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GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY TRAINING GROUNDS GROUNDSLouisville Louisville Ky February KirrTraiucrs at Dong las Park are much taken with he appearance this year of Darknight the fiveyearold Plaudit gelding which W J Young is pointing for the Clark Han ¬ dicap While he won twice last season as a four yearold the son of Plaudit was not nearly so much iu the limelight as lie was the year previous when several of his races marked him a promising horse Darknight has wintered splendidly and Jf he meets with no training mishap he willmake Ids first start in an overnight race at Lexington which preliminary racing will fit him to meet his engagement in the Clark Handicap HandicapA A filly that appears to have improved at Churchill Downs is the sister to Fountainblue Twilight Queen in F A Forsytbes stable In the winter of 1908 and 100 Twilight Queen was a smart filly at Oak ¬ land Both owner Forsythe and trainer Colston ex ¬ pect much from Twilight Queen this season as they believe the sister to Fountainblue will improve with age and right now few horses in training outlook this handsome young mare She has grown and spread out greatly siuce her retirement last season While she is a filly with an abundance of speed she always ran stoutly at the end of her races as a two and threeyearold which seems to indi ¬ cate a liking for a long route routeAnother Another fouryearold at Churchill DQWHS which looks as though she will be a useful filly this season Is Sorrowful which has just been taken up after nearly a years rest by Louis Tauber trainer of the Henderson Hogan stable at the local track The Missouribred filly has done little racing since she ran in the Los Angeles Oaks last March when she finished second to Mary Davis and in front of eight other fillies including the highclass Rose Queen Before going to the coast and in the fall of her twoyearold form Sorrowful was a frequent winner on the Kentucky tracks and was one of the stars of Barney Schreibers western stable She has grown greatly during her long retirement and trainer Timber regards her as now entirely sound and looks for her to be a good winner for Henderson llogan in 110 110Tauber Tauber thinks he will have little trouble in getting her ready to go to the post at the coming New Louisville Jockey Club spring meeting as she was never a hard filly to train At Latonia last fall Schreiber said he would much like to have Sorrowful for a broodmare when her racing days are over and so the Louisville racing firm can sell the good filly when she finally quits the turf The Missouri breeder has great faith in the daughters of Baunockburn as producers and Sorrowful is one of the best fillies the sire of Horace E and Dr Gard ¬ ner has yet sent to the races hence his desire to acquire her when her turf career is at an end
