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WINGFIELD YOUNGSTERS ON WAY EAST SAN FRANCISCO Cal March 31 Walter P Jennings H T Griffin Fred Ptirlew and George II Strate paid a visit last week to Sacramento where they saw tin horses belonging to George Wingfield that were wintered at the State Fair Grounds All were much impressed by both the twoyearolds and the yearlings The track was muddy from recent rains but trainer Walter Heath seit tin twoyear olds out for their customary morning spin the day the visitors were there The youngsters wore worked in sets of four with the threeyearold Waterwood and the old fellow Plucky Chap helping to iiiikf up the lust quartet AVhen the ten young horses showed quarters in twentysix seconds in the easiest possible manner Jennings exclaimed Theyre surely fit not one took a long breath Pnrlew was convinced of their forwardness saying That bunch will win races all right rightA A few days later the baby racers started on the transcontinental Journey to Havre de Grace Mary ¬ land where they will meet the best of their own age Nine of the youngsters are by the Polymeliis stallion Honeywood and the tenth by the Sain stal ¬ lion Deutschland Walter Jennings said he had seen few better looking colts than the handsome bay son of Deutsihland Polistena an imported in re by Polymeliis Imola The youngster has In ¬ herited the most racy lines of both his sire and dam anil is of good bone and substance substanceThe The eighteen Wingfield yearlings sons and daugh ¬ ters of Honeywood and the Desmond stallion Athol ing have been shipped back to the Nevada Stock Farm near Reno where they will run flee until next fall fallThe The twenty horses to be shipped east from Wikinp Kancho will be in charge of George Strate super ¬ intendent o the big farm This will be the twenty fifth trip across the continent for Strate with horse shipments Fifteen of the band are twoyearolds six of them Friar Rocks Trainer Hurlew has been bringing the youngsters right up to racing condi ¬ tion by easy stages and they are all as hard as nails With a littlu sharpening up on arriving at Hclmont Park where they are to be stabled in the A K Macomber barn the young horses will be ready for their initiation in racing racingTrainer Trainer Hurlew has gone on ahead to have every ¬ thing in readiness at Hclmont Park for the horses
