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POSSIBILITIES OF BLUE GRASS STAKES May Furnish Good Line of Staying Ability of Number of Kentucky Derby Candidates LEXIXGTOX Ky April 3 This springs re ¬ newal of the 3000 added Blue Grass Stakes Lexingtons stake race for threeyearolds is in ¬ vested with higher anticipatory significance than any previous Lexington race has enjoyed For this springs Blue Grass Stakes will bring to the post for a trying gallop of a mile and an eighth some eight or ten of the colts and fillies training for the impending renewal of the Kentucky Derby It is improbable that it may draw many of the best threeyearolds of either sex that are being prepared in the east for the Derby The Blue Grass Stakes will be run at a time when it might not be consid ¬ ered advisable to break in on the training of some high class clots and fillies which because of a hard and stormy winter have not had a smooth period of early work But the Blue Grass Stakes will not require many eastern reinforcements to develop a highclass horse nice whether consid ¬ ered by itself of as a trial for the Kentucky Derby DerbyThe The horses already in Kentucky that are being made ready to race in the Blue Grass Stakes in which the horsemen of these parts are most concerned probably are Edward R Bradleys By Golly Hon Johnson X Camdens fast filly Lor ¬ raine J S Hawkins Cotton Blossom one of the best of the twoyearold fillies developed in the west last year Mrs Walter M Jeffords Golden Broom winner of last vears Saratoga Special Stakes AValtcr M Jeffords Kinnottl juvenile hero of the Pimlico spring meeting of l15l Monfort Jones Brookholt a sou of Ballot Gra cilla that showed dazzling speed a time or so last year while h was racing in the east George W Lofts Prince Palatine colt Donnacoua and On Watch winner of the Manor Handicap at Laurel and the inecn City Handicap at Latonia both of which races were run in October Major Thomas Clay McDowells Hi h Command probably tin1 best horse of either sex The Manager has sired since he was placed in service at the Ashland Stud W F Poisons Peace Pennant a halfbrother of War Pennant Edward Simins ami Henry Olivers Prince Pal a son of Prince Palatine that brought a big price a couple of weeks back and Harry Payne Whitneys Damask winner of the Louisiana Derby at Xew Orleans and the best threeyearold developed at the winter tracks tracksEASTERNERS EASTERNERS NOW IN KENTUCKY KENTUCKYDamask Damask On AVateh Donnacona Golden Broom Krookliolt and Kiniioiil are comparatively recent arrivals in Kentucky Damask came from tin Sotith in the division of the stable of Mr AVhitney that Mose Coldblatt will train in the West this spring and next summer Brookholt came up from Hot Springs a few days ago The others came from the east lint they have been here long enough for acclimatization already and prob ¬ ably the other colts and fillies mentioned have nothing on them in that regard regardThe The training of Damask and his race in the Blue Grass Stakes will be watched with close in ¬ terest because it is just possible that he may be the principal candidate of tin Whitney stable in the Kentucky Derby James Rowu has had bad weather to contend with at Rrookdalc Farm in Xew Jersey when he has been training John P Gricr Leviathan 1psft and Wildair and the other sup ¬ posed thrccyearold stars of the Whitney stable A sou of All Gold Crinoline Damask was only it fair sort of twoyearold But his excellent races under weight at Xew Orleans with horses of more mature years has created the impression even among the most exacting critics that he is a threeyearold of sjood class classThe The Blue Grass Stakes will offer to Golden Broom and Brookholt the opportunity of demon stiMting wlither or not they can stay over a greater distance than threejiuartcrs of a mile There was doubt on that score among some horsemen and liorsefolk of lie cast last year yearThey They arc today nearer racing condition than any other threeyearolds in Kentucky save those hat raced through the winter February and March weather at Hot Springs is notoriously favorable for training Golden Broom put in the months of ice and slret ami sitow tin Marylands eastern shore which is faiiicd for the mildness of its winters Kiimoiil is not believed by Michael Daly to lie as good a horse as is Golden Broom but he win ¬ tered with tin Sweeper colt at Glen Riddle Farm in Worcester County Maryland and should be quite as fit as his stable companion companionON ON AVATCH AND DONNACONA DONNACONAOn On Watch and Donnacona had nothing better than shed exercise when they arrived in Ken tilrkv but Max Ilirsch their trainer is satisfied with their condition and he is confident that he will Ix siblt1 to bring one of them to the post at Lexington in racing form formBy By Golly and High Command in training this spring at tin Ijxin ton track after a letup that began early last July By Golly was a good horso in the race for the Cincinnati Trophy last summer when In1 was beaten by no wider margin than a head by the speedy Cotton Blossom He was a much better colt than Bullet Proof or Mr Bradley would not have scut Bullet Proof tJ Xew Orleans at tin beginning of the winter to be sold Cot ¬ ton Blossom si ml he have improved into really imposing threeyearolds ami they are training well wellHigh High Command made a show of a band of fast colts and fillies at Latonia and Major McDowell has turned dowji several handsome offers for him His development over winter has been eminently atsfactory and he has shown encouraging form in such threeyearold work as he has done so far Prince Pal showed his ability to stay late last fall in several mile races at l uisvile and Peace Pennant was pretty much throughout the turf season that seemed to indicate that i f lll running races lie might develop into a threeyearold of good ilass Blue Wrack the threeyearold star of the Havana winter meeting does not happen to be a Ilne Grass eligible but the 10000 Herron which tvon the Cuban Derby the other day is coining this ivav and should be as well seasoned as is Damask
