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t~- : * MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUBS SPRING MEETING WILL BEGIN AT PLMLICO TODAY. J. . 1 _ .L Baltimore. Mil.. April 30. — Old Pimlieo presents a pleasing appearance to the eye on the eve of the opening day of the Maryland Jockey Clubs spring meeting of fifteen days. All preparations have been completed to entertain one of the biggest crowds in the history of this famous racing organization. Predictions are freely made that the greatest season of racing ever witnessed in Maryland iu the early spring is on hand. Certain it is that never before have there been so many high-class horses available for racing so earlv in the year. Racing Secretary William I*. Kiggs has provided an attractive opening day program of seven races, with the Rennert Handicap, at one mile, as the feature. A good band of fast horses, which have been racing at Havre de Grace and are in tiptop condition, are carded to start in this race and the prospects are that it will lie a contest worth seeing. The Inaugural Steeplechase will bring together a number of timber toppers of proved ability through the field. There are also two ra«-cs for juveniles. The overnight purses will range in value from *0 to S1..KHJ in added money. The total distribution in stakes and purses for the fifteen days will reach over S100.000. From i uen t turf men from various parts of the country were at Iimlico track Sunday morning to see their horses gallop. Maj. Kal Parr, C. S. A., came up from Camp Meade w;ith a trio of visiting French army officers and watcle-d liis French-bred colts. Crimper and Man o the Hour, the former a .audidatc for the Iimlico Spring Handicap, the latter, barring accident, in the Prenkm ss Stakes, ivorked a brisk mile. Crimper, accompanied by The Belgian II., turned a mile in 1:43%. He was unex-tcmled all the way. Man o the Hour galloped a mile in 1:44 by himself. He had speed to spare. Both Man o the Hour aud Crimper have improved vastly iu appearance over winter and their work made friends for them among the spectators. I William Garth, who is handling the division of the Parr horses which are training at Pimlieo. sent the French jumper. Lc Marsouin. a possible starter in the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, u mile ami 1 quarter at three-quarters speed. He will school the French horse tomorrow, when the steeplechase field will be thrown open to the jumpers for the first time. Tbe schooling of the feucers at Pimlieo this spring will lie done over the main course. The schooling jumps have liceu removed to give airplanes space for rising and alighting. George W. I-oft of New York, and Mrs. Loft, saw the probable Preakness tavorite, Iapp, gallop a. mile in 1:4.1. with last years Preakness winner, Kalltan. as a running mate. Papp and Kalitan kept together the cut in- distance ami were under re-1 straiut all the way. Both are training satisfactorily. Kalitan is being prepared by Max llirsch for the Pimlieo Spring Handicap, and Hirsch is of the opinion that he will take a lot of beating. After Kalitan and Papp. neither of which has been galloped hard yet. left the track. Cum Sail and Cavun Boy. the second flight three -year-olds in the Loft stable, turned brisk miles. Cum Sail, a stake winner last year, may be a starter in the Preakness with Papp. Mr. and Mrs. Loft are here for the spring races. They will not go back to New York until their horses are shipped to Belmont Park. The mest impressive work shown in the course of the morning by a prospective Preakness candidate was Quietudes mile in 1:42%. Quietude is a fine-looking daughter of Dalhousie — Tabouret, bred at Bowling Brook Farm in Carroll County, Maryland, by Koliert Waldeu, who is training her. She will bear the silks of Alfred Hennan Morris, of New York, in the Preakness. Mr. Morris is a partner of Mr. Waldeus in his racing and breeding ventures. Quietude is fast, smooth-gaitod and game. It is likely that she will lie the only Morris starter on May 1.1. Her stable companion, the colt Decisive, is not doing as well in his training. Michael Daly arrived from Havre de Grace with Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords* Preakness candidate. Dr. Johnson, arfcoae stock is soaring since his brilliant Iierformnnco at Havre de Grace on Saturday with Jock Scot. Mary Maud. Bellringer. Peerless One and two or three other sprinters. When Dr. Johnson, after keeping up with the fact pacemaker — the half was turned ill -10 flat -raced from behind Jack Slot to win guilt;; away, he convinced everylxxly that in would stick. Daly brought lied Sox down from Havre de Grace witli Dr. Johnson. Red Sox also is a Preakness candidate, and he will start if he trains satisfactorily. Daly believes that he likes a long distance of ground. Nep|»erhan. which is to lioar the silks of Maj. Gifford A. Cochran in the Preakness. arrived from Havre do Grace on Saturday along with Bughouse, another good three-year-old. the four-year-old Philippic and a number of good two-year-olds by His Majesty. Nepjiorhan is to have a preparatory race or so at Iimlico. He is a colt of fine proportions I and has Ix-on picked by many of the horsemen who I saw him race at Havre de Grace as the best of the Preakness horses shown under silks this year. William P. Btrreh hits arrived from Binning with the division of the stable of Samuel Ross he is training. ITtimatum and Crank are the best of Mr. Burchs veterans. They are about ready for the colors, too. So is Alvord. Mr. Ross showed a smart filly at Havre dc Grace in Ormonda, a daughter of Superman, bred at the Blue Ridge Stud, in Virginia, by Henry T. Oxnard. which Max Smart is training, but Mr. Burch is said by the Penning trainers to have a couple that can beat Ormonda.
