view raw text
READY FOR MEMPHIS OPENING Much rain has interfered somewhat with the working of horses at Memphis lately and on this account trainers have been retarded in giving their charges as much preparing as they should have been given at this time of the year especially with only a few days before the meeting begins staring them in the face Many of the workouts at that have been satisfactory and by the time the post call is blasted upon the crisp air of spring March 31 the local talent at Memphis will pretty near know what each candidate is about capable of doing The Tennessee talent comes near being cog ¬ nizant of whats what in the racing line especially at Memphis where the three weeks run of the sport is regarded as one huge gala day dayFor For the gallopers last Wednesday it was a case of mud or nothing Such a rain as fell from midnight to noon would have been a Godsend to a drought stricken country in June time The track at 1 oclock was a veritable river at 2 it was a sea of mud and at 3 it was heavy at 4 the harrows were at work and at 6 it was almost dry dryThe The best work of the day was a mile in 145 flat by the handicap candidate Walkenehaw He car ¬ ried 122 pounds and did the distance impressively Hiram Pierce is training him and has a ticket on him at 15000 to 150 When asked about the horses chance in the handicap ho said he never had an animal to do better for him and that Walkenshaw stood a good chance to win if the track was heavy next Monday MondayHe He took this horse over to Little Rock with the expectation of starting him in a selling race on the first day of the meeting but he showed that morn ingthat he was too good for that company and was consequently scratched and shipped back to Mem ¬ phis on the next train trainSilurian Silurian the fouryearold bay son of Belvidere Virgie D from P Dunnes stable worked an im ¬ pressive mile in the downpour and through the mud He covered the route in 1 454 It would be hard to determine what weight he had up The boy seemed no heavier than ninety pounds but there appeared to be a lead pad under the saddle cloth His impost next Monday is but 100 pounds Miracle IL which is expected to carry the Tiche rior colors was not worked Neither was Barouche JheMcCorkle candidate in Mahones stable Fly ¬ I ing Torpedo brouglitr o 3 to MeViphis froavGnJU fornia by Louis Ezell was out for a gallop He is looking good and around his barn there is much 1 confidence in his ability to put it over the plate plateThe The favorite Waring from S C Hildreths barn negotiated a mile and an eighth in 2 05 1 the mile in 1 46 with about 128 pounds up Hildreth says that he has not decided positively what else from his barn will go in the big event Federal and The Lady are both going well and it may bo one or the other of these Whether he will s art a companion to Waring will depend somewhat on a rider Nitrate is being prepared for his race at New Orleans and will not be shipped to Memphis until Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning Simons says he has a royal chance and his friends are back ¬ ing his opinion opinionTC TC McDowell attempted no fast moves with any of his lot AllanaDale led the string in the gallop The sore on his back is healing and he is going freely Abe Frank was sent a mile in 150 and Caviar from the Tichenor barn did the same dis ¬ tance in 147 147Joe Joe Ullman and his crew have arrived from Hot Springs and opened headquarters for the future book on the Montgomery Handicap and the winter book on the American Derby and eastern events in Luehrmanns Hotel The city is rapidly filling up and bed space in the hotels is already at a premium The largest crowd that has attended any meeting is expected Among the bookmakers who have al ¬ ready arrived are Hops and Harry Laudeman from Lexington Ky Harry Wehmhoff and Willie Applegate from Louisville and James Duckworth of Cincinnati
