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PRINCE IMPERIAL IN WELSHS HANDS. New York. September 10. Prince Imperial, for which Robert F. Little paid John Marklein 2,000 a few days ago. is now in tlie stable of Thomas Welsh at Gravesend, which is crowded with yearlings belonging to August Belmont and the Newcastle Stable. Mr. Little considers Prince Imperial light in flesh, but hopes to win a race with the colt lu the near future. This new recruit to racing is a young gentleman of means, who likes tlie thoroughbred. He is in racing to stay. "The only reason I have no more horses running under my colors this fall." be says, "is tliat I could not buy anything lirst class last spring. That was dis-apKinting in one respect, but encouraging in another. The fact that persons who owned good horses did not care to part with them indicated that the sport was in healthy condition. I cant say yet what tlie yearlings I bought last spring may amount to. because they have not been tried out. John Hynes has broken them, but he has not asked them to show anything in the way of speed. I intend to keep tlie ones that show best and get rid of the bad ones." Thomas Welsh will not have so -manv yearlings after he gets through trying out the youngsters lie has undertaken to train for Mr. Belmont and the Newcastle Stable. Mr. Welsh has no time for bad horses. He says It costs as much to lioard poor ones as it does world-boaters and the poor ones cannot earn their keep. Mr. Welsh iikes most of the youngsters under his charge, but he figures that he will weed out about half of them before snow flies.
