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POMPEY IN SPEED GALLOP • Great Colt Makes Impressive Showing in Workout. • J. B. Widener. J. K. Madden. H. . Fisher ami Knneocas Stable Horses Bspoatoi Within Next Few Days. « NEW YOBK. X. Y.. April 1!— W. B. Coe"s Pompey. progressed another step in his training for the Kentucky I erby. when he displayed a high flight of speed in a seven-eighths dash over the main course at Belmont Bark this morning. The bay son of Sun Briar — Cleopatra, accompanied by his stablemate. Black Maria, was brought out on the track shortly before eight oclock. He was playful and full of life. The pair galloped slowly towards the mile post on the back stretch and. on a signal from trainer Karriek. started together from the seven-eighths post and worked back to the stand. A high, cold wind was blowing at the time, but it did not seem to affect the speed of Pompey. Inder steady restraint, he galloped through the first quarter in :2:W5. and on to the half in :47V,, the eolt was still under steady restraint and went the first five-eighths in 1 :»% and the three-quarters in 1 rltf,. Through the final eighth Pompey was well under restraint and finished the distance in 1 :28. The work was an impressive one and he came back without taking a long breath. Black Maria ran along with him the entire journey. Despite the cold blustery weather that prevailed at the Nassau county course today, there was considerable activity. Horsemen took full advantage of the slight improvement in the weather over the peat few days and sent their charges along at a fast clip. Schooling activities at the barrier were of a spirited nature and upwards of two hundred juveniles were put through the pace under assistant Boy Dickerson. The many" improvements, under construction, were rushed along while a new force of men began to tear down the inner rail on the main track in front of the stand. The old wooden rail will be replaced by a steel and wood one, corresponding to the new one that borders the new seven-eighths straightaway. The main track will be thrown open in the course of the next few days when the grading on the chute is completed, where it crosses the main track. Track superintendent Pels completed arrangements today to receive the stables of .1. K. Widener. .1. K Madden and H. C. Fisher. The horses, eight carloads, will be Contiutieri on twelfth page I POMPEY IN SPEED GALLOP uiitinueil from first juice I shipped from Louisville. The J. E. VVidener stable is in charge of Q. EL Keene and jockey Karl Sande accompanied them. Jockey W. Harvey, who is also under call to the Widener stable, will report to trainer Keene at the dose of the Havre de Grace meeting. The Rancocas Stable, in charge of trainer S. C Hildreth. will, according to latest reports, leave Jobstown. N. J., on Wednesday. The stalls in the stable are bedded down and r--ady to receive the horses. W. A. Wollmans Half Pint, was kicked on the knee by his stablemate, Danby, a few days ago and will be on the shelf for a short time. Danhy. which was fired and turned out for the winter, is again in training; and going along well. Apprentice jockey t;. Wills, is under eall to the stable. Steeplecha.se jockey Rarret Haynes. who reeently returned from Kngland. will resume riding at the Inited Hunts meeting. He will have the mount on the Raritan Stables Rip. Lea Heffner. of Queens, I.. I., has announced his intention of joining the owners ranks this summer, and is dickering for the purchase of several two-year-olds. Payne Whitney was an interested spectator of the morning gallops of the ireentree Stable two-year-olds and witnessed the youngsters work in company with trainers Phillips and Powers. *
