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I I W. B. JENNINGS EAST BOUND I Noted Western Trainer On Way ] to New York — To Get Back in Harness. SAX lKAXCISCO. "al.. April n. Waiter B Jennings, the noted trainer, has left for X. w York. He plans to spend a lew days p at Washington on the way to the eastern I metropolis. Jennings is in fine fettle again f and the illness of last year seems to have _ left no bad effects. ■ i The Virginian is anxious to get back into r harness and it is not unlikely he will be htard of soon as signing up with one of the large establishments of the metropolitan cir- uit. In the fall he plans to be at Tanforan, where it is expected he will be in the stand. Jennings owned his first thoroughbred in j the latter seventies and despite all his years of serviie has not slowed up a bit and is just as enthusiastic now ever putting over a winners in big races as he was fifty years I ago. He made a try with the harness horses at the start, but the sulky game did not hold . him long. of "J couldnt win a race with a trotter, so _ what waa the use of sticking?" is the way j, he puts it when fanning about old times. lie would like to know how many winners •. he has saddled, but lost track of it long ago. . Some day he threatens to forget everything f else and wade through Goodwins and llac- v ing Form semi-annuals until he has informed . himaelf of the total number of his winners. . Pearl Jennings did some good racing for him early in his career over in Maryland and in other parts of the country his ever-popular red and white sttripes often finished ahead of those of Ten Broeck. Cassatt. Lorillard and other famous owners. Sam Hildreth waa one of Jennings exercise boys. Success seldom failed to reward the Virginian for his policy of always trying, and it is to the great credit of the trainer that in all his long career he was never once called into the stand. He knew how to fit his horses, too. and the combination of unswerving I integrity and high skill early established | him in the favor of the public, which he has V never lost. Briar Sweet and scores of others won features hereabouts and then would be shipped to New York, where they almost invariably kept up their good licks. :
