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HORSE TALK FROM EMERYVILLE. Will W. B. Jennings Ruby be as good a mare here this winter as she was at Seattle during the summer? Is a question which is being discussed with marked Interest by the horsemen at Emeryville, where the mare is being "propped" for opening day. There seems to be a decided difference of opinion on the subject. Ruby was one of the most consistent performers at Seattle, winning race after race, and some of the trainers who have been watching her work incline to the opinion that she will continue her good record when the local meeting opens. Others are disposed to take a different view and profess to already see a difference in Rubys appearance. They think that she took kindly to northern climatic conditions and that she is naturally a better mare in warm weather than in the winter season. Her performances are therefore awaited with no small degree of Interest, says a San Francisco newspaper. Tocolaw, which ran so consistently here last season, is being sent along again over the local course by Jasper Madison, who made an unsuccessful campaign with the horse on middle-west tracks during the summer. Trainer Madison says that he could not get Tocolaw good in the east and that after several Ineffectual attempts to win some races he .Continued on second page.. I HORSE TALK FROM EMERYVILLE. Continued from first page. gave the horse a long rest in the hope that he would regain the form that made him so. popular with local race-goers last winter. When the horse put In an appearance, on the local track a few days ago the trainers passed Judgment on him as looking ralrly well. Tom Stevens expects Ramus, winner of the Seattle Derby, to give a good account of himself this winter. After his stake victory he was punch fired in front and has come out of the operation finely. He appears to be a stouter horse than when at .Seattle. Watchful has been punch fired for bad knees, lie is getting slow work but still goes a little dickey! Tommy Davies is working old Possart to a road cart. The old plater outworked Eleven Bells the other day but pulled up pretty sore. Billy Fine has taken over a couple of two-year-olds from the Jennings barn. -A- big chestnut by Kinley Mack appears to be the making of a good horse and has a taking way of going. Walter Jennings refused ,000 for Ruby the other day. He declined to price her, although less than that amount would have purchased her before Bhe went to Seattle. Harry Greens 6tring of. four is quartered near the. half-mile post Major Tenny is the bright particular star of the outfit. Ocyrbhe is looking pretty-well just now and. his legs are In better shape than they have been for a long time. Tills Is a pretty fair kind of a horse. He. wj.ll be heard from .when the. rainy weather sets In. Ed Sfieridan has gotten over his lameness and is In nctlve training again. The Spokane merry-go-round course came near putting him out of business.
