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PROMISING JUVENILES AT BENNING. Washington. D. C. March 23. — Two of the smartest two-year-olds training at Benning for the spring races in Maryland are in the stable of William Brooks. One of them, a brown colt by Solitaire II. — Lily Gelding, is the property of William P. Burch. and the other, an unnamed chestnut by Ultimus — Speedmas. belongs to Samuel Ross. The Solitaire colt is a close coupled youngster with a fine middle piece, admirably furnished quarters and strong, slanting shoulders, a youngster that suggests Voor-hees and a half dozen other horses Solitaire II. has sent to tin- races in the last ten or fifteen years. The Ultimas colt is a youngster of considerable bulk set up on short legs, his great length underneath and short back being his most conspicuous points of attraction. He is an extremely comely colt in front. His head is small, but splendidly Shaped, his jowls set wide apart and his eyes full and mild. Both these youngsters have speed. They showed it last fall when Brooks broke them and they are well along toward racing condition now. Brooks expects to have one or both of them at the starting gate on the first day of the Bowie meeting. Mr. Burch is also the owner of a colt by Helmet that attracts more than passing notice. This is a brown and his dam was Lady Chiswick. He is a bigger framed youngster than either of the other two. solidly moulded in front and handsomely quartered, with a fine set of legs. Abe Martin. Mr. Burch calls the Helmet colt, and he believes he wili run fast, although he was not asked to show as much last fall when the youngsters were broken as were the sons of Ultimas and Solitaire II. The only other two-year-old in the stable is a brown colt that will be known to fame as Crank. This one is a son of Celt. He was bred by Arthur Hancock in Albemarle county. Virginia, and his dam was Cross-patch, a Nursery-bred daughter of Hastings and Lucy Cross. Crank has the bulk of the Celts and plenty of reach. He will bear the silks of Mr. Ross and it is more than probable that the patrons of Bowie will see considerable of him in the course of the first ten days of the coming meeting. Brooks has wintered Corsica for Mr. Batch and Celtabel for Mr. Ross. Corsican. a son of Golden Maxim and Personal, began last season with a victory at Havre de Grace, but Mr. Burch lost him after a selling race at limlico and did not get him back again until fall. He was not carrying as much flesh then as he carried in the spring, but Brooks has built him up again and he is a fine-looking four-year-old. Corsican will be the Burch representative in the Inaugural Handicap on the opening day at Bowie.
