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STARS START AT OAKLAWN Eternal Applauded Before and After His Easily Won Race Eed Red Rose Gives Another Dis ¬ play of Her Unflinching Game ness Grey Eagle a Victor HOT SPRINGS Ark March 29 Oaklawn of ¬ fered its patrons this afternoon a card of features that would have done credit to any track in the country and it resulted in bringing out the full racing strength in these parts Stellar interest centered in the nurse race which introduced Eternal among the starters It was the crack colts initial appearance as a threeyearold and his performance held interest even for the most hardened of turf followers followersThe The appearance of last years twoyearold star on the track was the signal for a spontaneous and prolonged outburst of applause and followed him until well on his way to the post It was r newed later on his return to the scales an easy victor over those he met Eternal showed all his oldtime speed and was under mild restraint for the entire race of five and a half furlongs win ¬ ning hard held by a comfortable margin from Docod with Drummond following Discussion as to Ifis chances in the Kentucky Derby naturally followed but no one outside of owner McClelland was posi tive in their conviction The race proved con ¬ clusively that Eternal is well along in his prepara ¬ tion despite his appearance of still being on the high side He will probably be benefited to v considerable afternoonThere extent by his race this afternoon There are some who opine that Eternal willibftf found jwantingvwhen put to the Kentucky DLTby test bill todays race does not prove that he i anything short of a Derby horse horseSpirited Spirited racing bringing in its wake sever surprises was the rule throughout the afternooii beginning with a narrow escape from defeat by Mrs Payne Whitneys crack Red Red Rose which just managed to get iipin the last stride to down Castor with Rarar a confidently backed one landing in third place St Isidore carrying the colors of Col John Faw cett won the purse in the second race Rriiighurst following him home homeSlippery Slippery Kim was considered bejtf in the mile and seventy yards handicap but Grwr Eagle after a hard effort succeeded in overhauling him and won in the last fmy strides Kewpie OXeil proved the surprise of the mile and an eighth handicap when he succeeded in out ¬ staying Dick AVilliams a heavily backed one in the fifth race raceMedusa Medusa took the final race in runaway style with Lucius u highly regarded one finishing far back and seemingly sulking for most of the race Me ¬ dusa was entered for 300 and was claimed by Frazier Hayes for 900 W C Weant also hall a claim in for her but it was ruled too late Jockey lateJockey Rurke had to be absent from the saddle today on account of an injury to his foot footHONEYWOOD HONEYWOOD COLT BRINGS 4000 4000San San Diego the chestnut colt by Honeywood Ida brought here by Early Wright in the George Wingfield collection was sold this morning to Mrs R L Bresler for a reported price of 4000 4000Barney Barney Schreiber was a belated arrival from Xew Orleans today He sent his horses from the Crescent City to Howie and will leave here for Baltimore daysJockey in a few days Jockey Clifford Robinson leading rider at Xew Orleans last winter will resume riding Monday after a long layoff occasioned by a broken arm He sustained the injury in a fall from a two ¬ yearold yearoldHugh Hugh Gilmqre departs for Lexington Ky next week to begin the task of schooling the two yearolds in that section at the barrier for starter A H Dade DadeJockey Jockey Andy Schuttinger is suffering from an attack of grippe and for that reason he did not ride Eternal today His condition is not serious seriousSeveral Several Kentucky Derby candidates were given good workouts today the best of them being by Sailor He covered a mile in 140 ridden out He ran the first quarter in 24 the half mile in 4S and the threequarter in 1115 This was his first real trial since he came here Bridesman W Martins Derby eligible ran a mile in 142 and was cantered out aii extra eighth in 157 His frac ¬ tions were 2 4S 11524 jje was not extended at gallopThe any part of the gallop The Wanderer was worked a mile in 145 and the final quarter found him under hard restraint He worked the first quarter in 237r the half milo in 48 ami the threequarters in lll He pulled up in good style and cooled out comfortably John Lowe sent Escovar one of his Derbv colts fiveeighths in 107 107The The condition books of the meeting for the rac ¬ ing embracing March 31 to April 5 Avere dis ¬ tributed among the horsemen today todayJohn John Considine former partner of Big Tim Sullivan in the SullivanConsidine circuit was a visitor todayC from California today C K Patterson today took first call on the services of jockey Mack Garner for the remainder of meetingThe the Oaklawn Park meeting The following horses most of them from the Willis Slian e Kilmer stable were disposed of at auction by Tony Wallace in the paddock previous to todays races Amstello to J Mnssey SliiOO Sea Way to L G Pierce Si 75 Tableu dHonneur 350 Onnii Reed 35 Mummy S125 to E Hotch kiss Baigneur to F Gering Jr 325 Polygamist to J Massey 300 Horeb a twoyearold colt by Horron Cyprienne to T D Steels 110 Jlury Mallon to M Sanders 115 Mannikin to J A Strode 325
