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HELIOS CENTER OF INTEREST AT LEXINGTON. I. xingtna. Ky.. February 25.- w H. Karrick. fralner of iln II. K Rnapp and I It Hitchcock homes, thai are being wintered al Aiken. 8 C, bas written to Superintendent James P. I!n« of the Ki i in,-K- Association track here, asking thai twentj one stalls be rem rved for his b trees as he expects i.i ship i liem here soon to prepare them for spring raring In Kentucky, in the Karrick snii,- are ibe Derbj candidates Yankee Notions and Palanquin, which were two liiii i-lass two-year-obis lasl year. and which ina ml no small figure in Ihe Churchill Downs rlassic ioi three-year-olds. Their firs! stake engagement nf the year wlH be in the Bloegrass Siai.e iir the Lexington spring meeting, and they will in- hroogbi here express!] for ibis contest, which as usual will serve as ■ preliminary to the Kent tick j Derby. In this st.-ik- thej probably will met t Helios and Hawthorn, the preseni Derby favorites. and as pi. -i. -tii-ally all of the other I i-rb candidates are also engaged for this stake, the race, with good track ami wenttier, will excite keen intereol as -ji bag the first definite line on tim contestants in I .-■ 1 1 i -- iiies great race. Yankee Notkms is a half -brother to the great filly sprite, which laid yemr won tbe Bloegrass Stakes and tbe Ashland oaks n, the Knapp colors. Helios, which every Ulue Trass iportnman is r • I — . ■ iniei ii.ntiib-n: will u in the Kentockj Derby, has in-ill brought io the track from the farm of bis = owner. J. N. Camden, where he wintered, and i is in nter of Interest for turfmen and visitors. Al i ways a small horse. Helios- height b.i- been the sub l ject of much discussion. To si itie tbe question ln trainer "Tiny" Keeziek. who lias been handling the Il. Camden horses while trainer Jack Keene has been [,„ tl Juarez, measured tbe coh list week and found nl liin io be slightly under fifteen hands two inches. ■s. However, Helios has spread and tunneled grandly ly since last year, and is what is railed a big little i.- horse. Tbe Lexington contingent is already eager to to Wiiger that Helios will beat Hawthorn, which is said id to be the idol of the Louisville public. There is ■ two-year-old filly in the stable of How iv aid Oois : i t h.. track which affords a strong illns-i is- ration of the persistence with which a -white or or gray color will come down by heredity in noiaes s The Illy is the -mly gray at the track. Her dam. "- the famous mare. Turtle Dove, was ■ gray, and the ": latter was by Teuton, a chestnut borne, owl of ". of Mis- Austen, ■ liiay mare, and she was by Faraday. y- a gray stallion. K. Walsh was here last week to look at his two-year-oM L Illy by Dick Welles Noon, that has been running oat at the farm of John t.irr. Mr. Walsh thinks thoroughbreds would rt netter if no attempt „ was mode to develop them early, and this iillv was g therefore not broken as a yearling. lima, the well known plater In the stable of T. C C. McDowell, will ni.it be trained this rear, bat wi:i l„. be -eni m the st Mil.
