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CHAMPION STABLES HORSES ALL READY Eminent Trainer Predicts a Great Career for Con ¬ stancy hi This Years Racing BALTIMORE Md April 14 The J K L Ross horses left Iiurel for Havre de Grace Tuesday Tin stable has narrowed down to fiftythree horses of which Constancy appears to be further advanced in racing condition than any of them and the consistent daughter if Ambassador has given every promise of being the best of her sex and age Possessed of a world of sliced she is certainly bred to stay Billy Kelly and Sir Barton have wintered well and both are big and strong The Ross stable should easily maintain its proud position as the leading money winner of lll He has a large number of highpriced royalrbred youngsters to begin the season with withThe The colt by Short Grass Ellangowan is most favored by the horsemen The Ballot Basseting filly while not large is a model of the highest conformation and can run fast fastCudgel Cudgel is to be nominated for some of the fall stakes and it will lie interesting to note how he performs after a season in the stud If he really makes good he will be the only horse of late years that has done so after retiring to the stud Ogtlen won a race or two but was not the high lass performer he had been Andrew and Escoba were complete failures Escoba was a highclass twoyearold and one of the best looking sons of Broomstick It is doubtful if there is a finer look ¬ ing horse in America today than Escoba He was not even placed last year and seemed to have lost his speed entirely Sun Briar ran two or three really brilliant races last summer but was clearly not himself in the fall lie should make a wonderfully successful sire and should be kept on tin farm After horses have made a season or two they become thick and heavy in the neck and it is just so much overweight for them to carry Another thing they seldom take kindly to racing and seem to know they have earned a rest and an easier life than the hard grind of training and racing Cudgel is a horse of wonderful disposition and may prove the exception which proves the rule AVe shall see seeBe Be Frank galloped a mile April in 150 He looks better than ever before and is sure to be an important factor in all of the handicaps and weightforage races over a long distance of ground He is a much better horse than he is generally credited with being AVith just a little racing luck he would have beaten Lanius for the Empire City Handicap last year yearThe The Suburban should be a most interesting race1 this year with such horses as Purchase Mad Hatter Thunderclap Lanius Be Frank Natural Bridge Over There Audacious Exterminator Sir Barton and Billy Kelly entered If the best of these meet it will be like old times especially if some of the good threeyearolds take part
