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GOOD MATERIAL IN PUBLIC STABLE Trainer Dick Brooks Has Several Promising Coming Tv.-o -Year-Olds at Churchill Downs. Louisville, Ky., December 29. Dick Brooks, former trainer for W. F. Schulte, and who raced in that owners colors such performers as Batts, Zienap, King Olympian, Gliding Belle and others of note, is wintering at Churchill Downs, where he is training a public stable. It was Brooks who developed and raced Daddy Holbert on the Kentucky tracks this year and, after winning four straight purses witli the horse, sold him to George Senn for a good price. Brooks believes he has one or two youngsters in his barn that will prove to be equally as good as Daddy Holbert, although they will not be raced in his own colors. The youngsters in question are botli coming two-year-olds, one being a brown filly by Sweep Flaming Flamingo, and a brown colt by Ben Tro-vato Margaret Ilainpson, the latter a brother to Ben Hampson. These youngsters are the joint property of Walter I. Kohn and A. I. Schulten, two .prominent business men of Louisville. They were purchased by trainer Brooks at the Lexington fall sales and are both fine appearing and of splen-did conformation. Brooks also has a chestnut colt, by Ivan the Terrible, which- was left in his care by Kay Spence. The two-year-old Clairvoyant, which raced well in the Spence colors during the year, is also a member of Brooks establishment. King Belle, the three-year-old bay filly by King Olympian Gliding Belle, Brooks is handling on his own account. This filly showed extreme early speed " in all of her races, but was inclined to be a quitter. She started five times, won once, was second twice and unplaced in two races. She did not race during tin; fall season, owing to an injury she received after being shipped here from Latouia. She has recovered fully from the ailment and is expected to cut some figure in the plater division next year. Jean K., another two-year-old owned by Brooks, failed to graduate from the maiden class. She has been turned out all winter, but .will be brought back to the Dowus for training February 1,
