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WILSON STRING IN PROMISING CONDITION. New York. April ■.. — A long line of thoroughbreds can be seen daily at the Belmont Park track and ■ the adjacent roads. The race horses no longer follow the straw rides under the sheds. Instead, the soft roads aud boulevards are now the galloping grounds. It is on the roads and on the outside of the track that the race horses are receiving their secondary preparation. The finishing touches will come along in two weeks over the main courses, for in a little more than six weeks the sounds of "boots and saddles" will be heard at Belmout Park. The first racing matinee will be held at Ccdarhurst on April 20. This is a hunt meeting under amateur auspices. A month later to the dav. May 20, Belmont Park will swing open its gates. The most important string of thoroughbreds at Belmont Park at present is that owned by R. T. Wilson. He will race a greater number of horses this year than he did last season. Mr. Wilson has had such great luck with the Madden thoroughbreds for several seasous that his purchases of yearlings of recent years has been confined nearly exclusively to Hamburg Place youngsters. Trainer Tom Healey. who always has kept Mr. Wilson well up in the winning list of owners, has his horses well advanced in physical condition. Healey is in the first division of American race horse trainers, and iu previous years his horses have generally won the lions share of the overnight purses at the spring meetings. As he has some promising material in the lot. many trainers predict that Healey will win many purses at Belmont Park this spring.
