PAPYRUS IN TRAINING.

Shannon News, 2 October 1923, Page 4

PAPYRUS IN TRAINING.

BELMONT PARK HARD CLAY TRACK. AMERICAN TOUTS IMPRESSED (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 30 Papyrus received his first work out to-day, being given two brief walks, lasting half an hour each, over the Belmont race track, which unlike English courses, is hard clay, not turf. Messrs. Jarvis and Jones, while a little sceptical concerning Papyrus’s adaptability to such a track, believe it will not prove a serious handicap. Papyrus will be training consistently on walks until the end of the week, when he will probably be galloped, his trainer feeling that the horse will quickly arrive at his best Torm. Tremendous popular interest has been aroused in the race, which will probably prove one of :{he greatest spectacles of any sporting Great srowds throng Belmont for a

sight of Papyrus, who impresses all American observers because of hia well-balanced physical qualifications. The two most promising American three-year-olds are Zev and My Own, who have won. many important races during t'he current season. The owners of Zev are reluctant to enter him in the preliminary race, the winner of which will meet Papyrus, feeling that the contest will be so strenuous that it will possibly result in injury to both animals through accident, leaving America without a representative horse for the international race. The Jockey Club, therefore, may be com. pelled to make an arbitrary choice. Brigadier-General Mitchell, of the air service, and a famous/sportsman, has written a letter to the club, protesting against any choice being made without a preliminary race, declaring that : the American public, which considers the event will create the opportunity for better feeling among Englishspeaking peoples, will not stand any feature that is not strictly sportsmanlike.