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■ 1 1 1 1 1 » i - 1 I • I ■ • i II LI " I • " 9 I J 5 5 BANK COMING TO KENTUCKY SHOWS A REMARKABLE ORDER OF SPEED IN A TRIAL AT FIVE-EIGHTHS. Lew Marion Well Paid for Jockey Pools Release — Various Owners After the Services of the Crack Apprentice C. Hunt. El Paso. Tex.. February 5. — I. E. Clark, the Texas turfman, has ordered his trainer. B. N. Vestal, to ship his stable to Kentucky in the spring when the present meeting ends next April. Mr. Clark has two real good horses to ship to Kentucky for a campaign in the four-year-old gelding Lakeaaae, and the three-year-old colt Bank. The latter is by Mint, a son of Rock Sand — Miss Blair, dam of t ln-speedy Joe Blair. Bank seems to possess all the dazzling speed of his close relative, with the apparent ability of beiug able to cover a greater distance of ground and all Bad judges are ot the opinion that he will make good when he races SB Kentucky soil. Recently he showed the most remarkable workout ever recorded by a horse here. Even such sprintc.s as Iron Mask and Pau Zareta never showed at their best as wonderful a performance. Beginning none too fast he ran the first eighth in :11, the quarter in :22, the three-eighths in :33, the half iu :40 and finished out the live-eighths in :."S. ID came out of this work and won his next start in runaway style, thus showing that he is a colt that is true in his racing. After his trial and win several turfmen made big bids for him. but to all trainer Vestal gave the same answer, not for sale. II is now probable that Mr. Clark would not even consider an offer of ,000 for the half-brother to Joe Blair. Lew Marion, the owner and trainer of that good horse Priuce Hermis, writes here from Churchill Downs, Louisville, where his string of horses are wintering, that the racers now quartered there all looking and doing well and the outlook for the best racing ever seen there sums up the present prospects in Kentucky this year. Marion has parted with the contract he held on jockey E. Pool, who rode here for R. L. Cranio early this winter, selling the papers to George Ful-i ler of San Francisco, at a reported price of ,000. Fuller, it is said, intends to purchase a string of horses to take to Kentucky to race this year. He recently wired here for a price on Egmont and Wil- hlte. The deal for tJ.e former is presumed to be still pending, but Kay Spence. the present owner of Wilhite reported back to Fuller, the frequently used expression nowadays, "not for sale." Spence receives an average of three or four letters each week asking for his figures on the contract he holds on the crack apprentice rider C. Hunt. He gives all such applications the filing process, as be has no intention of giving up the little jockey who has developed in his care into one of the best pro-- pects in this line of recent years. With Hodge and other horses Spence now has here and turned out in Kentucky, he will have a string of fully fifteen head to race in that state and. under such circuni- stances, has need of a rider of his own of merit. This he has in Hunt, as the jockey can ride auay under 100 pounds and. moreover, has learned the advantage of riding a waiting race with his mounts F. I. Weip has so far won with four of the -i-c two-year-olds he shipped here from Kentucky last fall, his juvenile winners to date embracing Mn.v W.. Bessanta. Ida Trovato and Hondo. The Hue, colt is regarded as the best in the stable. Tin- youngster is a black in color with gray or roan ball -" through his coat aud will no doubt make good on the Kentucky tracks the coming spring and summer. Eleanor Marie, the only filly of this age in the Weir stable, which has not yet won, is not likely to leave here a maiden, as she has shown well iu her work, while he has not as yet started bis colt by Gut of Reach -Miss McMcekin. which be has named Johnnie Mae as a compliment to his skillful assistant trainer. John McLaughlin. The two fillies in the Weir stable by Ben Trovato. May W. and Ida Trovato. are extra good looking and a credit to that good horse which raced so well for trainer Carroll B. Reid. All his fillies Weir bought at public sale last year, but his two colts he pur-5 chased privately last fall of J. E. Madden.
