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MEMPHIS ITEMS I In the Ullmau winter book which has been made madeon on the Montgomery Handicap Waring has remained a strong choice with the betting public being backed from 25 to 1 to 3 to 1 Present prospects show more than fifteen candidates being hustled into shape for the race The question of jockeys has worried certain owners and even S C Hildreth has been until recently undecided as to who was to toride ride Waring It is now certain that Turner who is under contract to W C Whitney will have the mount Several owners stand to win small fortunes in the event of their candidates winning No one knows with the exception of Hildreth how much he will enrich his exchequer in the event of victory by either of his horses Hiram Pierce stands to win 10000 on Walkenshaw which was laid against 100 Albert Simons has good prospects of adding over 10600 to his winnings in the event of a victory victoryfor for Nitrate A list of probable starters with their weights and jockeys is as follows Horses Wt Jockeys JockeysWaring Waring 124 NTurner NTurnerHermencia Hermencia 102 Lady Wadsworth 92 Nobleman 92 Louden LoudenSilurian Silurian 100 J Walsh WalshFlying Flying Torpedo 107 Birkenrnth BirkenrnthWalkenshaw Walkenshaw 100 Otis OtisBarouche Barouche 94 Redfern RedfernBrigade Brigade 102 LeeKing 98 WaxTaper 124 Aker Flora AkerFlora Pomona 98 J Woods WoodsNitrate Nitrate 105 Coburn CoburnCaviar Caviar 117 OBrien OBrienMiraclcII MiraclcII 87 T ONeil ONeilScarletLily ScarletLily 95 There is a doubt about Coburn riding Nitrate Simons it is said has a contract on Cobnrns ser ¬ vices for the Montgomery Handicap and it is in his power to keep Coburn on the ground orride him on Nitrate NitrateRedfern Redfern has been engaged for Barouche for sev ¬ eral weeks and T P Hayes who has first call on ONeil gave Tichenor Co permission to ride ONeil in the race raceContinued Continued rain has interfered somewhat with the going at Montgomery Park for the last few days and on this account trainers have been delayed slightly but as most of their charges were suffi ¬ ciently well advanced the loss of a day or so will have no serious effect As it is all the horses in training there are in good condition and wondarful things are looked for from the horses who wintered at Memphis during the winter of 190102 190102This This year the hurdle race has been abandoned at Montgomery Park and there will be nothing but steeplechases in the way of jumping races The latter are very popular there and will be made a feature The Cotton Stakei with 1000 added will be a crosscountry race that will attract consider ¬ able attention The first betting on the local twoyearold stake for fillies occurred Tuesday M Van Praag a wealthy Now Yorker who has taken his family there to witness the running of the Ardelle Stakes in which Navasota recently purchased by Van Praag in New Orleans is to meet the best in Schorrs Vanderbilts and other strings bet book ¬ maker Johnny Fay 500 to 2500 that Navasota would win the race pay or play betting rules to govern Van Praag is enthusiastic over the chances of his filly in any company and has offered to match her for any amount the distance to bo named by the owner of the filly he matches with He will take Navasota direct to the New York tracks after the Memphis meeting She was re ¬ turned a fivetime winner in seven starts at Now Orleans and finished second once In her other start she unseated her rider and has shown remark ¬ able speed in all races
