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NEW YORK HORSES BACKWARD. Ken Tert Aptii 7. — One hundred and fifty Of more louse.- V.ie preparing lor the coming sea-ou -racing at the Sheepshead Bay track, but few ol them «ill be ready for the spring meeting at Havre de Grace. . ... , Havre de .race will have to depend upon Wash iiigtou and the track- further south for its horses ; tiii- spring. Rough weather i- responsible tor the backwardness of the Sheepshead Bay colony. Be Cause of snow and ice and a soil of live inches deep iu frost it was Impossible to put the barrows on the Coney Island Jockey Clubs course until a fortnight SgO, and it is onlv within the la-t t"n days thai there ha- been anythiug approaching real work. Not a hoi-e at the Hay has galloped half a mile • ill oil seconds since last fall. The slahles rli.it will go south are those of George M Odoin. P. Maimis and Max Hirsch, and the only horses of these outfits with whose lorui the racing public is iu any way familiar are the three-year old Superintendent and orotund, which belong to ■ Maunlx, and HJrschs platers Margaret Meise and Bunch of Keys. , , .,, Superintendent is an Ogden colt ol -tocky build and high speed, which improved steadily with racing last season. He has developed considerably ovci winter Mannix is pointing Superintendent for the Prank ne-s Handicap, at Pimlico, and if he acquits him self "itli credit in that race he will start in the Metropolitan Handicap, the prospective feature ol the Westchester Associations card for the opening dav at Belmont Park.
