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| i j I I I I j I j ! | | | ; ; j j ■ ; j I i j j j | i j RAPIDLY FILLING UP ■ Many Horses Arriving at the Long Island Tracks. Cool Weather Sunday Retards Training Gallops — Stimulus Showing Good Speed. • NEW YORK. N Y.. April 5.— The Long Island tracks are rapidly filling up wfih horses from the winter race courses. One of the largest recent shipments reached Belmont Park Sunday morning from Xew Orleans. W. A. Bridgens brought Stirrup Cup and eight two-year-olds from the Crescent City to Belmont Park for the Greentree Stable. Another division of the stable went from Xew Orleans to Bowie several weeks ago for a Maryland campaign, but the band in charge of Bridgens will not be raced until the local campaign opens. In the same shipment from Xew Orleans R. H. Shannon brought four horses. One of these, Tonnerre, races in Shannons own colors. The others. Thundering, Reson.iance and In Love With Love, he is training for Mrs. T. J. Regan. Trainer E. Mulrenan has arrived at Belmont Park with four horses belonging to Clarence Buxton. The older horses in the shipment which came from the Miami track are McCrimmon, War Mask and Standfast. The two-year-old Astrid was also included. ARRIVALS AT JAMAICA. Over at Jamaica, where the metropolitan racing will open April 29. the stalls are filling rapidly. The latest arrivals at the Met-; ropolitan Jockey Club course included the veteran W. L. Oliver, "Laird of Lakewood," who arrived from his Xew Jersey winter quarters with six horses. O. Bergman, with Jeroboam and Scratch, and Arthur Merz, with Sword, Hootch and Sea Hawk, are recent arrivals at Jamaica from Havana, where they campaigned during the winter. Although the weather was clear Sunday morning, a blustery cold wind made condi-I tions at Belmont Park decidedly unpleasant for training. Most of the trainers, accordingly, either confined their activities to shed exercise or merely gave their charges slow-canters on the training track. Trainer George Odom had Marshall Fields Kentucky Derby candidate, Stimulus, out for a brisk half mile workout in company with his stablemate, R. L. Gerrys Peanuts. Stimulus was in a running mood. He ran the first quarter in :22%, three-eighths in M, and finished out the half in :47%. with plenty of speed in reserve. Trainer Odom had signalled the boy to ease Stimulus up in the last sixteenth and the colt was hardly out of a canter at the end. SIMPTER GOES A MILE. Robert Odoms Derby candidate, Sumpter, was worked a mile in 1 :47. He galloped the first quarter in :25, the half in :50%. and three-quarters in 1 :19%. Although the colt was not extended at any time during the gallop, he did not impress the work-watchers particularly. He did not run kindly, it appeared. With the opening of the local racing season still more than three weeks away, most of the hors.s in active training at the Long Island tracks are rapidly approaching racing condition. Many of them appear to be ready for hard racing, even now. and thos which are being trained with a Havre de Grace campaign in view are particularly well along in their conditioning. Mven if the favorable weather of the past few weeks is followed by adverse spells between now and the opening date at Jamaica, the majority of the trainers at the metropolitan tracks have their horses far enough along to escape any serious setbacks. Hardly anything, it appears, can prevent the opening of the local racing from having a greater supply of fit horses than ever before.
