stakes, Turf Handicap, First Special, Second Special and The Oriental Handicap, and acquired the w ell-earned reputation of being the greatest race mare this country has ever produced. No wonder the good people of Chillicothe, O., are prepared to jubilato when she returns to her home in their midst.
