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RANDOLPH STRING DESTINED FOR NORFOLK. Norfolk, v.i.. March : . p. s. P. Randolph, on-of the foremost sportsmen of the east, has made application from Aiken, s. c. for stalls al the Jamestown Jockey Clubs track Tor th.- spring meeting of 1912. ami h - will he accommodated. The Randolph colors a"- popular hereabouts, it a- u Norfolk that in- famous Idlng, Plate i;i:i-. tir-i dispiay.-d the form which enabled htm to beat the smartest handicap horses oa the Canadian circuit last summer. The Randolph ho.-ses are winterh : in South Carolina under the ears of yoaag Jake Byer, the jrouthfol trainer, who has handled Plate Glass so well Plate Glass, himself, is oae of the racert that will coase this araj in tin- coarse "t . couple oi weel s. Date uixss was :is aoand as a bell of bra-- when In- left here last rail and he baa , wintered splendidly. Trainer Byer predicts that he will race better this season than he did last year. Besom, a fast M of lieu Brush, which Mr. Ran dolph got several years ago from James R. Keaaat, has taken on weight since Beyer look him down t- South Carolina and bis feet and legs are in good condition. Racquet, easily the handsomest horse in the Randolph- stable, weighs marly 1,075 pounds and is going promisingly in gallops. Racajaei wai not right last fall. lb- had had a kmg lei up necessitated by an accident in Canada, which made him a tritle Ian:., and Byer could not get him down to weight. Bat he has galloped steadily since the first Of i.l, ruary and. according to advices from the south, he will be ready to run his best race in a couple of w i ks. Mr. Randolph owns a couple of likely looking two-year-oids which showed speed last fall when Byat broke them "it he does not yet know much of their form. Mr. Randolph has sp.-ut Iho better part of the winter at Alkea. and his horses an- training un.l r his personal supervision. A. G. Weston will bring two aaefal horses this way for Richard T. Wilson, the president of the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses, in Beaucoup and Mexoana, re spectively a son of Ornament and a daughter of the brilliant Mexican. Trainer Weston likely will handle Roaueoup and Mexoana nut il after the finish of the Iimlico meeting for Mr. Wilson. Thomas Healey is coming down from New York with a bunch of two aad three year-olds belonging to the president of the Saratoga Association. After the Baltimore meeting trainer Healey will take charge ef the entint Wilson lot and race them in Canada. Mr. Weston has several horses of his own to bring up lure from Charleston, and it is likely after be g.-ts here that his establishment may be strength-. a d by reeraita from the stable of Capt. William F. Presgrave.
