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ESSEX PARK RACING NEXT 4, OAKLAWN MEETING CLOSES THURSDAY AND RACING SHIFTS TO THE OLDER TRACK. +• H Two-Year-Olds Will Race Without Penalty at the Coming Meeting After April 1 — Considerable Claiming Done at Oaklawn. Hot Springs. Ark.. March 25. — This week marks the shifting of tin- V;i]or City racing from Oaklawn lark to Rhci lark. abeie it ten days meeting bo- i gins n next Friday. As was the case when Oaklawn opened, the inaugural day at Essex will be a half holiday bj proclamat ion of Mayor Dr. .1. W. 1 Mediation. The final inciting in Hot Springs this 1 spring will be ushered in with a lot of pomp and ] n liinoiiy on the part of the loeal business men. I There will be no interval in the racing here, as the 1 Oaklawn Park season ends the day before Beset Path begins and the moving of the stables will re-i|iiire little time. ■f CI J thing is in readiness for the opening at INsex and tlie horsemen and turf enthusiasts who have visited the racing plant on a tour of inspeetion have placid the "•». K." stamp on I H I J thief connected with the i lire, Ccncral Manager Sain Davis iias worked hard, in an effort to have the place modern in every reaped and his efforts have Ivi n crowned with success. Many social parties have been arranged for the opening day in tlie lubl.ousc and these will be daily featsret of the mooting. When ti/e INwx lark meeting [lets to going. the time limit on two-year-olds. April 1 will have expired and the juveniles will be seen in ai tion there. Ilorsenn n who start their youngsters at that track can race them up the line, and the Birr ting there will serve to fit some of thess for their northern and eastern campaigns. There are plenty of two-year -olds here, even though there were no races for them at Oaklawn lark. All of them are ready to race, as they have been given plenty of work-outs. Aldebaran Improved With Winter Rest. h. Wttlfc the end of t li" Oaklawn meeting close at hand, a review at it shows that it has been a record breaker in every respect in the history of racing ill this city. Not even those conncct-d with the rice track expected it to be of each proportions as it assumed right from the start, and from a standpoint of interesting racing, it has been in a class by itself. During the first fourteen days raciac :t taklawn. fatty races out of the eighty -four run were decided by the mar-Kin of one length or less, and twenty -three by the margin of a nose, head or neck. This percentage of elose fits is remarkable, in view of the fact that in a number 1 races, especially when the track was muddy, bad horses contested. Tlie race goi rs here have been particularly apt at picking winners. That the number of operators has been close to the forty mark as long as it has. is wonderful. The past WCCk saw some of the operators take tlie rouut. after three disastrous days in a row. but the number never dwindled below thirty and the principal ones all remained on throughout the siege. It is apparent that Batfl Herz is desirous of having a representative in the coming Kentucky Derby, because of his recent purchase of Manisti r Toi from Grant Hugh Brvwac. hTaaleli i Tat, which is an imported horse. thawed two g. od piifoinitnuit here, winning once in the mud and another time on a dry track. This shows that he is not particular about track conditions. His first victory was in a maiden race at a sprinting distance, but tlie other was at a mile and lie beat a good band of three year -olds. Ilaaiatet IM is a son of Santol - Iloriot and is a w. 11 formed bone. He was never raced as a two year old. but. despite this, he dies not run a bit green, as do a lit of im ported horses starting for the first few times atCC American race tracks. He will lie taken to Kentucky witli the Jefferson Livingston horses and will get his final Derby preparations at Churchill Dawns or Donglas lark. The Herz horses are wintering at tin- latter track. Although the ••halter brigade" kept quiet for the first few days of tlie meeting, there is hardly a day now but that a few horses change hand- via the claiming process. Naturally winners are the most sought, and the claiming rule in vogue here, whereby winners may be taken the same as a be tea horse, has resulted in many of them going into new barns. The claiming rule so ms to be working out all right, turnover, as no complaints are heard ri girding it. This rule was drafted at the solicitation of the boreestea and if they would not be satisfied with it. it would be nobodys fault but their own. Oaklawn Meeting Record Breaker. After a winters rest. Aldebaran has come back to the races apparently a much better horse than when he raced last fall. In two of his starts at Oaklawn Iark be lowered one track record and equalled another and beat formidable opposition both times. The mile and seventy yards mark is lew- to hi credit, 1:43%, which is oae-fifth of a etcaad better than the old mark. 11- tied the three-quarters murk. 1:121 . but this was later reduced by I.riiiul- y. Aldebaran has shown a tendency bete to -print as arell as go a longer raate whip foriaei lj he did not get to going at I i. best spoil in s|irint laces. Ho has been will neeniaated in stakes in Kentucky ami New York aad his owner ox poets much of him during the coming spring and Milium r. Among the latest to enter tlie ranks af tie- owners . here i- O. V.. His!, op. a wealthy oil man of Kansas. : Thus far Mr. Bishop ha-- obtained only a few boren [ bit it i- his intention to collect a formidable -table to race daring the coming spring and summer. He . j. a erhoohnate of Ham Leans, of "run up" fame, and Ins horses are being trained by Amber Johnston, who also train- for 1,nus. His first purchase here was Toot.-ie. 4jid a few days later ha used bar to dh liini a hoi -e out a raio with. He does not intend I to confine hiatal If to Sflllag platers by any mentis - If he does net get hold of any high class banes I lire, he will make a lew purchases up tlie line ■ tl i- spring. The wind up at Oaklawn will find a few stables I shipping to Howie, win-re racing opens April 2. . but not many will depart before tin- Beau lark . s, wasp is ovr. The Kentucky delegation will remain intai t in the Vapor City until tie final taeaka • clears away and then they will have only a two weeks lav "ff antil the Kentucky Association meeting opens at Lexington.
