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THE "WHITNEY STABLE STARS. Some observations of "Kelstons" based on an inspection of the powerful Whitney stable are of interest in view of what is expected this year from its many noted horses. He says : "Of the older horses, Plaudit has furnished and filled out all over. He is a much bigger and more powerful animal, and taken all together is perhaps the most high class type that Himyar has ever sired. I am still of the opinion that he is the highest class horse of his age now in training. He has been suffering from rheumatism and is now occasionally troubled with it. "George Keane looks remarkably well, and if I had to pick the winner of the Brooklyn Handicap at this early date I would select this muscular son of Onondaga. He is none too harshly treated in the Metropolitan Handicap also, and as ho showed great form over the Withers mile last fall he has only to be fit on the day of the race to take a lot of beating at the weights. Whan this colt is at his best we have few abler horses in training. "Loki looks well, but there is a doubt that ho will stand training. "The rangy, big-framed Bnela Lou Bramble will be schooled for jumping. She is not exactly the type for the cross-country game, but if she takes kindly to it will do well. "Linstock, which will ba put to hurdle racing, is a nice stamp if horse, and should make a smart timber topper, as he is a slean cut, active looking animal, with both substance and quality. "Hurly Burly has put on flesh and grown quite a bit. "High Degree has spread and furnished well, and so, too, has Toluca. Black Venus has also come on nicely. Harmonica has not thrived as well as the others. "Mr. Clay is developing into quite a good looking horse, and it may be that he will prove but little behind the re3t, as he kept on improving all of last season. "Jean Berand, always well furnished and muscular, looks but little different from what he did six months ago, though he is deaper through the heart and bigger quartered. He is a really good sizad horse on short legs, and while he has plenty of length, ho could well do with an inch or two more in height. Standing up to him I discovered he would not quite show 15.1, which is under the standard, and while there is plenty of horse to him I would feel more hopeful of his future if he were nearer to 15.3. "He always struck me as being an early matured colt that would be liable to show as good form as a two-year-old as he ever would. "The two-year-olds have done remarkably well, and collectively are the beat lot I have seen anywhere. There are half a dozen colt3 that for all around excellence it would ba no easy matter to duplicate. "The Equipoise, Dawn, Exile, Flitaway, Miss Ransom, Miss Nailer, and Last Ban colts are all exceptionally promising, if there is anything in looks. "The Miss Ransom colt is put up ou a large scale and is more like his sire, Candlemas, than anything else he has ever sired. "The Last Ban colt is a truly magnificent youngster, and even now looks like a well fur-nished three-year-old. Although on a big scale, he is smart and active, smooth turned and full of quality, and if ever his sire, Ben Strome, is to be credited with a real smasher, on looks as well as breeding, this ought to ba the one."
