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SPEEDING UP TRAINING AT GRAVESEND. Old Track Alive with Horses Every Mor;iing — Juveniles Not Being Worked too Strenuously. By Kd Cole. New York. April 7. -Horses are beginning to show improved work at Oravesend. The old track is alive with horses these spring mornings. Trainers are as busy as lie. s from an early hour until lunch time, prepartag their charges for the coming campaign. All eyes are turned to the two-year-olds when they appear on the track. As a whole, they are a good-looking band, and some of them ale showing speed ii!iexi«-cted. considering the condition of the track. James Fitzsimmons has two or three that have turned three-eighths in less than thirty six seconds. Two of them are especially attractive. Their names for the time being ale secrets of the stable. Hick Miller has a youngster that has cov-rcl three-• •ighths in thirty-six; and Sand Marsh. the winners of the Baumonok and Excelsior Handicaps at Jamaica last year, is doing so well that indications point to his being prepared for Jamaica stakes this year. Sand Marsh is an early horse, lie rounds to .piickly and will tin.|iiestiotiab!y be fit for the opening of the New York season, if not before. Youngsters Not Being Pressed. The majority of the younger division of horses at Qraveseai are not Iwing pressed too strenuously, their principal task living half miles in almut fifty -five seconds and the first three-eighths around thirty-eight. Few of the horses will be seen before Jamaica opens. Otto Rasch will have nothing ready before Jamaica, while Sandy McNaughton will ship a few to Havre de Orace almut April 12. Fitzsimmons will also start operations at Havre de Oraee. Jack Mc-Cinnis intends showing the Kershaw colors first at Jamaica as well as J. McMauus and Morris Welsh, who has charge of the Barkvale Stable. Dick Miller may take his band to Havre de iracei Where Sand Marsh may have a race or two to key him up for Jamaica. -"He may come back this year a real good horse again." said David Cideoii. "He is not too old. In fact, it would not surprise me a bit to see him return to almost his best form." Mr. Oideon is not the only horseman to express an opinion in that strain. All re|K rts from Kentucky, where Roamer is now located, are favorable st far as the health of the "little bull dog" is concerned. McNaughton Has a Handy String. Sandy McNaughton «T:1inis to have a handy string of ten horses. They are: Riverdale 3 Riverside 3 Hudson 3 Manhattan 2 King James colt .... 2 James F. Cttmmings.. 2 Shandon 2 Augusta L 2 Billy Humphrys 2 Jack Atkin colt 2 The two unnamed colts Sandy will name after two intimate friends. He is hiding their identity until the horses are entered. It will be ji sort of surprise party for his associates. S|iey Pearl, the stallion that King George has 4 donated to the Canadian Breeding Bureau, will be in great demand, and if premitted to be mated with thoroughbreds of the Dominion, his services will tie at a premium. To have Spearmint and Persimmon blood at command Canadian horsemen will uo doubt be anxious to get the opportunity to breed to such exceptionally blue blood. John F. Ryan does not yet know where the Kings stallion will be located. He will, no doubt, be consigned to one of the most appropriate positions for strengthening and improving the remounts of Canada. Being but four years old. he should have a season of unusual length for a bureau horse, as most of those in the. Dominion were advanced in years when they were donated.
