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DON DIEGO GROWING NEW FEET. Belmont Horse Getting Cured at Nursery Six Oclocks Trouble. Lexington, Ky., September 27. Don Diego, the four-year-old son of Henry of Navarre Bella Donna, is running in the grass at Nursery Stud again and when he grows a couple of new feet in front, he will be sent back to the races. That will be about the middle of next March. Super-intenelent Ed Kane of Mr. Belmonts farm says that this big chestnut horse is sound in every other respect. His feet are shelly and have always been, yet he believes lhat if his heels had been trimmed down until he could stand naturally cn his fretgs, this trouble could have- been obviated, that he would not have split one hoof as a two-year-old nid two more of them this year. "Don Diego is a fast horse." said Mr. Kane today, "and as a yearling he did enough to encourage the belief that through him Henry of Navarre would earn a groat reputation in the stud. As a two-year-old he won once out of seven starts ahd was not raced as a three-year-old. We had him at the farm until the end of the Benning meeting last December. By that time he had grown a new foot and was. sent to Washington to go to the southern winter quarters with the remainder of the string in Mr. Whalens charge. He elid well and we all felt much encouraged when he won his first start at Benning in April. Really, I thought, he was a goad thing for the Carter Handicap and you know he was only beaten a length and a half ami a nose by Gloriller and Roseben in that race after getting off poorly. That bad foot bothered him when he ran unplaced in the Excelsior Handicap and he was sent along slowly until the Test Handicap at Gravescnd toward the end of July. Then it was that he spread the other foot and they sent him down to me again. He is doing well." Another distinguished invalid at Nursey Stud is Six OClock. the bav filly by Sir Dixon Teas Over dam of Dick Welles, Ort Wells. Security and Dick Finnell. Sir. Belmont entrusted this filly to the training of Fred Burlew and In her trials she showed phenomenal speed, but she is still a maiden. Burlew is of the opinion that she is rheumatic and that her trouble is largely muscular. He sent Iter to the farm six or seven weeks ago with instructions that she be "starved to a shadow" and then sent back to him. She is getting nothing but grass these tlays. It is a unique treatment, but Burlew has faitli in It. He says he so cured more than one good race horse similarly affected.
