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EASTERN SEASON BEGINS HORFOLK MEETING OPENS UNDER CONDITIONS THAT AKE HIGHLY PLEASING PLEASINGAttendance Attendance Estimated at Five Thousand and Verdict VerdictIs Is That It Was Best Opening in the History Historyof of the Jamestown Jockey Club Norfolk Va April S Racing on the eastern cir cult for the season of 1012 was Iwgiiu today with tin opening of the spring meeting of the Jamestown Jockey Club at the Norfolk track The opening took place under auspicious conditions a crowd estimated it oOOO being present to start the sport off with a boom To lend eclat to the occasion Manager Bub Levy made It ladies day and the grandstand and Iwxcs were crowded with representatives of Nor folks most exclusive set It was a grand opening itud certainly the best since the establishment of the course There were many late arrivals from New York this morning and a majority of them were witnessing racing for the first time since last fall fallThirteen Thirteen layers were in line and speculation was exceedingly brisk There was a healthy atmosphere Jo the racing and it reminded one of the early meet ings on the southern circuit when Memphis and Nashville were important racing ixjints Everything pasted off without a hitch and predictions wctv lively made that the meeting would exceed in point if importance any before given here hereThe The racing was spirited with a majority of the finishes close enough to be interesting Despite rain which fell last night the track was in good condi ¬ tion The opening race which was for twoyear olds found a majority of the starters making their first effort It was a well matched field and the finish found four of the ten fighting it out heads apart with Robert Davles Spring Maid first by tin smallest of margins over Harry Payne Whitneys Floral Park ISnrgeois the favorite closed a big gap after getting a bad start and finished third only a head away awayTwo Two of W 1 Austins horses Miudincttc and Judge Monck were taken sick after being unloaded but trainer Hugh Ieuuy reports that they are im ¬ proving provingColonel Colonel Holioway and Bard of Hope which were left over at Charleston by their owners to start in Urn Palmetto Derby will leave that track for Nor ¬ folk tonight Several owners have wired from Charleston asking for stable room and they will come with their horses within the next few days Secretary daysSecretary Joseph McLennan has received the stake blanks for the Windsor spring meeting and dis ¬ tributed them among the horsemen lie also ro teivcd news that the license fee for trainers in Can ¬ ada this season has Iwen reduced to 20 20Capt Capt I M Walker was anxious to have jockoy Joe Byrne ride his horses today and wired K C Smith the Jockey Club steward at Charleston seek ¬ ing to have the suspension against the lad lifted Charles T Patterson trainer for Kobert Davics alsr wired starter Dade asking him to permit jockey 13 Marl in to ride for him here There are few riders hero and It is thought that both boys will be re ¬ stored to good standing standingA A list of the layers in line this afternoon were Al Ilanf John Lewis I Howard Steve Lllomme dieu Ed Colell J Cahill Lee Wagner Sidney Cohen I Hammerslag Joe Bluuie Frank Tvler Charles Walters anil George Zeller John Mellinger Ted Cobuni and William Beverley announced that Ihry WednesdayThe would cut in tomorrow or Wednesday The big South Carolina special arrived from Charleston yesterday morning and brought a horde if racegoers 2 5 making the trip Trains and boats from New York also brought big delegations and the indications are that the meeting will exceed in point of importance any ever given at the Nor ¬ folk track There are quite a few here who came direct from Juarez and also a great many that did not participate in the sport during the winter months monthsFor For a lime it looked as if there would be a shortage of horses owing to the conflict with the Charleston meeting but fortunately for the club many applications poured in during the past few days from unexpected quarters and all of the stable room is now spoken for Another special will leave Charleston at once and several more stables are due from Washington and the winter quarters of different establishments in Virginia Superintendent Miller reports 350 horses now on the ground which Is enough for a short meeting even if n j others arrive arriveOn On the special from the south yesterday came several Itookmakers who laid odds at Charleston and jockeys Butwell E Martin Chert Skirvin Joe Byrne Forsythe Hanover and Conncrs being among the number Joe McCahey who is under contract to Thomas Fortune Kyan for this season came here with thi Fitzsimtnons stable stableMaromara Maromara was sold at sheriffs sale in Charleston en Saturday to satisfy a claim of U Barrett She was knocked down to H G Bed well for 700 700A A Simons acting for Harry Payne Whitnev has wild the following twoyearolds to John W Schorr of Memphis Bay gelding by Hamburg Braw Lass bay filly by Burgomaster Xela liay gelding by licit Brush Incarnadine and bay gelding hv Broom ¬ stick I ayonara Trainor Simons will handle the lot for Mr Schorr until the Toronto spring meeting at Woodbine where they will he turned over to John 1 Schorr The string that Lewis Garth brought here from Bciining is miscellaneously owned Two of the twentyodd horses comprising it belong to David Dunlop of Petersburg one to Samuel Uoss of Wash ¬ ington two to C C Smithson of Washington two to C Cil il A 1 Parr of Clarksburg W V three to Arthur Hancock the master of Kllcrslic the oldest and must famous of Virginian thoroughbred nurse ¬ ries two to Frank J Nolan of Albany one to the young trainer himself and half a dozen to William Garth The latter has thirtyseven horses at Ben ning many of them highly tried twoyearolds Toward the end of the Norfolk meeting lie will ship one or two of these youngsters to his son to try for the Jamestown Jockev Club purses Mr K JSS representative in the string is Captain Elliott a twoyearold son of Hermis and Estimate that Mr Garth bought last fall from Anthony L Aste of New York his breeder Mr Hancocks horses arc the twoyerrolds Exton and Kingling bv Fatherless and Boss by Glorllier Kingling is a brother to the jumper Ringmaster shown here last fall and Boss will IK the first of the get of Glorilier to race Colonel raceColonel Parrs campaigners are the jumpers St Aln and Trudo Mr Smithsons horses are the fotr ycarild sprinter Sherwood aind Chrvsels In tin string of tils elder Garth under the management of the young man are Joe Madden High Hat Wood ¬ craft and Kcyboum KcyboumJockey Jockey Schuttingcr canto on with young Mr Garth to ride on the tlat and W Allen will pilot the stjeplcchasers of the string Fred Williams win was with the Garths last season has gone to Eurotw to ride for Charles Kohler KohlerDiamond Diamond Jim Brady is an inmate of n Haiti more hospital whore he successfully underwent a sirlous o ralioa last week weekSuperintendent Superintendent Miller has the course In exception ¬ ally good condition this season and It is likely that there will In some reducing of track records before the meeting is over
