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POINTING FOR THE SPRING HANDICAP Trainer Weir Will Start Jack Hare Jr. in Pimlicos ,000 Stake— Old Rosebud Not Ready. Baltimore. Md.. April 25.— Frank D. Weir, who is training the h,,rses of W. E. Apphgate. is one who does not share in the opiuh f some critics that Jack llarr Jr. will not go a long distance. Weir made this known when lie announced that he had ho|ies of sending the Marathon colt to the iwist in the Pimlico Spring Handicap, for which he also is IMiinting Hendrie. In the opinion of Weir. Jack Hare Jr.s winning race in the Wilmington Stakes was not as good an effort as his performance in the five and a half furlong handicap, in which Nepperhan. Maj. Gif-ford A. Cochrans Preakness candidate, defeated him by a head. Weir points out that in this race Jack Hare Jr. conceded twenty-one pounds to the son of King James in stiff going, which a race at Saratoga last summer proved the Applegate candidate does not fancv. Probably no two-year-old of last year has improved more over winter as regards weight and general bodily development than this son of Marathon. Weir has no fear that he will not run successfully the Pimlico Spring Handicap distance, one mile and seventy yards, and then go on to the Preakness distance. one mile and an eighth. Hendrie likes a slow track as much as Jack Hare Jr. dislikes one. and he is training famously. The work of this son of Star Shoot Iff* and Blue, at Havre de Grace, has lieen as good as that of any horse of mature years there. Hendrie will bear Weirs own silks in the Pimlico Spring Handicap. Three weeks ago Weir was confident he would lie able to get Old Rosebud ready for the Pimlico Spring Handicap, but that great gelding caught cold ami his recovery was neither sufficiently quick nor complete to warrant Weirs taking him up for early training.
