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KEENES SPLENDID YEARLINGS. New York, August 2S. Great interest is being shown by the turfmen at Sliecpshoad Bay in a contingent of James R. Keenes yearlings that ar6 being exercised on the Futurity course every day. They arrived a few days ago, arc fourteen in number and are being broken and trained by trainer Tom Green. Mr. Keene visits them frequently and they are well worthy of his attention, for a finer collection of young horses was never seen on tho Coney Island Jockey Clubs course. They are all colts, bred by Mr. Keene at his Castleton Stud, arrived iu good condition and are showing to great advantage in their light training exercises. Green has had a long experience with the Keene horses, having broken and prepared Peter Pan, Superman, Ballot, Colin ami other cracks before they were turned over to trainer James Howe, who guides their paces throughout their racing career. Green is delighted with his collection and, as he expresses it, "they look to be made to order." They could stand any amount of picking to pieces, for every one of them looks a model in himself in thoroughbred horse ilesb. Every morning the rails are lined with admirers as they step their preliminary paces. The expressions of praise are outspoken and many go so far as to predict another Keene year when the colts appear under silk in 190S. Green has not yet been furnished a full description oC their pedigrees and identity, but hls;:rJong connection with the Keene horses is causing him many guesses as to tlieir breeding. He trained Voter for his victory in the Metropolitan Handicap of 1897 and lias selected two or three handsome colts as having been sired by Voter.
