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OLD ROSEBUD IN THE EAST Great Gelding with Other Apple-gate Racers at Gravesend. Will Be Prepared for Eastern Campaign Instead of Racing On Kentucky Tracks. New York, December 3. W. E. Applegates stable, including Old Rosebud, is quartered at Gravesend for the winter. Visitors to the track never fail to visit the barn, in which is stabled the "miracle horse," as Old Rosebud has been called since his remarkable "come back" this year after it was thought lie would never race again. Old Rosebud is not a picture horse, nor is he an ugly looking one, as some have been inclined to call him. He has a plain head, which shows coarseness just beloW the eyes, and it is not as small as some critics might wish, but apart from this it Is a great mistake to call Old Rosebud ugly looking. He has a clean, bloodlike neck well laid botween rangy and oblique shoulders; his withers are fine and rather high, which, give a somewhat lean appearance to his forehand, but he has an excellent barrel, good depth through the heart region and immensely powerful loin, quarters, gnskius and fore-arms, and an abundance of lung space. In short, he is a splendidly balanced thoroughbred with such balance and racing outlines as might well account for his wonderful racing prowess. The great geldings pedigree is of the best, tracing back in the male line to Uncle. Star Shoot. Isinglass, Isonomy and Sterling, while on Uncles dam side the line runs through The Niece, by Alarm Jaconet, hf Leamington Maggie B. B., by Australian Madeline, by Boston Magnolia, by Glen-coe. Turning to Old Rosebuds dam, Ivory Bells, by that wonderful race horse and sire, Himyar. sire of Domino, Correction and other racers of Htrictlj high class, and Himyars sire was the great race horse anil sire, Alarm, by Eclipse Maud, by Stockwell. The wintering of the Applegnte racers in the east leaves the impression that Old Rosebud arid his stableinates will be campaigned over the Maryland and New York tracks next year, instead of beginning in Kentucky as in former years. It is certain that Frank Weir intends to pit Old Rosebud against the eastern stars in the big stakes to be decided at Belmont Park and Saratoga, for the great gelding has lnen nominated to the Suburban, Metropolitan and Toboggan Handicaps at Belmont Park and to many important fixtures at Saratoga. In these events Old Rosebud may meet the sensational three-year-olds of this year Omar Khayyam and Hourless, Cudgel, the western champion. Liberty Loan, Ticket, Westy Hogan, Spur, the great two-year-old Sun Briar and many others. RETIRES WITH WONDERFUL. REPUTATION. Old Rosebud retired to winter quarters witli a wonderful reputation, fourth in the list of thirty money-winners of the year, with more races won than any other in that select list. It is to be hoped that this sterling racer will thrive during the cold mouths and come back to the races next spring ready to repeat the wonderful performances which pleased and delighted so many this year. Another of the real stars of 1917 is in the Apple-gate stable, and this is the fast and game two-year-old colt. Jack Hare Jr. He was undoubtedly one of the real two-year-old stars of 1917. Jack Hare Jr. is a dark brown colt about 15?4 hands high, well furnished, evenly and accurately balanced and beautifully proportioned and outlined. He is a real race horse from the ground up and he looks like a colt which would train on and make one of the really good three-year-olds of 1918. In the band also are several two-year-olds which Frank Weir raced at Juarez last winter and.yhich were consequently ineligible to start on the Jockey ClTib tracks last summer, but they will be heard from among the three-year-olds of 1918 after their long let-up. Among these is a stout and useful-looking bay gelding. Fort Bliss, by Dick Welles Espero. He started but twice and wdii both his races. Belle Rolierts is a good-looking chestnut filly by Master Robert Chestnut Belle. In her first race she ran second to her stablemate and in her next she won. She started but twice. Helen Atkiu is a handsome and highly finished chestnut filly by Jack Atkin Helene, bred by Mr. Applegute. She started but once and won her only race. Golden Glow is a bay two-year-old. which has just been added to the list of geldings. He is by All Gold Rainy Daisy. In addition to these Mr. Weir lias in his stable Hendrie, for which he paid a liberal price aud shortly afterward much more than won him out. He also has a rangy-looking three-year-old chestnut gelding. Starter, which earned brackets five times during the year. Frank Weir has also a yearling colt by Peep oDay Veronique, of which he expects great things in the juvenile division next spring. This is a large and compactly formed colt of great substance and high finish, well balanced and possessed of excellent racing outlines. He is pronouncedly masculine in type and bears a striking resemblance in general outline to his maternal grandslre, Alloway, a big bay or brown horse, fully seventeen hands high and having proportionate range and substance. He has shown enough in his yearling form to convince Weir that he has a fine turn of speed and a faultless way of going.
