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Show PATTERSON'S PAST STRING. Has the Noted Humo on the List. Trlbuno Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. May 5, Charles T Patterson La back from tho Pacific coast, weighing 30 pounds moro than he did when ho owned and trained Ornament, tho crack 3-ycar-old of 1837. Pattercon has a. stable of mod era to strength, owned Jointly by hlmcolf and by Clnrcnco P Watorhouse, of California. Ho will campaign this string through the summer, but lie In In no hurry to got his horses to tho post Mr. Patterson takes tho view that Inasmuch 113 tho season Is to bo a good long one, tho man who bides his tlmo will hold out better than the man who rushes hln horses Into condition In early spring. ratterson was never a hurry-up trainer. Tho star of Patterson's string this season will probably bo Humo, Humo la tha Eddlo Jaincs gelding who, after bowing a tendon nt Saratoga Sara-toga In the summer of 1C0I, came back to tha races last fall and mad a first-class 3-year-old. ' The restoration of tho Eddlo Jones horse wa duo to tha patient, painstaking work of the Kentucky trainer. Last fall Pattornon said ho Intended to put Humo In tho big handicaps of 1&03 and try to win one. Dut In California last winter ho thought better of that scheme, He decided to raco Humo for small stakes and purses and leave the big handicaps to sounder and perhaps bettor horses. Humo did not race on tho Pacific coat last winter. Ho rusttcatod at a Kentucky farm and fattened up a bit. lie appiars to be In llmt-rato condition Just now, and looks very much as though hla bad leg will boor him up. Dut for fear an early prep might break Humo down again Patterson Patter-son will glvo him tlmo. Ho will b content If the horse does not race until the Brighton midsummer meeting. It was at Brighton that Humo won his first good 2-year.-old raco, and It was at tho Bench lust summer that ho scored his first 8-ycar-old, Humo began as a soiling plater, but It waa not a great whllo until ho was shouldering top weight In handicaps In which ho met .horses of tho maturo division. Patterson will make a. special effort to restore Humo again this season, becaiuu he thinks a lot of tho Eddlit Jones horse. If Humo had not bowed a tendon, ten-don, tho Kentucklnn believes ho would havo made as good a 3-jcar-old as Ornament was In 1W7. Vanderbllt's Horses Making Good. Trlbuno Special Sporting Service. PARIS, May 5. All things come to him -who waits, and, fortunately Mr. V. K. Vanderbllt, who took to racing In France some years ago, taking over the establishment of M. Camllle Blanc at Salnt-Louls-tle-Polsey. has now a chance of reaping the reward of his patience. Sportsmen were glad to see him win tho first of the semi-classic events, the Prix Hocouart, named after one of the former Btewards of the Jockey club, with Malntenon, who was one of the best of the yearlings sent up for sale by M- Gaston-Dreyfus at Deauvllle last August twelvemonth. He Induced some smart bidding when he was led round the ring, and the $1600 given for him has come back with Interest while the son of Le Saglstalre and Marcla, engaged In all the classic events of the Continental turf during 1906, will most assuredly make a name for himself and bring honor to owner and trainer If the form he now shows be correct. Mr. Vanderbllt has secured the services ser-vices of the American trainer, Duke, and since he has had the management of the stable and has obtained the ear of hla employer things have gone well with the white Jacket and black hooped sleeves. Terburg was claimed from tho ownership from M. Camllle Blanc, and then Malntenon waa bought on the advice of the trainer, who h&V shown not only that he knew hl3 K ness, but that he was also-- lent judge. .M Oil Aft |
