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BROMLEY and CO.S YOUNG HORSES. Several critics who have inspected the Bromley and Co. horses now in Julias Bauers charge, near Lexington, Ky., have all been favorably impressed by a number of the younger division, and if their views are correct it may be that this enterprising Chicago firm is at last to have something like the measure of success their liberal expenditures richly entitle them to reap. One observer says in a recent letter to an eastern newspaper: "The three-year-olds Heliobas.by Farandole Borden Lass; Rose oLeo. by Duke of Montrose SisoLee: La Cheviot, by Cheviot Elsie S., and Composer, by Wagner Miss Barnes should make a useful lot. The two fillies are small, but both are racy looking, especially La Cheviot, which last year showed enough speed to warrant the belief that she can win in the right company. Heliobas and Composer are fine big colts. The latter is a compact, powerfully built yonngstor, and will not need to improve a great deal to keep a good mauy of the three-year-olds busy in the short races at least. Heli-obas has the make and build of a good horse. He has range and substance, and if he trains on well may have something to say in the decision of the three-year-old stakes. He was a better horse than Greatland last spring. "The two-year-olds are a good, serviceable, all around lot. Three or four of them have enough quality to win stakes. The bay by Hanover out of Ursuline Nun, by Longfellow, is, to my notion, one of the very best two-year-olds I have seen hero. He is lengthy, well balanced and well built, has a splendid quarter and hind leg, short back, good fore back and level on top with a breedy head and neck. He stands and acts and looks much like Hamburg. Colonel YouDg sold his dam in foal to Hanover to Mr. Appleby for 00, and at Mr. Applebys sale Bromley and Co. bought the colt for i9,500. I doubt if that sum would buy him now. Of course the choosing of racehorses on points is mighty uncertain even with the shrewdest of judges. If a man could do that unfailingly, he would not need to work. At the same time they have got to show quality before they lower records ; and if there is anything in quality, this colt is a good one sure. The brown Hanover cult out of Flying Witch is another youngster with lots of finish and quality. This is a little big horse, one of the sort that you like better the more you look at him; compact, stout and yet standing over plenty of ground. He is well muscled, free from lumber, and ought to come early to hand. He is a handy type and may prove a shifty fellow in some of the stakes. The chestnut colt by Hanover out of Miss Baden is small, but ail horse. He is a good counterpart of Handball. Of the others the big colt by Order Hattie B., dam of Deceiver; chestnut colt, by Albert Hoodoo, brother to Jinks, and the chestiint by Sir Dixon Mattie Amelia, all impressed me very favorably. The three are much of a type, rangy, but short-backed, good legs, quarters and shoulders, and powerfully built. One could nut select very many of this sort without getting a racer. The Sir Dixon is especially rugged, and if he turns oat to be a good one, he will certainly stand a lot of campaigning. Another colt, fall brother to Gotham, a bay, is a big, long, low, lengthy fellow. He will not train early, but, with waiting on, may make a good racehorse. There is one especially good looking filly in the lot. She is a bay by Iroquois Yorkville Belle. She is a tremendous big mare now, with great strength and powerful development all over. She is a trifle long in the back, but still so well muscled aad stoutly built that she ought to handle weight.
