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PROMISING YEARLINGS DEAD. . New York, December 4. R. A. Smith left yesterday for New Orleans, where his horses are already quartered, and he will assume the management of the stable on his arrival. Mr. Smith, instead of attending the races at Washington, spent two weeks hunting in New Brunswick. Just before leaving New York he received a telegram announcing the loss of two of the best yearlings in his stable. One was the Cesarion Insinuate filly, and the other a brown colt by Gold Heels Sanctissima, both of which he purchased at the yearling sales last summer. He still has three yearlings at New Orleans which will be raced after the first of the year, but none of them is as promising as the two that died. In speaking of his loss just before liis departure Mr. Smith said: "Im starting the winter season some loser. .Both of these youngsters showed me a quarter in twenty-three seconds, over the training track at Belmont Park, and I had reason to expect great ! s : s i i : 1 things of them next season. The same morning Green Seal, which has plenty of speed, stepped the same quarter in 233, and Notasulga went along in about the same time. "There was nothing to choose between the two, so far as the trial was coueerued, but the filly was the.better looking youngster, and after the trial I refused an offer of ,000 for her. I bought her at the fall sale out of a consignment sent by J. D. Luke of Lexington for 50. The colt cost me 250."
