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FITZSIMMONS STRING WILL BE READY New York March I Horses of nil ages and of various abilities representing halt a doen owners constitute the stable lames Fitxsiinmons is prepar ¬ ing at Gravescml for the lirst spring meeting of the Southern Maryland Fair Association ar 1rince Geor ¬ ges 1ark near Howie The Southern Maryland Fair Associations track is situated midway be ¬ tween Baltimore and Washington and its cuniing reeling will inaugurate Hie eastern racing season the Jockey Club of Xew York having taken Howie into th1 fold last winter and assigned to the new track the dates which formerly were utilied by the lamestown Jockey flub flubTlie Tlie horses Mr Fitzsinrnous will race at Howie April 1 to 14 are tweutyow in number and are well advanced in training Filzsimnions has taken full advantage of the favorable weather for condition ¬ ing horses Xew York has had since the lirst of February And besides having a lit lot of racers for the opening meeting this New York trainer Will have two excellent Jockeys in the veteran MeCahcy and the apprentice McKeever McCaliey who has been with Fitzsintmois for many years is under contract this eason to the Quincy Stable his retainer being iOiK McKeever has worked himself ito condition by galloping horses this win ¬ ter terThirteen Thirteen or fourteen horses of the Quincy Stable which nt Trojan out to win the Futurity last Aug ¬ ust nt Saratoga are in the Fltzslminoiis stable but Trojan and Double Eagle are nat among them Thcv belong to a division of the stable tliat will rare in Kentucky and Canada this year under the iiianagenvent of Stephen Lawler And beside Law IiTs lot there are two other divisions of the Quincy stable OIK of which will be trained bv Edward 1helan and the other by Little Mike Daly Hoth of these contingents will race at Howie HowieUcadniast Ucadniast like Trojan a product of Henry T ixnards Hliie Uidge stud in Virginia is the best Known of the Qnincy stable horses Fitzsimnirns is training for the Howie meeting He won at all distances twoyearolds were asked to travel last Miison and Htzsiinmoiis is conlident he will hold Ms own in better than selling plater coniKiny over considerable distances of ground this year I lead tia l has broadened and thickened over winter Into one of the most pre ssessiiig looking of three yearolds lie is a big horse on short legs with reach and hct e and lie will surely manage weight ell Hest of all he is perfectly sound and he I likely to help make a name for Sir Wilfred his slr lioadmast will carry the colors of the Qiiincy stable In the best races run in Maryland for the next seven or eight weeks md then return to Xew York YorkWooden Wooden Shoes another of the Quincy string and Iho runnerup at Syracuse in the race which Ilich ard T Wilsons old campaigner Amalti established the new American record of I Vi for one mile has wintered famously and is one of the most for ¬ ward of the Fitzsimmoiis lot The six inches of snow that covered Gravesend track for week or ten days earlier in the month proved n great help tit Wooden Shoes whose legs are bail He will lie ready to race as soon as he gets to Maryland ami should prove useful in races of one mile and over Fitzsimmoiis thinks well also of Last Coins five yearold half Inother Andrew i sou of Disguise which was not at his best last season Andrew was laid up through the summer and fall with a bad ankle which seems to be all right just now Andrew will not perhaps go farther than seven furlongs but he has a quick turn of speed and if he races to his work he will take care of him ¬ self with fair class sprinters Besides there are a couple of promising threeyearold jimideos In the establishment Sem a son of Ogden and Fair Cath ¬ erine and Viceroy a son of Goldon Maxim and Lady Mill with which Fitzsimmoiis expects to win a imrse or two twoThe The twoyearolds of the stable are mainly Star Shoots Ogdens Migraines and Waterltoys re ¬ cruited from the breeding establishment of John E Madden at Hamburg Place Out of the Ogdens is a brother of The Masquerade the juvenile sen ¬ sation of the early Maryland meetings of last spring This fellow will be known to students of form as Costnmer and he is a ringer in conforma ¬ tion and marking for The Masqueradcr The veriest tyro would pick him as a near relative of The Masqucrader which is preparing ill the Henuing track for the Howie races Costnmer showed a bid of speed last fall and is a forward youngster this spring Two other Ogdens of promise are Tat tletale and Wayfarer the former a son of lov Xoie and the latter a son of Miss Angle They hav done as well as any youngsters at Gravcscnd GravcscndFitzimiiioiis Fitzimiiioiis tliinks highly of Xavigator a1 sou of Star Shoot and Ethel Lee This fellow is of the family of Meridian his dam being a granddam of K F Carmans famous Broomstick horse which won the Kentucky Derby in 1011 lie Is as quick as a cat and his trainer believes Ju will come t ham early
