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HORSES IN TRAINING AT BENNING. Albert Simons Receives Band of Whitney Yearlings from Broolidale and Has Largest String. Washington, D. C, December 20. The Benning track continues to be a favorite winter training ground for handlers of thoroughbreds. Already there are a number of horses on hand and many of them are in active training preparing for the race meeting of the Charleston Fair and Racing Association, which is to begin January 10. Albert Simons at tills time has the most important stable at the old course, having just received a shipment of fourteen of the Harry Payne Whitney yearlings from Brook-dale. The youugstcrs were brought down by Tom Green, who for years was foreman for James Rowo when he trained the James R. Keene string so successfully. The trip from the New Jersey farm was uneventful and all of the youngsters were unloaded in good condition. It is intended by Mr. Simons to fit them for the early meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico iu the spring. They are destined to race on this side of the Atlantic and, beginning at Pimlico, they will be ready for anything that is offered in a racing way during 1012. Early in the year Mr. Whitney purchased almost the entire yearling output of James R. Keenes Castleton Farm, and those that are at Benning now are a particularly well-turned lot. In addition to the yearlings, Mr. Simons has the two-year-old bay filly Moisant, by Hamburg Ascension, and the chestnut filly Eton Blue, by Hamburg Blue Girl. William Garth, the Virginia horseman who, for many seasons has been a Benning regular, has not yet "taken up his quarters, but he has made his reservations and promises that he will be along with the largest string that he ever trained in the spring. At present he has the horses at his farm and they will run out until ho decides to begin his early spring training. He reports that all of the horses and he has fifty to train are doing exceedingly well. W. P. Burch, who has just returned from Charles-tiu, reports that the work on the new track is progressing rapidly, and, although recently a spell of bad weather bad been a serious handicap, the course would surely be ready for the advertised opening. Dr. J. S. Tyree has shipped eight yearlings from Lexington. Ky. They were purchased from O. W. Moore and are all by McGee and a likely looking lot. They are broken and are galloping along in a way to indicate that they could be fitted for the races on short notice. At present the principal business at hand for the trainers is the preparations for Charleston, and every morning there are several under saddle showing really good work. Not a few of the horses that will winter at Benning will bo reserved for the Pimlico meeting and the colony will be swelled shortly after the holidays by a number of new strings. Max Hirsch Is one that is at Benning now. He has Taboo and Thirty Forty. Both are looking well and should be ready for another good season on the turf when they aro wanted.
