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J. S. TYREES RACING PROSPECTS. Virginia -Bred Colt Sea Gull Expected to Redeem Himself This Year — Some Likely Youngsters. Baltimore, Md.. March 21.— Dr. J. S. Tyree expects to show a three-year-old of parts during the first fortnight of next month in Sea Gull, a Yirgin-ia-bred sou of Sea King — Toots, that proved something of a disapp oini nnnt last year. About this time last spring, it may be recalled. Sea Cull was the fastest worker among the two-year-olds at Benning, Ultimatum not excepted. And when he made his f ir-1 appearance at Havre de Brace the horse folks, who knew of his fast work at Benning. wire confident that he would beat anything in Maryland. Bnt Sea Gull diil not win li is first race, nor liis second, or his third. In fact, he did not earn a set of brackets until he got to Canada. And at no time last year did he run to the promise of his Benning trials. It developed last fall that the brown colt was suffering from a blind splint, which Dr. Henry J. McCarthy baa apparently treated successfully. No colt preparing for the Bowie meeting at Benning is going better today. Sea Gull is better coupled, stouter as to his underpinning and altogether a more prepossessing horse than his brother King Neptune, and B. B. Larrick. who is training the Tyree string this spring, is confident he will make good. He will run in races for three-year-olds and three-year-olds and over at Bowie as part of his preparation for the , 000 Preakness Stakes, the Maryland Jockey Clubs banner event for three-year-olds, and if he makes good at Pimlico he will go up the line in the Derbys in the Canadian circuit. Program for King Neptune. All of Sea lulls relatives of racing age in the Tjree barn, his brother. King Neptune; a two-year-old son of Celt — Toots that will be known to fame as Jack of Spades, and tin- mare Celto. a laughter of Celt — Toots, will race at Bowie. There is a yearling in the barn from the same mare that will not. however. The Jockey Club does not permit yearling racing. King Neptune probably will make his initial appearance as a four -year-old in the Bowie laangaral Handicap, a seven-eighths gallon out of the chute, for three-y-ear-olds and over. And this race will be his first public trial for a Canadian campaign. The crowd at Bowie on April 2 will see i better looking horse when King Neptune comes to the post for his first effort as a four-year-old than the crowd at Havre tie Grace saw when he made his three -year-old debut last spring. Celto, always an early mare, lias wintered splendidly. She is carrying more flesh than usual, but it is the hard sort that wont melt down. Three or four stiff gallons will put her on edge. She will be another of the Tyree starters in the Inaugural Handicap. It is Dr. Larricks intention to point Carbide, another Celt, for the longer-distance races of the Southi rn Maryland Agricultural Associations program. Carbide has the reputation of being a sprinter, but only because he has not attempted to do any running in considerable distance races. He will have to run over a longer distance of ground hereafter and Dr. Tyree feels that he may as well get used to it at Bowie. May Become Another Kewessa. Tin- stables three-year-old maiden for the Snath-em .Maryland meeting is Billy McGoe, a son of McGee, anil a horse that strikingly suggests his brother Kewessa. Billy has not yet run to the promise of his two-year-obi work, but the stable is not discouraged. Kewessa was a four-year-old before lie I hewed anything worth while, and he seems to » getting better as the years roll along. Tyree bat a string of eight two-year-olds, all of which he picked out himself from the yearlings of last year at the farms of Charles Moore and other borseaara in Kentucky. Probably the best of the band, a colt by Sweep, is a bit out of sort--. with a blase shoaMer, hut the others an- going right along. It is safe to predict that noiio will miss tin- Howie milting, although some ma be ready for the colors earlier than others. The youngsters are by McGee, Bargeaaaeter, Sweep, stalwart and Celt, Baigomasters representatlre is a close coupled chestnut filly, with legs like iron.
