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Stables Still Arriving Daily at Sportsmans Several Horses Work Despite Adverse Conditions Prevailing CICERO, 111., April 24— With heavy rains having fallen off and on the past four days, training operations at Sportsmans Park, naturally, were curtailed fo some extent over the week-end, but several trainers braved the elements with their charges at the half-miler and neighboring Hawthorne and as a result some useful moves were recorded. However, most "of the horses on the grounds have been seasoned by actual competition at the winter tracks and need but little legging-up exercise to have them ready for the sport out here. Despite the unpleasant conditions prevailing, Roy "Boots Dickerson and his four assistants. Robert Thomas, James Thompson, Fred Crickenburger and Martin Penter, conducted schooling sessions from the gate. As a result of their work, the several juveniles here will be well versed in post manners when they face Dickerson in an actual contest. Meanwhile, horses are continuing to arrive at the local course, with trainer James Nugent one of the latest to check in. Nugent will campaign three horses for the. Myrtle Maroon Stable, they being Red Tet, little V. and Liberty Flash. Ex-jockey Warren Yarberry, who came from Monroe, Neb., bedded down stalls for Just Beans and Keen Slats, while J. D. Mikel received Heart Breaker, who was quite a sprinter on the Mid-West circuit a few years back, from the farm.
