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METROPOLITAN TU8F NEWS Many Horses Start Training at Belmont Park and Gravesend James Fitzsimmons Has Forty three in His Stable Including Some Promising Juveniles NEW YORK X Y April 5 The opening of Mnryland racing season last week at Howie Howier r is awakened interest in local turf circles and the thel l spools for the coming spring meetings over the theMetropolitan Metropolitan tracks are now being discussed Every ne is agreed that the season of W2tt will be the thel l st since the repeal of the PercyCray law in inPlliS PlliS PlliSAt At Pelmont Park there are quite a large number o horses the training of which is progressing quite itisfaetorily despite the late start due to the nn isiiallv long and seven winter The track has dried out quickly ami trainers an now giving their charges i iiinchneodod outdoor work S C Hildreth has i s big and formidable string including Purchase Dominique Lilciillite Mad Hatter Corn Tassel Iriidorhinl and others in fine bodily health and it itI I not be long before they will be galloping at a pace paceTom Tom Healey has twentyfour horses in Richard T Wilsons barn including a dozen youngsters which w re bred by Mr Wilson at his Kentucky farm T m Welsh has fourteen b longing to Joseph E AVidenor Jack Joynor has seventeen in Ceorge I AVilliam Karrick has forty fortyfc fc charge belong to AV 11 oo A few an the property of H K Knapp KnappJerry Jerry Carroll has Translate and Sea Jiieen belong irg to Howard Marshall This pair will soon have s une stablematos for Mr Marshall is now in quest of several twoyearolds and a few older horses horsesJohnny Johnny Hastings has a big string belonging to Morton L Schwartz including Audacious and Enfi ¬ lade and several goodlioking juveniles Hastings has the ritimns filly which C K C Hillings lit from A R COP for LTi XK last fall fallEd Ed Nash has several including a t woyearolil of high promise He is by Fair Play Roxane He is named Honnington ard bears a striking re ¬ semblance to last years juvenile champion Nash Nashys ys the colt can run fast loo and expects him to Tvin several stake stakePlii Plii Ilogan has eighteen of P A Clarks horses in training including Diinboyne Honnie Mary and i half dozen highly bred youngsters Sandy Mc Nalighton is working sixteen belonging to Mrs AVilfrid Viau Mod Henderson and Hill Henry hivo some jumpers which thev are tuning up on the flat flatMARSHALL MARSHALL HORSES ARRIVE ARRIVEScot Scot Harbin arrived at Bolmont Park on Friday wit witii ii a dozen belonging to AV Marshall of Phila ¬ delphia Willie Midgley will arrive this week with a big string owned by Mrs Payne AVhitney nd Louis Feustel will bring Samuel Riddles string fnni Herlin Md to Itelmont Park before May 1 Mr Riddle will not race extensively in Maryland lliis spring In fact Man o War will be the only liirse to carry his colors there He will ship the champion from Helmont Park to Pimlico for the Preaknoss PreaknossAt At Cravesond James Fitzsimmons has the largest sifng He has forty three in his stable and all of them are in fine condition and working well oi the track every day His string belongs to sov inl sportsmen including Herbert L Pratt Capt Joseph E Davis AV II Maxwell Mrs J E Davis nd the jnincy Stable In his charge are several twoyearolds which promise to give a good account of themselves in the rich stakes this year yearFitzsimmons Fitzsimmons also has a relative of Man o AY r He is a bay swayback by Fair Play Mis ¬ sion He also has four fine looking colts by Friar Rock sou of Rock Sand The best looking of this quartet is Sunny Jim a handsome bay dam Lucy M Ho was named after Fitzsimmons wno earned that sobriquet by his pleasing disposi ¬ tion at the various tracks tracksAmong Among the most promising threeyearolds in the Fitzsimmons barn are Anniversary and Doughboy Anniversary has grown tremendously over winter and is now one of the best looking colts hereabouts He gave promise of being a really good twoyearold lint went wrong after finishing third to Man o AVar it Helmont Park and was turned out for the re ¬ mainder of the season Doughboy is going along well and is likely to stand a hard campaign campaignFrank Frank Weir Jim Poden Dick Miller Jimmy Murphy and Jack Coldsborough have their strings at Crnvesend working them for the Maryland meetings meetingsCone Cone AVaylaud had AValter J Salmons string of eighteen at Jamaica during the winter He worked them there a few times and then shipped them to Havre do Crace where ho will race all of them They are a fine looking band especially the juveniles and AVaylaml expects to win many stakes and purses with them
