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- - i - C NKW PORTS PROSPECTS. Manager Frank Fowler of the Newport race track expects to be out .of doors at will hereafter, having entirely recovered from his recest attack of appendicitis. Mr. Fowler will give his entire attention at once to the Newport race meeting, which begins Monday. The rrosj ects for the meeting are very good, and it is expected to be the best meet in the history of the Queen City Jockey Club. All that will be required to make the meeting a success financially will be the presence in the betting ring of enough bookmakers to enable tlie track to get a fait daily revenue. This, combined with the gate receipts and other sources of income, it is figured, will make Newport ■ good financial winn r thi.-spring. As for the racing, Secretary Roger Sullivan say-it will be the best the Track has had in years. Nearly all the best hcrs-es that took part in the Louisville meeting will tome here, -ome staid ing at Newport and others at Latonia. A- Latonia and Newport raee on alternate weeks, the same class of horses will. in the main, be seen at both tracks. In the program issued for the first week of racing at Newport, provision has been made for seve.algood overnight handicaps, and. in consequent, pome fast and clean sport may l e expected. Every one w ill recall what good racing there was at Newport la-t fall, and how many of th« handicaps resulted in stirring contests that were fought down to the last jump. Secretary Sullivan sajs the same quality of sport will bs f*een at the meeting which begins Monday. As regards bookmakers, Manager Fowle says he expects the same men who will book at La-I tonia will have their slates up at Newport It is expected that ten bookmakers will le ift line at Newport next Monday, as a number of pioni-nent pencilers have decided to come here instead of going to St. Louis and Chicago. Starter Jake Holtman has been busy .it, Newport eacli morning since his arrival here s*t-eral days ago schooling green two-yea :-ol*ls to the barrier. Jake has been successful in breaking a number of youngsters that were inclined to be flighty when facing the barrier, and be says he does not expect to have mud trouble next Monday. Holtman has made a fin« rword with the Hag at Newport, and he is one of the best starters in the west. His work at Now port last fall could not have been Improved upon, and it is assured good starting will be obv of the features of the meeting. Jackson Smith, the popular L. ■ N. Railroad official, will be the presiding judge, and his as-i sociates will be Henry Queen and S «»e*ary Sullivan. Judge Smith is one of the moft capa-■ ble racing officials that has ever been in a local stand, and Newport, under his eye, eaii be ex- pected to keep up the clean sport it has always given t lie public in the past. — Cincinnati Com-i mercial-Tribune.
