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THE WINGFIELD HORSES TO COME EAST. Honeywood, Polistena and Celesta to Invade the Kentucky and New York Tracks. Honeywood. the four-year-old English-bred stal lion by Poly melus — Honey Bird, that was imported by George Wingfleld for a reported price of 5,000. is going to campaign on the metropolitan track the coming summer. At first it was thought that the Nevada turfman had secured the English stake winuer to head his stock farm, but trainer George II. Strate announces that Honeywood will be raced after he is mated with six or eight mares in the early spring. Honeywood has created a deal of interest since he arrived at the Pleasanton track. He looked bad after the hard voyage across the Atlantic and across the continent, but Strate has him looking fit now and great things are expected of the English horse, which is bred in the purple. George Wingfields colors are expected to play an inqiortaiit part on the turf next season. Train-r Strate is handling thirty head at the half-mile Pleasanton track and he reports that they are all doing well. Sixteen of the band are yearlings and Celesta is the star of the older horses. The stable will o| en an extensive campaign at the New Orleans meeting on the first of the new-year and then go up through Kentucky and New York. Strate is dickering for a capable jockey to do the riding. He is carrying on negotiations to secure the little apprentice. Brazel, who made such a creditable impression at the exposition meeting. Strate Is waiting to have some amendments made in the hoys contract. The performers in the Wingfleld string are: American-Bred Horses. Celesta, b. m, 5, by Sempronius — Rezia. Scarlet Oaks. b. f, 4. by Dick Welles— Glena. Star Shooter, ch. g. 3. by Star Shoot — Olga Nethersole. Skeer Face, b. c, 2, by Hippodrome — Fleeing Venus. Mary Jay. b. f. 2. by Hippodrome — Calyx. Washoe Belle, br. f, 2, by Sweep — Grace Commoner. Tze-hsi, b. f, 2. by Voter — Fair Empress. American Yearlings. Chestnut filly by Duke of Ormonde — Maid of the Mist. Bay colt by Duke of Ormonde — Compensate. Bay filly by Duke of Ormonde — Angleta. Chestnut colt by Duke of Ormonde — Dora I. Bay colt by Duke of Ormonde — Miss Martha. Bay colt by Orsini — Tenebrae. Black Ally by Orsini — Zenobia. Chestnut colt by Duke of Ormonde — Rose of China. Bay Ally by Ossary — Chaste. Brown filly by Montgomery— Marion Rose. Brown colt by Joe Carey — Afamada. English-Bred Horses. Honeywood, b. c. 4. by Polymelus — Honey Bird. Polistena, b. f. 3. by Polymelus — Imola. Gray coll. 1. by Gray Ieg — Bernina. by St. Serf. Bay colt. 1. by Golden Rod — Isinglass mare. Brown filly. 1, by Minoru — Slave Trade, by St. Serf. Bay filly. 1. by William the Third — Free and Easy, by Melton. Bay filly, 1, by Dark Ronald— Kiki, by Matchmaker. Trainer Strate will make his pick from this band and will likely have about fifteen horses to invade the east. It will make up the biggest string of young horses that has left California to race in the east for many a day. Strate says there is no truth in the report that Wingfleld is interested in the Tia Juana race track and will race there. — San Francisco Chronicle.
