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MARTIN STABLE RESTING AT NORFOLK, Norfolk, Va.. October 2!. Former jockey William Martin, lias arrived at the Jamestown track with his entire stable, numbering 12 head. Five of them are Canadian-bred two-year-olds., Of the older horses, live will be raced throughout tlie approaching lif-teen-days autumn meeting of the Jamestown Jockey Club, beginning on Thursday, November 13, with the Merchants Selling Stakes as the feature. The Martin racers, despite an arduous campaign in Canada and Maryland, are nearly all in good condition, but as Martin lias selected the Jamestown track, with its mild w;eatl:er conditions, as ids permanent wintering grounds, he decided to rest while the Pimlico meeting- is going on. He is located in the same barn that he occupied last winter. Martins speedy chestnut gelding. Rye Straw, which showed over the Jamestown course to advantage last spring, is eligible for the inaugural feature, the Merchants Selling Stakes, three-quarters of a mile. Rye Straw has only recently recovered from a slight indisposition. For tlie two major features of the stake program, the Monticello Hotel Handicap, to be run on Saturday, November 22. and the Thanksgiving Selling Handicap, Martin has named three of his best horses in The Rump, Cogs and Kayderoseros. The Riunp was a frequent winner on the Canadian rVcuit. Though he stiil has a sour disposition, he is good right now and is likely to figure prominently in Jamestown racing. Cogs was also sick at Laurel, his temperature being lOli at one time, but he, too, has recovered. Kayderoseros is rounding to his best form, and may be a starter in one of these two stakes, but the other two have shown better than be. It is Martins intention later on to put Kayderoseros in the stud. Jockey Richard AVatts, the Martin stable apprentice rider, remained at Laurel to ride out the meeting, but will join the string here next veek. One of Martins ideas to freshen up his horses is to give them salt water baths daily. Thus the ordinary stable routine of this Canadian trainer is being varied somewhat during the present week and, the thoroughbreds, apparently enjoying their plunge to the utmost, are driven into the water on the beach adjacent to the" Jamestown track twice daily before their rub down. Ills two-year-olds, five in number, are Our Ma-belle. Diamond Cluster, Howard Legov, Sykesie and Cobourg Belle. Our Mabelle is a half-sister to Pandorina. winner of this years Kentucky Endurance Stakes and Martin may point her for that event next season. Mediator, in the Martin string, is a likely-looking prospect for winter racing, after having had ill-luck and being out of good condition during most of the summer. This horse will in all probability be sent to Charleston to campaign this winter, along with one or two of the two-year-olds of the stable. Martin has no yearlings this year. He is on the market for another two-year-old. or so. and he will be a purchaser of some of Mrs. Livingstons two-year-olds next year. These youngsters are now being developed at her farm in Jobstown. N. J., by trainer Matt Feakes and his assistants. Mrs. Livingston herself expects to be a daily attendant at the Jamestown races.
