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GREY LAG TOP WEIGHT I Given Post of Honor in Assignment for Dixie Handicap. s Zev and In Memoriam Second on List, Each With 129 Pounds Exterminator in at 128. t I v NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 31. Frank J. Bryan lias announced the weights for the n Dixie Handicap, the mile and three-six- u tecnths 5,000 feature that is to be decided t at the spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico. With the revival of the v former old stake there comes back the early t announcement of weights that will be tre- t mendously popular with the horsemen in the discussion that is possible before the run-ning. a Grey Lag, the Rancocas Stables champion 0 of the handicap division, is at the top with 333 pounds as his impost, and that was to be expected. Then comes Zev, from the same i stable, and Carl Wiedemanns In Memoriam. They are in under equal weights of 129 0 pounds. That would appear a just valuation of these two great colts, taking a line j through their last meeting in the Churchill r Downs match. j Old Exterminator is in under 128 pounds 3 and the old son of McGee is well able to j handle such a weight in the best company i if Henry McDaniel is successful in bringing him back to the races. He is in training at Tijuana now and reports of his progress are satisfactory. Admiral Cary T. Graysons My Own comes , next with 127 pounds as his burden. For a , considerable time last year there were many of the opinion that My Own was the master of Zev, but toward the end of the racing year the son of King James did not race to , his earlier form. j These constitute the high weights and there is a drop to 122 pounds, at which weight the 3 Lexington Stables brother to Man o" War, My Play, is handicapped. Enchantment, Martingale, Mad Hatter, Snob II. and Wil- derness are each in under 120 pounds, and , of that band it would seem that Mad Hatter j lias a shade the better of it, provided he is , in a running mood the day of the race. ST. JAMES AXD SARAZEN. George D. Wideners St. James, the largest . money-winning two-year-old of last year, with Mrs. Vanderbilts unbeaten gelding Sarazen, are at the top of the three-year-olds with an impost of 114 pounds, surely a big weight over such a distance for a three-year- , old in May. Unfortunately John S. Wards Wise Counsellor was not named for the Dixie, or he would probably have been alongside of . these two. Senator Norris, H. G. Bedwells 1 good colt, is asked to take up 107 pounds ! " and the Rancocas Stables Stanwix is in under 102, while his stablemate Bracadale is handicapped at 106 and Mad Play at 101. It is probable that Mad Play will prove the master of these stablemates on the good race he ran in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes with Wise Counsellor. Rustic, the A. II. Morris candidate, is rated highly when he has ben assigned 107 pounds. It would be possible to go on through the list and both commend and criticise, but that may be done by those who care to study the weights. At this time the assignments appear to be eminently fair. Under the conditions of the Dixie there are winning penalties after the publication of weights that can make a material difference in the assignments. Following are the conditions for the Dixie with the weights: Dixie Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, 5,000 added, one mile and three-sixteenths: Horse. Wt. ITorse. Wt. Grey Lag 133 Dunks Green 107 In Memoriam 120 Itluemont 107 Zev 129 Hopeless 1015 Uxterminator 12S Muttikins 100 My Own 127 Caladium 10G My Play 122 Chittagong 100 Martingale 120 Itraeadale 103 Mad Halter 120 Ilig ISlaze 10J Snob II 120 Ceylon Prince 10; Wilderness 120 Atherstonc 105 Kncliantment 120 Dream Maker 10.i Tryst er 11S Calife 10j Knobbic US Transmute 105 Thunderclap 117 Happy Thoughts 105 Vntidy 117 Sunsini 103 Little Celt 117 Nassau ...105 Chickvale 117 Oppcrman 105 llud Lerner 117 Sunspero 101 Kialto lit! Iicketer 101 Chacolet 115 Lord Baltimore II. ..101 Dunlin 110 Pantcr 104 Tlying Cloud 115 Appellate 104 1lagstaff 115 Gonfalon 103 King Solomons Seal. 115. Mino 103 Spot Cash ....115 Stanwix 102 Kxodus 114 Sun Flag 102 Great Man Ill 1Iag of Truce 102 Sarazen Ill Forest Lore 102 St. James 114 Splc and Span lot Cherry Iie 112 Mad llay 101 Homestretch .......112 Mr. Mutt 101 Vigil 112 Wilkes-Ilarrc 100 Shuffle Along ill T!ie Vintner 100 General Thatcher ...110 Sun Pal 100 Moonraker 110 Setting Sun 100 Olympus 109 Spear Toint ICO Valador 103 Quarantine 100 Flint Stone I OS I-adkin 100 Ten Minutes 107 I-iurano 100 Senator Norris .....107 Cay Konald ...100 liustic 107 1lames 100 Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Dolomite 100 Nautical 95 Aga Khan 100 Faenza 95 Apprehension 100 Blind llay 95 Ascyra 100 Desperate Desmond.. 93 Iittston 99 Sarko 92 Gold Bug 93 Kbb Tide 92 Guclph 93 Dr. OMara 92 Handsome 98 Bonnie Omar 92 Klondyke 9S Carlton 90 Iepp 9S Flash Bock 90 Modest 97 Free Hand 90 Eaglet 9ii Heir-at-Lsiw 90 Batsman 90 Lieutenant Farrell .. 90 Hourmore 915 llough Boy 90 Moon Star 90 Boland 90 Pickpocket 9G Sunshot 90 Bevenuc Agent 915 Sunoar 90 Old Wclboume 95 Suppliant 90 Weights announced Friday, February 1, 1924. Winners of ,500 after the publication of the weights to carry three pounds additional, winners of ,000 after the publication of the weights to carry five pounds additional.
