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CAPTAIN BROWNS STRING. The eastern and western divisions of the. racing stable of Capt. S. S. Brown, the Pitts-burs millionaire turfman, will be made up in Louisville, Ky. The separation of the horses will take place at Churchill Downs. In the east, trainer Peter Wimmer will have a stable of twenty-two head. In the west R. Tucker will campaign twenty-nine head for the Pittsburg coal prince. Just what horses will be sent east has not as yet been fully decided. Captain Brown already has a general idea of the youngsters which will be in each stable, but early trials when the weather opens up may change this plan of procedure. Peter Wimmer now has his horses in training at Capt. Browns Mobile, Ala., track, and in addition to the older horses there are some very highly bred and highly tried youngsters in the lot, which have been entered in the eastern stakes quite extensively. Hyphen, the great four-year-old son of Him-yar and Semaphore, is quartered at the Sen--orita Stud of Capt. Brown, near Lexington, nd will be shipped to Louisville to join the "Wimmer division of the Brown stables at Churchill Downs. Wimmer is expected to arrive in Louisville with his horses by special train about March 20. The string will be unloaded there and will take about three days rest at the Downs before being shipped on to Jersey City. A special train will take the lot on east. The horses wll be sent to Sheepshead Bay, and will not race at any of the earlier metropolitan meetings. None of them will be started before Morris Park. Hyphen has been at the Lexington farm since early in December, and is said to have thrived since he was turned out into blue-grass pastures. Just how good the colt which beat Major Daingerfield will be cannot, of course, be determined until he has been tried. Wimmer thinks that it is purely a question of whether he will stand training or not, and thinks that if he can be gotten to a race neither Major Daingerfield nor the acknowledged champion Hermis will have anything on the Brown colt. The majority of the youngsters which are now quartered at the Mobile track have been entered in the eastern stakes. The same can be said of quite a number of the two-year-olds in the Tucker stable at Churchill Downs. No good line, therefore, can be obtained by this means on the horses which will race at the Louisville meeting, and which will campaign on the other western tracks.
