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PROSPECTS ARE PROMISING OUTLOOK FOR SEASON OF BRILLIANT RACING IN KENTUCKY IS EXCELLENT. Cream of American Stables Expected t Participate in Sport in Blue Grass Country Stabling Problem at Lexington Already Giving Concern; Lexington, Ky., March IS. Superintendent Ross lias tiie Kentucky Association track in good condition and the liorses quartered on the grounds, approximating 200, are getting their gallops regularly. Barring Wednesday and Thursday, -when the weather was extremely cold, the track was the mecea for many people every morning this week and it will continue so in good weather until the racing season is on and over, for there are scores and scores of Loxingtonians, business and professional men, who have a fondness for the thoroughbred and delight to see the racers at exercise. Such men get quite as much pleasure from the formation of conclusions as to the relative merits of the horses in their training as they do from tho actual racing. Nothing in the way of speed has been attempted as yet. It is a bit too early. Quarters in about 20. some possibly in 2.", has been the regulation clip for breezing up to now. The coming week the galloping distances will be increased as a general proposition and some will be asked to work a little livelier. The health of the. horses is uniformly good and, taking them as a whole, they are a better-appearing -collection than has been observed here, at the beginning of the training season in some years. Among he two-year-olds, taking their yearling trials, the manner in which they have wintered and their present appearance as a line, there are some promising racing prospects, and later along good reports of their preparation may be expected. Promising three-year-olds, however, are not numerous here. The bulk of the ritoney offered Tor this division at the Kentucky tracks this spring will it now seems, be earned by horses trained elsewhere than Lexington. The trio of four-year-olds most in the public eye hero are U. IL Andersons Latonia Derby winner, Joe Morris: Johnson N. Camdens Boola Boola, second in the Latonia Derby and a bang-up fourth to Donau, Joe Morris and Fighting Bob in the Kentucky Derby, and C. L. Harrisons Waldo, great as a two.-year-old, but on the shelf with a bad leg last year. Joe Morris and Waldo are stabletnates in tiie barn of Jack Baker, and Jack Keene again lias Boola Boola under his eye. These three have been running out in blue grass paddocks and are in excellent physical condition. There seems to be little doubt that Waldo will stand training, though as yet lie has not been asked to do any work. His preparation will be slow and careful. Aside from the natural anxiety concerning the outlook for racing .on the New York tracks this season, horsemen here have more mental ease than for some time past. The prospects for a great season in Kentucky are alluring and offerings in Caiuida are .attractive. Soft spots for mediocre horses will lie few. it is true, but the man With the horse of stake qualities will have little worry about the feed bill this year. The manner in which the stakes for Lexington, Louisville and Latonia have filled is an Index to what may be expected in the way of sport in Kentucky. Applications for stable room here, at Louisville and Latonia are already being made by horsemen at the southern tracks and by some who are in the east, and this is bound to be taken as an Indication that the sport is to be on bigger and lietter lines than it has been for many years in this state. 11. F. Carman, for instance, has made application from New York to Secretary G. D. Wilson for forty stalls at the local track. In Meridian, the three-year-old bay son of Broomstick and Sue Smith, he lias a formidable candidate for the Blue Grass Stakes and the Kentucky Derby and Latouia Derby, and he likewise has numerous candidates for other stakes to be run at the Kentucky meetings. Stable room here is limited and the question of quarters, for all the liorses that are coming here is already on" the verge of a problem. The matter will finally be put up to Racing Secretary William IT. Shelley, who will come from Juarez the first week in April. A. D. Steele and his son, jockey Steele, returned this week from Tampa, bringing with them Easy Life. Gilvedear and other liorses they have raced at the Florida track during the winter. Jockey A. Thomas arrived from California last Sunday and is now exercising the horses of the Camden stable. Red Mark, Shoes, Pleasant Girl and Revelation, broodmares belonging to Irving II. Wbcatcroft, were shipped tliis week to Barney Schreibers Woodlands Farm, Bridgeton, Mo., to lie bred. Tho first-named three go to the court of Sain and the last named, now in foal to Disguise, will be mated to Jack At-kin. The latest foals at the St. James Stud are by St. Savin a hay colt out of Carsona and a bay filly from Tranquil. At John D. Carrs farm there are three foals by Dick Welles, two of them colts from J. B. Respess mares. Lass o Laugden and Lunette, and the other a filly out of Pat Dunnes Please. Thomas Piatts Edith Mc dam of Righteasy lias a tine chestnut filly by Cesarion.
