view raw text
CAMDEN HANDICAP PROBABILITIES. Lexington. Ky.. April ]«. — Secretary William H. Shelleys adjustment of weights for the Camden Handicap aptwars 1o have general approval, and it is exp -cted that at least ten of the twenty-eight ellglbies will go to the post in tin- rai-e at one mile and an eighth May .". Waldo. Joe Morris. Eye White. Fighting Hob. Donau. Colinet. John Furlong. Sager. Bool* Binda. Kthel D.. Don Antonio. Markie M. and Xaimette or Fi-reno are lieiug figured as likely starters. I.. Harrison, in a letter to Kits Eastin. saiil that Waldo would 1m- shipped here from Louisville along with a couple of two-year-olds, and would run in the Camden. Since that letter was written jockey Vincent Powers has Is-en engaged to ride Waldo in the Camden and in the Kentucky Derby. Joe Morris has been working well at the laeal track and will go to the post if trainer Jack Jtaki r finds that Ik- is ready on the day of the race John Furlong has missed a couple id trials on account of rain and this may cause trainer Walter Grater to elect to await the Kentucky Derby as the race fur tin- debut of the Wadsworth gelding. There is a |MM sihility. t«M . that John Furlong will change hands. "Canada Jack" Atkin was here this week. insp«-eted the gelding, expressed a liking for him :atid requested a price from owner James C. Rogers. Atkin is acting for a Canadian gentleman, sup jMisedly It. J. Mackenzie. Colinet has. according to re|mrts from Idle Hour Farm, been working satis lactorily tor trainer Cliff Hammond. Jockey Dick Sc.cvillc arrived here this week from his lumie at Coffey villc. Kan., and is now exercising the Bradley •candidate. 1 too I a Itoola can be tahlicd as certain to carry the colors of Johnson N. Camden, though trainer Jack Kecne has no high opinion of tin- son •of Ben Brush. Kthel D. is going well for the colored trainer. June Collins, ami she is a lilly that is well ■worth remeuihering. Markie M.. from the stable of J. C. Milam, has not lived up to the ex|K tatioi;s of bis owner and trainer, but he is hopeful. UimmI re-j Mills come from Louisville concerning Eye White, Fighting Mi Dm Antonio. Monau. l-eretio and Nnn-lielte. The last liami d two are in W. J. Yomms string. Nannette has never ban to the «r*. Sin-is a daughter of the swift-footed Myrtle Harkness Mai is said to have inherited much of her mothers speed. file St. James Stable of en liorses. in charge of trainer L-w Marion, arrived last night from Jack txmville. At Chattanooga yesterday morning linear in which the horses had come up to that iMiint was run into on a siding and put out of commission. The nurses, including Grceu Seal. Wuulwiuder, Miss Sain. Hasty Agnes. Alfred the Cleat. Slafovcr. Grande I tame and Anderson, were transferred to another car. Ih Leech examined them on arrival lure, and found that Miss Sain bad a hadl.v damaged xboiilder. She was sent to the farm, while numbers went to the Kentucky AssiM-iatiou track. A ln:iv i :i nit all this morning left the Kentucky Ass M-i.itioti course muddy, but it did not stop the working of horses in preparation for the meeting which is to open inn weeks hence. The most impressive move was .i mile in 1 :52 by the Kentucky iH-iby candidate. John Furlong. William ;.i-t wired today for twelve stalls. Sager will be a starter in the Camden Handicap. Mvrtle Marion, a I wo war-old liav lillv bv Woolslhoi pe Jock-tpiec. . was sold todav b Irving 11. Wi.ealeroft Jo Mod. Nic.ll for . KI.
