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9 CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Courtship is about the best horse at the Fair Grounds and is certainly in grand form at the present time. Several owners and trainers at the Fair Grounds have been down with the "flu," but most of them are now on the way to recovery. All the two-year-olds that have started at the Fair Grounds thus far are rather of mediocre quality and all lack racing education badly. There are close to eleven hundred horses registered at the Fair Grounds, but, generally speaking, they are not up to the standard of former years. C. Robinson is rated as one of the most promising apprentices seen in some time. He has a good seat, "alert at the barrier anil never gets excited. He is a well-behaved boy and easily managed. He should prove a valuable acquisition to some big stable. John F. Schorr, trainer of the E. B. McLean stable, has weeded out sixteen of the poorer horses since last fall and now has but twelve wintering at the old Penning track. There" are only two two-year-olds in the string, both of which were bred by Mr. McLean. The Porter and old Leochares are the stars of the stable. The horses which were owned by nnndley Baker at the time of his deatli are being raced at the Fair Grounds In the name of C. and E. Kaker and Co., the firm being the widows of G rover and Hundley i Kaker. It is their intention to sell them, however, as fast as they can. The Kaker horses are being trained by "Tex" Forniau.
