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i i | I i i | t | j , , , CANDIDATES FOR NEXT YEARS DERBY. English Opinion of the Promising Two-Year-Olds of 1910 Points to Few of Highest Class. Rigarding the merits of English prospective two-year-old cracks of this year, especially of those engaged in the Epsom Derby of Pill. The Field, if London, of a recent date, says: "At this time last year, with the exception, perhaps, of Whisk Broom and Yellow Slave, all the celebrities among our present-day three-year-old champions were known. This year the surroundings are quite different in connection with our new cntr.v. Chaos n-igns Mtprenie and search as one may it is iiiUM ssible to tiinl ■ stable and say that establishment shelters the winner of next years Derby. Perhaps the two-year-old that would be chosen at this date to take the highest honors of the turf would be Romeo, trained by 1 ■. Ilartigan at Weyhill. Moulded to pi rfection is this charming colt, secured by R. Miils at the disposal of the late Sir Daniel Coopers horses in training for 3.300 guineas. in eater Romeo is a hard bay. with a star on his billhead and white over his off fore and hind pasterns. He is not an ideal walker, but when galloping his action leaves absolutely nothing to lie desired, and altogether he tills the eye as a colt with immense possibilities. "Perhaps few two-year-olds are so backward as those trained by Aleck Tavlor at Matiton. as like his father before him he allows his juveniles ample time to harden and muscle up before he liegins the n.ost arduous pan of their training. If the stable docs not shelter any two-year-old offspring of Gal-licia. the dam of Payardo and Leaaberg lowing to the mare slipping twins to Isinglass in l.iOM. Ta lor has nevertheless charge of some nice youngsters, and if looks count for anything Mr. Fairie possesses in Cvllius. a two-year-old son of Cyllene and Gol-cottia. one that should prove to be a huge improvement u|hiii his sister. Highness. Quite as good looking as Leathern was at that same age. this youngster is a perfect aristocrat in appearance, with tin-advantage of having much more serviceable forelegs tkea his elder relative. "A uood chestnut in color, he possesses a wonderful neck and shoulders, a short, string back, great gitth. with feet and legs of the liest. and if he cannot use the latter to some tune it is no use ilepeud-ing upon Blake and shape. Whether he is an em-biyo Derby winner is not easy to say, but this I can vol. eli for, he does not impress one so effectively as did the magnificent Leinberg last year. Sceptics two-year-ohl daughter by Isinglass has not the classy carriage, neither does she till the eye as did her half sisters by Cyllenei .Maid of the Mist and Maid of Corinth, yet she is very nicely turned, aaaaasaiug tremendous power and good limbs. Whatever classic distinction awaits her splendid half-sister Maid of Corinth 1 question if such honors are in store for Sceptres pledge to Isinglass. "It is many .cars since Kingsclotv sheltered siicn a number of unpromising two-year-olds as those to be found located there this vear under the care of W. Waugh. Those belonging to the Duke of Portland SBd the Duke of West mi lister are much below the average that we expect to find coming up from such homes of the thoroughbred as Welbeck and Eaton and sired by such equine celebrities as Mrnic. St. Simon. William the Third. Isinglass. Ayrshire and Volodyovski. It is impossible to account for the unpromising looks of the Duke of Westminsters two ear-olds, as I believe the majority were reared in kildare. where his grace has established a stud farm on a palatial scale. In that respect, however. Hall Walker is not to be beaten at Tully. and this gentlemans two-year-olds bred at this famous stud are. as far as looks go. sure to earn gaud reputations, his two young Gallbaales holding easy lirsts on points, if not on actual merit. I allude to John MLorne. by that sire from Fair Jean, and Defiance, a brown daughter of Lady Smith. "Good as Deliance may be in appearance, her dam has thrown such a series of disappointing animals since she ioab-d Be Very Wise ten years ago that one cannot be too sanguine concerning the career of her two-year old daughter: at the same time the iilly is a good mover and is much liked by her trainer. John MLorne is a remarkably good-looking and btoodtfke brother to Moorcock and half-brother bv Isinglass to the disappointing Glazehrook. In make and shape it would he ditticult to fauld this really charming colt, which not only is grandly turned with perfect limbs, but he is of that good brown color which is so attractive to the eye. With all this it is impossible to picture John MLorne as a classical winner. If Beckhaiupton shelters nothing so good as Tressady and Sunbright there are. never-tluless. some vouiigsters of promise, and much is expected from the flaxen tailed chestnut son of Persimmon and Curlew. He is in all respects a racing like colt and pretty sun- to race with credit to himself and breeding. but by no manner of process can one picture him as a Derby winner. "A handsome colt too sheltered at Beckhampton House is Tullibardine. a goad colored bay son of St. Frusquin and Floors, with a small star on his forehead and possessing rare seojie. He is very like his sin- and may need time. S. Darling, needless to say. docs not lioliovo in hurr.v bag the young stock entrusted to his care and no ln.rses are better turned out than those coining from Beckhainpton House. When referring to this celebrated training establishment it is more than satisfactory to find the Duke of Devonshire with live two year-olds in training. They are all home bred, and a most charming till - is an" unnamed daughter of Cyllene and Claque, the dam of Fugleman. She is a picture of exquisite quality and should she steer clear of all trouble and make ordinary progress this tilly— which. I understand, is gifted with the nicest of action -cannot fail to race, and in the curcumstaiice I am astonished to tind she has not been more lih-erallv engaged, for though her name figures in S-v-eral of the most iaaaattaat juvenile events her classic liabilities arc limited to the Oaks."
