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l i i t i j , t j j i . , . CUMBERLAND PARK NOTES. i Nashville, Tenn., March 16. R. F. Meyers g has abandoned the idea of going to Wash- g ington to race. Mr. Meyers can not get his S useful string ready so early. i Enoch Wishard is going right along with g the Drake string. His older horses are be- 3 ing worked with regularity. Wishard is out 3 early every morning, and works his older horses in two sets. He will have his string in great shape by the time the Cumberland Park meeting opens. Witfull, winner of the Crescent City Derby, i may cut a figure up the line in the three- J year-old events. She will be at Memphis and will meet the cracks in the Montgomery Handicap and the Gaston Hotel Stakes. In 1 the Montgomery she is penalized five pounds for winning the Crescent City Derby. At Nashville she will meet all the cracks. Wit- full is engaged in the Cumberland Park j Derby along with Topsoil, Hildreths other derby candidate. j The Memphis books of the meeting are out ; and were in the hands of the Nashville train- ers today. Competent judges pronounce the book a first-class one, and predict for Memphis her banner meeting. The races are high class in every particular. The meeting will attract many people from Nashville to Memphis, especially on the opening day, when the Montgomery Handicap will be run, also on the day set for the running of the Tennessee Derby, Tuesday, April 7. The stable of Albert Franklin will leave this week for the Bluff City, where it will race during the meeting. George T. Hendrie, son of the millionaire turfman and street railway magnate, is in Nashville on a visit to Cumberland Park to look over the horses in training belonging to his father. W. H. Bissett, agent for the Drake stable, paid Nashville a visit last Thursday. The Tennessee Breeders Association has let contracts for painting the buildings on their property. The place will wear holiday attire on Derby day. Trainers will commence to reduce their stables this week after the youngsters have been tried out.
