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HILDRETHS GOOD STRING. It is. a very different collection of thoroughbreds from that which S. C. Hildreth carried north last year that will campaign in his colors during the forthcoming summer. Hildreth left Memphis last spring, started the struggle here for purses by winning the Worth Handicap with the speed marvel, Waring, and a little later startled the turfites by capturing five flat races in one afternoon. There was but one other race programmed at the Worth track that day, and it was a steeplechase event which might have been won by Hildreths Precursor, had he started. The all conquering stable of Hildreths at that time included Lucien Appleby, McChesney, Gonfalon, Searcher, Rolling Boer, The Lady, Vulcain and others, in addition to Waring. Horses running in Hildreths colors won 1,466, and those he sold to Durnell and Herz and other parties won more than 0,000, which made Hildreth the looked on largest winner of the year. Hildreth will start the local season of racing with sixteen head of good, bad and indifferent horses. The most talked of horse in his barn at present is Topsoil, an American Derby candidate that beat Dick Welles, Savable, Early and other crack two-year-olds in such a manner in a stake at Washington Park last summer that his stock for the Derby has increased very much of late. In Witfull and Floyd K., Hildreth has other three-year-olds, and his four-year-olds include Lord Quex, John Peters, Major Tenny, Leviathan and Harry Wilson. Lord Quex will be given his first chance to race in the Montgomery Handicap, for which he has received backing in the future book. In five-year-olds Hildreth has C. B. Campbell, Sarner, Telamon, St. Marcos and Alard. The aged Favonius is the solitary member of the old division. In two-year-olds Hildreth owns a couple of his own breeding, but one of them at least will never race unless a technicality that exists over the registration of the colts dam can be straightened out with the Jockey Club. The colt is by Brutus, but the dam, Rihando, has never been duly registered. The other youngster is a bay colt by Hamilton H., which raced in Hildreths colors, and the dam is La Salinas, also owned by Hildreth.
