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GOOD KACING AT HAND With the curtain raiser at Little Rock disposed of the stage of western racing is cleared for the more impressive action that will follow at Mem ¬ phis Little Rock disclosed what may prove to be a good twoyearold in G C Bennetts Mallory and also served to show that Wax Taper is likely to run up to his undeniably fine form of last year yearThe The Memphis meeting is always important and marked by high class racing and exceedingly good management It always serves to introduce two yearolds that subsequently play important parts in the racing of their year and the meeting now at hand will probably bo up to the standard in that interesting particular Reports are rifo concern ¬ ing the excellence of youngsters in the stables of G C Bennett J W Schorr P Dunne T C Mc ¬ Dowell and other owners and it is quite possible that the Gaston Hotel Stakes next Wednesday will be themeans of bringing out one or more colts of the Abe Frank type Last year it fell to Schorrs CharlesJW Meyer with Brannigan second and Abe Frank fourth Subsequent racing showed the lat ¬ ter to be much the best race horse horseThelmeeting Thelmeeting opens tomorrow with a well filled card of six races with the best Now Orleans per formerslcouspicuous and likely to prove winners of their fair share of the days contests The Mont ¬ gomery Handicap is naturally the center of interest and the fact that sixteen horses have been named to start shows that an unusual number of owners cherish high hopes of landing the rich prize Two such high class horses as Waring and Wax Taper as starters servo to invest the contest with an unusual measurejof importance and their respective per ¬ formances with 124 pounds up will bo carefully con sideredby all admirers of the thoroughbred From present indications the Montgomery of this year will be well worth a journey to witness
