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EASTERN HORSES WELL ADVANCED. New York, February S. Eastern horsemen arc preparing for the . racing season. Long lines of racers are trotting and cantering under the stable sheds at the Sheepshead Itay track every day. The trainers have been taking advantage of the ojten weather and have been rushing their charges along for the racing meeting, which starts in April at Jamestown and Pinilico. . W. H. Karrick, trainer for H. K. Knapp and Francis Hitchcock, has nineteen horses, one of the biggest strings at Sheepshead Day. He will start his campaign early this year. The first of March will find him and his charges ready to move to Pinilico. This will give him six weeks of work over tlie Baltimore course, and his horses will be ready for the lirst bugle call. Fashion Plate, winner of the Metropolitan Handicap last spring, has completely recovered front the lameness that sent hiriiiilutO.VetirenufiTtdurlng the-height of the last racing season. During his vacation from lacing Fashion Plate has improved wonderfully in appearance. So has Blackfoot. August Belmonts horses, in charge of trainer Louis Feustel. at Belmont Park", are under saddle, and jog several miles each morning on the straw ride in the enclosure. The three-year-olds, Footprint and Whist, are training handsomely, and their present appearance indicates that the stake division will find them doughty rivals for high honors during the season of 1911. Both of these colts, together with Trap Bock, Watervalo and Flint Rock, are engaged in the Belmont Stakes to le run this spring. The latter three wits are wintering in charge of John Wlialen at Garnett, S. C, and will lie shipped north in April. Don Diego, Practical and Asticot are the only other horses that have raced at present quartered at Mr. Belmonts Long Island establishment. The former did not start during the past two years, but lie is doing all tiiat could be desired, and the chances are that he will face the barrier this spring.
