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"I PRINCE OF MELBOURNE. The appearance of the name of the five-year-old Prince of Melbourne among the nominations for the coming Twin City and Omnium Handicaps at Sheepshead Bay indicates that Alex Shields thinks it likely the Bramble horse will train again. Mr. Shields is not the man to waste money making dates for a horse on a remote chance of the animal filling them. If he did not think well of Prince of Melbournes chances of making a general campaign in the fall he would be content to get him ready for the 5,000 Annual Champion race, for which the horse was nominated by Col. W. S. Barnes, his breeder, and for which he will be eligible as long1 as he stands up. Prince of Melbourne has not done any hard work since Mr. Shields and his partner, Mr. Carrutherg, bought him from Gottfried Walbaum, but he is eating well and is much improved in temper. Tha Bramble horse has a bowed tendon, but the injury is not serious, and Mr. Shields belioves the bad leg will sustain him through a hard preparation. Other horses with worse legs than the Princes have won races. John Hynes, the man who trained the Bramble horse for Mr. Walbaum, has rendered every assistance possible to Mr. Shields. He has let hint have the services of the boy who exercised the surly brute. Hynes does not believe that there is any chance of Latt ons new owners eetting another good race out of him. Latson has completely lost the form he showed in the running of the- Municipal Handicap at Morris Park last fall, when he equaled Ethelberts American record for one mile and three-quarters. If Prince of Melbourne stands up there Is a possibility that he may meet in the Annual Champion the redoubtable Ethelbert. The Hon. Perry Belmont is anxious to win the Annual Champion with the Eothen horse before retiring him to the stud, and Ethelbert is being galloped daily by Jack Joy-ner at Sheepshead Bay td that end. So far Ethelbert has done well, but it is impossible to Bay whether his game leg will stand a couple of hard workouts. The spectacle of Ethelbert, the greatest three-year-old of 1899 and the winner of the Lawrence Realization Stakes, and Prince of Melbourne, the acknowledged champion of WOO and also a winner of the Lawrence Realization, meeting in a race like the Annual Champion would be edifying. It would indicate that the rich two mile and a quarter special had become what its name implies a championship contest. Daily America.
