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MERITED GOOD FORTUNE. Concerning the prominent figures cut this I season by the two-year-olds in the stable of f Fleischmann Sons, the New York Sun of Friday - says : "The sous of Charles Fleischmann do not seem i to have anything but good two-year-olds in 1 I I i i ■ i • i » I I , i - 5 , i f • f , i s . i • i r - I f - i 1 their stable this season. Everything that they have started for big money has got it and one colt that they have been content to run in overnight races only, seems to be as good as the stake winners. This colt is Blues, a day, by Belvidere, out of Bonnie Blue II., and a product of the breeding establishment of James Gal way, at Preakness, N. J. Blues made his debut at Aqueduct in a cheap affair, but had bad luck on the turn and was beaten. He was kept under cover at Morris Park meeting and started at Gravesend last Monday. He took Green B. Morriss crack colt, Schoolmaster, into camp very handily, and just to show that there was nothing of the fluke character in that victory, William Fleischmann started him again yesterday. He won right back in handsome style, beating Eugene Leighs Delmarch, Wyndhams Vouch ana Philip J. Dwyers Humboldt in clever fashion. Vouch and Humboldt do not amount to a great deal just now, but Delmarch seems to be improving every day, so that Blues success was highly satisfying. He is a big colt, with a nice, smooth action, and will develop into a stayer from all appearances. Moreover, he is quick on his feet and attains top speed without having to run a mile or so," "ThesFleischmanns have always been popular on the Metropolitan Circuit because there has never been the slightest breath of scandal about the running of their horses. They are always trying, and when one of them is beaten it is be- cause he has met a better horse. The Fleisch-i mann horses are well trained and well managed, and are not run in the interest of any clique of heavy gamblers. The stable was pretty succe6S-; ful last season, when it had Maribert and one or two other good two-year-olds, but it seems to be better off this year. The respective abilities of Bounibert and Irritable are, of course, stable secrets, but on public form either of them is superior to anything else that has appeared in these parts, and the pair will have to be ac-i cepted as the champions until they are beaten in a fair and square race. Irritables success in the race for the Eclipse Stakes on the closing day at Morris Park was quite as easy as Bonni-j berts victory in the National Stallion Race on the preceding Saturday. Irritable is a Tennes-s see-bred colt by Gen. W. H. Jacksons famous English Derby winner, Iroquois, out of the mare Toribera. Bounibert comes from the Adelbert stock at Hopkinsville, Ky. Capt. Cyrus Radford of the United States Marine Corps and Col. Williams are the breeders. He is by the famous stallion Albert out of Bonnie Ola. Bon- nibert is a full brother to Walter C. Rollins three-year-old Herbert, who ran so gallantly in the Brooklyn Handicap, and he will make a better horse. He is quicker in the beginning of a race and has more size. He look* as though he would be able to carry weight well. Herberts la6t two races would seem to indicate 1 that he prefers 95 or 100 pounds to 115 or 118. "The Fleischmanns are depending on two-. year-olds altogether this season. They dis- posed of all their good horses at public auction last year, and will probabbly have another sale again this summer. Next year they will race horses of their own breeding, and when their stud gets in good shape they will cease to buy yearlings. Their principal stallion is Halma, one of the greatest of the sons of the mighty Hanover. Halma ran most of his races in the west in the colors of the late Byron McClelland, and tbey paid 2,0C0 for him when he was on the verge of a breakdown. They did not win him out in races, but they hope to get even on his progeny. Halma is big and strong and healthy, and the choicest thoroughbred blood flows in his veins. His dam, Julia L., was a good mare herself, and, besides Halma she has CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. MERITED GOOD FORTUNE. Continued from First Page. produced MacLeod of Dare and several other fast race horses. Neither Julius Fleischmann, the recently elected Republican Mayor of Cincinnati, nor Captain Max, his brother and racing partner, has been in the east this season, but they are expected by William Fleischmann some time during the June session of the Coney j Island Jockey Club. Irritable and Bonnibert 1 are both eligible for the Double Event and the Great Trial Stakes, the principal two-year-old j races to be run at Sheepshead Bay, and if they l keep well they will fill their dates. I Blues is one or two of the smaller ] stakes. The chances are that the Fleischmann youngsters will all be running at Coney Island. They escaped the coughing epi- 1 demic that broke out at Morris Park. The epi- demic is now happily over, and most of the J crack youngsters in other big stables will be 1 racing before the Gravesend meeting is fin- 1 ii-hed."
