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NEWS FROM THE METROPOLITAN TRACKS. Early Winter Unfavorable for Training of the Coming Two -Year-Olds. New York, December 30. The early winter has been an unfavorable one, so far as concerns its effect on any especial attention to the coming two-year-olds quartered at the metropolitan tracks, and it appears probable that the youngsters will need all the possible benefit that may accrue to them through the new two-year-old racing rule, and probably more. If there should be another late spring, such as prevailed last spring, the baby racers at the Long Island tracks will again be late in their preparation to go to the post in condition at all acceptable to their trainers. Even before the cold weather set in there was a good deal of rain. .George Odom has had Marse Henry, the three year-old son of Ben Brush Nuns Cloth, fired for s badly bowed tendon. This horse, which probably figured in more airtight finishes than any other racer in the year just coming to a close, has been somewhat of a disappointment, in view of his royal breeding. As a two-year-old lie raced creditably for a time in the colors of J. N. Camden, but was unplaced in the Futurity. He was sold at the end of his two-year-old career to John E. Madden, who disposed of him to the Brighton Stable. This year he seemed to be improving toward the close of the season, when he was cut down and also bowed a tendon which had already bean under suspicion. Some supporters of Little Nephew were rather sorely disappointed by his third to Refugee and Radiant Flower at Havana Tuesday. But it is evident the gelding is far from the form he displayed when he used to chase Old Rosebud home in the year that they were both two-year-olds. Possibly this old association may have led some to overrate the Strode gelding, and yet one bears in mind that such a horse as Itoamer was underrated because of his two-year-old defeats by Old Rosebud. It is a matter of fact that the late AYoodford Clay sold the phenomenal gelding Itoamer to Andrew Miller because he was so easily beaten by Old Rosebud. Roamer trained on and was at one time the fastest horse in training, while the Applegate champion broke down in the AVithers Stake at Relmont Park.
