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• • . o o I | o 0 r 1 " • " " s p 1 ■ ■ ] J 1 ■ j 1 " EAST HAS MANY NEW TURF PATRONS 1 List of Nominators for This Years Stake Events Include More Than Twenty Newcomers. New York. April 11. — The many new names to he found in the list of nominators for stake events to lie decided on the eastern turf during the coming season is a certain indication of the rapidly growing iiopularity of racing. In the long list of patrons for the various events there appear the names of more than twenty owners who have not before been programed. Many of these are men of wealth and influence — men who will make themselves felt in 1 turf affairs. Among the newcomers are Edward Cebrian. of California: William DeGumoens. prominent in Wall street; A. H. Diaz, whose home is in Cuba; John A. Drake, who is returning to the turf after au absence of at least ten vears: Col. W. A. Gamble, a well-known Kentuckian: Walter S. Heather, of the Rugby Stud. England, a breeder whoso stock bids fair to become famous in later years; Waldo P. Johnson, who hails from Chicago; Frank G. Martin. Thomas McElroy. George McFarlane, C. E. Mickel waite. A. Neal. of Reno. Nev.: W. F. Poison, of f Buffalo: Henrv A. Porter, who has bought an impressive stable of horses: Otto Rogers, of Eagle Lake. Tenn.. and Charles Thieriot. Others will race . under the stable name. This division includes the Potomac Stable, which belongs to J. J. Timmerman i and C. C. Forr. of Washington; the Huntington Valley . Farm and the Poland Stable, owned by some • Detroit s|iortsmen. ROSS HORSES ESCAPE DISTEMPER. Samuel .T. Ross was in town recently to see some of his associates embark for the front and to wish them Godspeed. He will race a few of his best . horses this rear. Others he will give away to army officers or others who will take good care of them. "We all have a band of poor horses that cannot j win races, and it is far better to give them to some- one who we know will give them a good home than sell them indiscriminately to men who might abuse J them." said Mr. Ross. "Fortunately mv stable escaped the sickness at Washington that "struck the stables of others. It r was a sort of distemper, but most of the horses afflicted have now recovered." Joseph Widener was at Belmont Park a few days 5 ago to look over his extensive stable in the hands • of Tom Welsh. It is one of the largest establish-a nients quartered at that track. "There are far too many horses for comfort." said Mr. Widener. "We cannot get sufficient help to look lifter them. The help question has touched 1 the racing stables as well as everything else. If f some of the horses only race up to their looks I I shall lie more than satisfied and many of the young horses earrv earmarks of ability. "1 look forward to a prosperous racing season, and it is safe to predict some of the best horses ever r seen in this country will lie put to the test both in the .youngster and aged divisions." — — *
