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i i 1 ; ■ j . | [ I , ■ , I I . i I 1 i i HORSES POURING INTO NORFOLK. Best of Eastern Stables Gathering at Jamestown Jockey CluVs Course. Norfolk. V.i. March 28.— The big stables of the . us! are beginning to report at Norfolk with tlseir Attest hoi-es. to take pari in the spring meeting of the Jamestown Jockey Club. The meeting will be gin next Tuesday. April 1. and continue through l the 17th. lifteeii racing days iii all. and it bids rati to lie tlie licst in the history of the spoil her*-auoata. As is the custom at N-.tlolk. the opening day will he ladies day. The management will he ili-.i.i pointed if the fair -ex fail to turn oat in hi;: fori ■ A handsome pictorial souvenir will he distributed among them instead of tin- old fashioned silk pr gram. I"he biggest delegation In in Dentiii* so far is the -table of William Garth. It nuinlieied seventeen horse- all told, and Lewis iarth i- in charge. The -table consists of horses of all ai-es and grades, a. id Mr. Garth expects to start in wtaniag right away liccau-e he and hi- father have been busy at the ol I Washington Jockey Clnb course for upward of a month. The int n-t in the juvenile end of the Garth entih li-hineiit i- keen. No man in the count rj is liau ill lug as mam smart youngsters this season as th-Li;: hoi -email of A lln-niai ]•• he and Ual fan. a prominent roung business and society man of Haiti ne -re. having purchased last fall the entire yearling output of the famous Bllersiie Stud in Alhemaih Couulv. which has been practically dispersed since ile deatii of Us founder, apt. It. -t. Hancock. After Harry Payue Whitney, owner of the Brook dale Stud in New Jersey. Colonel Parr is tbe blggesl iiominaioi in the Juvenile, the Jamestown locket riui.s 1,000 special for baby racers, which will be decided a week from Saturday. Colonel Cans entries an Ive in number: The Idol, a bay gelding by Ubalner lanna: The I rcldn. a clu-stnut gelding by Fatherless Kliaa RnsseU: Robert Oliver, a chestuut gelding by Pstberles" Duiuotitiue; Wauita. a ehestmit gehllug l».i Path:i les- Watita. and Mater, a hav till by Iatherle — Watita. Tin- lrchiii is a well setup colt of be lainilv ol Morello. the best horse Virginia ever sent to lie races, and the others belong to winning slock. In addition lo these youngsters. Lewis Garth has a Lsrttl Esterllng tillv in Ibe race, called I.snlv Ester liiu; thai is a halt -istei to tint good jneo mare of a few season- ago, I.ady Esther. Garth said that hi- youngsters an- ready and thil in- would bave ono or two starters in the Juvenile The Garths always spring a g I Inro-year-obl or " down here. Rlngllng and Captain Elliott, wbicli afterwaids won at man: other Hacks, made their dehiit at Norfolk in April. I»12. Captain Elliott, a trimly made sou of Hermis and Estimate, i- com! ns hack ill the stable of Siinuel Koss of WasbillgtOU. and he is regarded a- sure to win over a consider aide distance of ground, Willie Alhn. tin- most snrccseful steeplechase jockey in the country for a couple of seasons, came on with Lewis Garth to ride the lunioer- ..r the stable, of which there are mam. Allen is in tine form, lb has been galloping aud schooling chasers eve-.- since the Garth horses went up from Charlottes Vllle. when- tbej ■wintered, to Benttlug. Lewis earth predicts licit tin- Beuuing horses will hold their own .11 alone he line. The Benuiiig colony, Ike young trainer avers, have done a- much as Hie horses down here He soiaks especially well of the Helinuit youngsters. Two arrivals from Charleston were John McPber--,,n and K. I. i a: roil. McPberson brought Bine Mouse, a mare developed by Willie Martin, and the winner at Charleston of her la-l two races, and Agues M.r-. a sprinter. The best of the Carroll .-s-. tabiisbment i- the little Banaockborn tillv. Queen Dee. tbe winner ••! several straight ra«-e* last siiriug. Queen Bee was not a- lucky at Charleston duriug the meeting which will finish on Saturday as -he wa- a vear hack, but ids i- in tiptop condition. Joe i , .,,. r tin- man who had Queen Bee la-t spring;, i-l coming hen- with tin- -pi inter- Jessup Ban and Men Ami. Dr. Ask*, who i nine in earlier in the week with old Hoffman, say- thai that s.,,, ,.i Isidor ami Irrou grass is at his heat and will surely start in the Norfolk Setllas stak.s next Tuesday. Jim Arthur. :n old-time horseman, Is trainrng Hoffman this sriiuu. also Gold Cap and Color- for Edward Mi-« Bride. McBride says that J. Wilson will do bis riding this year, lie came up with Arthur Secretary Joseph Mcljeunan. who has began bis task id ready iic- I hints for the opening, has altered the conditions of the la-t race for the opening day io the exteii oi reducing tin- distance from one mile and a sixteenth to one mile, to Ibe end thai the burses bare may have a better, chance with the mere seasoned campaigners from tin- south and aoutk west Charlie Grand, the regular rider of the stable ol II. 1 Bedwell, which will come in from Charleston on Monday, ha- alreadj begun his tn-k ,,f reducing. Grand weighs In the neighborhood of lo |M unda now. but he will ride Spobn at 103 next Tuesday in Norfolk Selling Stakes. There "ill be many arrival- of horses and owners from Charleston durfctg the next day or two.
