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JAMESTOWN OUTLOOK IS EXCELLENT. Stalls at Virginia Track in Great Demand for Spring Meeting Scheduled to Begin April 1. Norfolk, Va., March 11. With brighter prospects thau ever for a successful spring meeting, the Jamestown Jockey Clubs track is being put in readiness for the opening of the meeting April 1. There will Ix- sixteen racing days, the dates being from April 1 to 17. The ollicials will be: Frank lirvan and Joseph A. Murphy, stewards; Ed Cole anil V. W. Gerhardy, judges: Mars Cassidy, starter; Joseph McLennan, secretary: II. P. Conkliug, clerk .f tlie scales, and Harry White, paddock judge. There will lie six races each day and no purse will be of less value than 00. With tlie meeting still several weeks off, there are over 100 horses already at the track. The course has been put in splendid condition and superintendent Miller says it will be better than ever this year. A number of improvements have been made", including a liberal use of white wash on the stables. Ilarrv Payne Whitney will have :i string of fifteen thoroughbreds here for the meeting in charge of Albert .Simons, including Nightstick, which lias alreadv shown his heels to many a fast horse in this country. Several of the Whitney horses that have been racing in England will make their lirst appearance here this spring. Willie Martin will have fifteen horses here; A. G. Weston will have eight: W. V. Conrau six, and Hugh Penny four. 11. T. Wilson will send his entire- stable, which probablv will be the largest here. The Bevorwyck Stable, with Kiugliug. winner of several big stakes at Charleston, and others, will try for the Jamestown purses. N. P.. Davis will ship nine horses here. F. J. G refer will send live and James Johnston, who is now racing at Juarez, will come this way with seven. .1. W. Iledrick will ship eight horses here from Charleston, where he has been unusually successful. Bob Levy, manager of tlie Jamestown track, is receiving numerous applications for stable roon from horsemen in all sections of the country. Robert MeKeevor of Brooklyn, wants to ship three horses here, while G. E. Enson and Thomas Kodrock or Washington, will also come this way with the best in their stables. Manager Lew expects there will lie about 000 horses at the Jamestown track when the meeting .pens.
