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MUCH ACTIVITY AT NORFOLK - PROSPECTS PARTICULARLY PROMISING FOR COMING JAMESTOWN MEETING. riominerit Breeders of Virginia Play Prominent Part in Sidetracking of Legislation Aimed at Racing 1 Timely Gossip from Jamestown Course. J Norfolk, Va., March 23. Manager Bob Levy, of tin- Jamestown Jockey Club, on his return hero front a visit to the horsemen at Charleston, was much j gratified over the enthusiasm with which they view tlie forthcoming spring meeting at Norfolks seaside j course, which begins its lifteon-day session on April 1. to last until April 17. Hardly a stable of prominence which will race in the east and in Canada this summer hut will Ik represented here during the meeting, which promises even now to excell in every j branch of the sport any previous meeting in Vir- giuia. He found that the horsemen at Palmetto Park, who wi.I ship here upward of -100 thorough-breds ready tu race, have already made their plans ; for racing in the stellar events of the meeting. : which include liberal provision for the two-year-olds. 1 for older horses capable of going a route and for the best of the sprinting division. Secretary Joseph Mcl-eunnn. who distributed the book among the Ialmetto Iark horsemen, received many compliments from them over the equitable way in which it was ; conditioned.. I With the arrival of the ihiee big special trains -of : thoroughbreds from Palmetto Park at the concusinn : of 1 lie Charleston meeting next Saturday, every- J thing will be in readiness for the bugle to call the lield to the post fur the inaugrual race the Hopeful Purse, for maiden two-year-olds. Already unusual activity, even for a spring training .season, is noted at the course of the Jamestown Jockey Club. Among the forerunners of the big delegation soon to arrive is Green I!. .Morris, rightly regarded as the nestor of the American turf. He brought with him tin- good winning liily, Kiva, by .Senipronius Scvilla. a Bashford Manor-bred sprinter, and a two-year-old , coll which many believe is one of the best prospects of the year. He is a bay son of Waterboy and Irish Song, bought from James 1!. Haggin. Kiva. Mr. Morris believes, will find the hard uuderfooting at the local track much more to her liking than the soft Iailiietto Park going. One fact that pleased Manager Levy greatly was the utter disregard by the horsemen at Ialmetto Iark of rumors that there would be obstacles in the wiy of carrying out the plans of tile Jamestown Jockey Clubs management. These rumors, while practically ceasing with last weeks adjournment of the Virginia General Assembly, emanated from persons who were at cross-purposes with the interests of the sport here, and found little credence at any lime. The recent- adjournment of the Virginia Legislature, leaving untouched and unpassed the pro-k sod anti-racing bill, which had been side-tracked by tlie conservative"-element in the Senate, leaves tlie breeding interests in the Old Dominion in safer shape than ever before, and insure the Jamestown Jockey Club management the freedom from interference in the conduct of its race meetings for at least two years. While the Jamestown Jockey Club itself took no part in tiie tight made against the measure, it is understood that Captain A. It. Hancock, C. K. G. Bill Ligs. Henry T. Oxnard. Thomas Fortune Ryan and -ther men of wealth who have invested large sums in thoroughbred breeding interests, were successful in combating the measure. It is likely that race-goers at tlie spring meeting here will have a chance to see Mission, August Itelmouts great daughter of Rock Sand and Misgivings, perforin over the jumps for the first time. Throughout the winter months at Bowling, trainc-Sam Hildreth has been schooling this mare, and she wiil have an opportunity to show her prowess in at least two of the events for steeplechasers here. The first will come- in the Virginia hurdle handicap, when four-year-olds and over will go the intermediate course of about a mile and three-quarters on the grass, under equitable weight conditions. This race will be one of the features of what many regard as Ihe "big day of the meeting, Saturday, April 4. In addition to this race, then? will lie run the Monticcllo Hotel Handicap, one mile, for three-year-olds and over, and the Richmond Selling Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, three-quarters of a mile. The latter will lie a SI, -00 top and bottom race, and is likely t attract an excellent lield. Tin two-year-olds which trainer Hildreth is pointing for Spring racing are a well-bred and impressive looking lot. They will be shipped here within a few davs and Include among others, the following: Pcimvrock, b. e, by Rock Sand Poeketpiece; Half Itock", eh. e. by Rock Sand Half Sovereign: Fen-ruck, br. c, by Kock Sand Ferment: Woodfair, eh. . bv Fair Iiay Woodvine; Norse King, b. c. by l air Play Nineveh; Itock of Gold. br. f. by Itock Sand -Golden View sister to Kock View, and ; others. .Supplementing this choice band, trainer Albert Simons has the Whitney youngsters in prime condition here, and when these royally-bred representatives of the Brookdale and Nursery Studs clash with the best of the Palmetto Park youngsters, the two-year-old contests will be well worth 1 seeing. Two stables which will lie seen in action for the lirst time at the Jamestown meeting will arouse ! interest, on the one hand, among the old-timers, and on the other among those interested in the ! development of the turf in foreign parts. They ; j? re the strings of W. II. Bradley, of Virginia, and 1 Ldunrdo Cautiuo, of Porto Itico. Mr. Bradley has 5 written Manager Levy requesting stall reservations ; for live maidens. One of those is a tive-year-old, . one a three-year-old, and the others two-year-olds. Interest of the horsemen in the showing of these ! individuals promises to bo keen, and it is significant - that Mr. Bradley, who inherited the farm and horses i of "Pa" Bradley, has decided to re-enter actively the sport of racing as an owner and breeder. Old-timers remember well Robert Waddell, Honey Boy. Ld Earl v. Ahola and other speedy horses which their veteran "breeder raced up to the day of his death. During the last two years only one performer - Blltzcn Jr. has been at the races as a representative of the liradley farm, but two of the produce if his dam. Eminence, which produced Ed Early, , are Included In the liradley stable. Seuor Cautino is the leading turfman of Porto Rico, and this will be bis lirst campaign on the : tracks of the United States. The star of his stable i is Aguila The Eagle, a brother to Gardenia, by Oriiameni Star Dreamer. Aguila is the best horse F. in Porto Rico, aud recently won the Washington i Hiirtilicap, one mile and an eighth, from Tick Tack : aud Old Honesty, both former American campaigners. He carried 115 pounds aud conceded much i weight, to mature opposition. Francis J. Pons, Florida turfman and builder of f Palmetto Park, has revised Ills shipping plans and 1 will divide his stable at the end of the Palmetto J Park meeting. His older horses, including John l Furlong, will be sent here in charge of trainer r John Powers, while the rest of the Pons horses s will be sent to Douglas Pari: in charge of trainer r Wlllinm 11. Salloe. Trainer James Howe of the Whitney stable, Is s among the latest arrivals. He came Sunday to - Continued on third page. MUCH ACTIVITY AT NORFOLK. Continued from first page. look over onco more the Whitney two-year-olds 1 which Albert Simons has here, and declared himself as highly pleased with the lot. Tlie list of the officials for the meeting under Manager Bob Levy is the same as last fall, with the exception of the department of advance information, which this spring will be iu charge of Charles Fink of Washington. The same equitable conditions governing the conduct of this department will exist under .Mr. Finks direction as heretofore. Mr. Fink, who has established headquarters in the Monticello Hotel, lias received sufficient assurances that the ring this spring will be stronger than ever before, not even excepting the banner meeting of last fall. Layers already here awaiting the opening of the meeting include Steve LHonnne-dieu and Paul Matthews. Horsemen here who have a good line on the two-year-olds which have come to hand early are talking about two cracks at Palmetto Park which will not start there, but which will be seen in action here early in the meeting, probably in the Hopeful Purse. They are Green B. Morris colt by Waterboy Irish Song, a royally-bred aud highly-tried one. and Frank J. Grefers Jefferson, a big brown colt by Con-testor Fads and Fancies, the lain of Tritler. Jefferson is the biggest two-year-old at Charleston and is reputed to be the biggest colt of the year. He was growthy and rank in the early part of the Palmetto Park meeting, but lately has become niar-vclously muscled and has been highly tried in private. Mr. Grefer, who will also campaign the good filly Floral Park and the handicap horse Harry Lauder at Jamestown, has refused to set a price on Jefferson, and owner Morris likewise values his Waterboy colt above money. No less a judge of a horse than the veteran W. P. Burch, steward at Palmetto Park, has pronounced these two youngsters the best-looking ones he has seen in several years. There is now renewed activity at the seaside course of the Jamestown Jockey Club this week, as the temporary cold snap, which set back training operations, has been broken for good, and springlike weather has set in. Messrs. George T. and Fred Miller, who have been at the course all winter, have everything: in spick and span condition. Thus the horses that have been racing so hard iu the south will clash with a fresh, yet ready, lot here. Many horses of the better class, with a preference for a hard course, have been out of action at Palmetto Park, and these will undoubtedly win their share of races at Jamestown this spring. One feature of the spring meeting which has al-wavs proved immensely liopular with the hound-riding contingent of Virginia turfmen, who constitute a big percentage of the attendance from Charlottesville. Ellerslie and other hunting communities, is the jumping races. Jamestowns steeplechase course lacks a water jump, and therefore is a hurdle course within the strict ruling of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, whose steward, Henrv J. Morris, will be iu the stand here. Racing Secretary Mr. McLennan has included in the program" book several races for the jumpers, and the first of these will be the Springtime hurdle handicap, over the short course of about a mile and a half on the turf. The Jamestown course is a safe one and .there is no doubt that the attendance will be larger than ordinary on the days when jumping races are carded. From Charleston, where the Palmetto Park meeting of 100 davs is rapidly approaching its close, news conies that the thirty-six carloads or thoroughbreds oiiginallv expected, will arrive here promptly at the conclusion of the meeting, by three special trains. The big movement, one of the most pretentious in recent years from one track to another, will run on special schedule, only necessary stops being made, and the arrival at the Jamestown course will be at convenient times for expeditious unloading and transfer of the horses to their allot ed stables. Following is the complete list ir car reservations bv the Palmetto Park delegation: "Archie Zinimer, one car; Wayne Joplm, one car; Edward McRride. one car: Jack Phillips, one car; W. A. Burttscholl, one car: F. E. Baird and li. V. Haymaker, one car; Frank E. Brown, one car: N. R. Davis, A. E. Hamel and A. House, one car; Thomas J. Brown, one car; William Walker, two cars: J. W. Hedrick. two cars; J. II. McCarren, one car; M. C. Kelley and J. U. Strode, one car: P. Gallagher and K. Patterson, one car; N. K. Real. Frank Herold and Green B. Morris, one car; J. E. Nash and A. B. Davidson, one car; M. J. Daly. G. P. Sherman, W. E. Burke and F. Hart, one car; Frank Bray, A. J. Blakelev and Jotm O. Burttschell, one car: W. C. Weant, J. J. MeCauIey, E. Minter and P. Gloss, one car; Hugh Penny. J. W. Pangle and W. C. Westmoreland, one cart B. C. Evans and B. Campbell, one car; F. J. Grefer and L. Weiss, one car; W. C. Daly, Miss A. M. Marrone and K. Musante. one car, and other owners as follows: W. C. Wise. Thomas Check. David A. Broiller. C. J. Casev. A. F. Dayton, J. O. Holder. G. R. Brysou, D. Hammond. J. G. Wagnon. C. Reed, L. Most. G. E. Ridge, William Cahill. M. Gallagher. P. Jones, E. B. Parsons. Fred Foster. Chris .Martin. P. L. Short. F. Harrington. R. Lester. F. W. Ashe, C. DeWitt. E. R. Steele. J. Harrison. M. C. Eaton, W. P. Fine. Dr. J. W. Messervy, Thil Ilyams. A. P. Doyle. O. Bagley, J. McCarthy, S. R. Howser and J. McPhersou.
