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STAR HANDICAP HORSES COMING WEST Best Racers of the Ross Hildreth Garrison Car ¬ man and Other Stables for Kentucky KALT1MORE Mil May M Tho finish of the Mrryland Jockey Clubs spriig meeting at Pimlico trck next Tuesday which will be marked by the renewal of the 30000 Preakness Stakes the Krsts greatest threeyearold special will be fol ¬ lowed immediately by a Iiegira westward of three or four of the strongest eastern racing stables Commander J K L Koss of Montreal Cornelius M Garrison of New York Kichard F Carman of Maryland and Samuel C Ilildreth are all preparing to race the best performers of the older divisions of their several strings in Kentucky Commander Koss will pass the Jamaica and Kclmont Park ncetings entirely His colors will not be seen in the East again after the windup at Pimlico uitil the beginning of the Queens County Jockey Clubs July session at Aqueduct Mr Garrison Oees not expect to liing his stable back over the divide until the horses begin to run at Saratoga The Carman sJablo will race ia Kentucky until the middle of July and then come luck to Maryland to lest at the home farm against the fall opening it Havre de Grace Part of the Hildroth stable will remain at Pelmont Park but some of its best longdistance runners will be in the division David Leary the same who took Mid Hatter west last fali to win the 0000 Latoniu Championship is Iix paring to ship to Louisville LouisvilleHalf Half a dozen stakes of high value for long ¬ distance runners give Klue Crabs racing this spring a particular attraction to the owners of big ami expensive establishtn nts When a man has a Sir Harton or a Purchase or a 15e Frank in his barn it is folly to keep him in tiie East to race for guaranteed stakes of small value when events like the 7J M Clark Handicap the 10000 Ken ¬ tucky Handicap the 5000 Enquirer the 15000 Independence the 10000 Daniel Koime and the 5 000 Inaugural are about to be decided only a short railroad journey to tin West And in ad dtion to these splendid prizes for horses three rars old and over Kentucky racing offers at vactivms Tui U4f ijtr id i IflTlffi ST OOCrppoHor Kiutt Handicap a Churchill Downs special and the 5000 Ten Proeck a Lalmia feature featureROSS ROSS THREEYEAROLDS DISAPPOINT Commander Koss horses have not done as well so far this season as they had done at a correspond ¬ ing period of Plll The Canadian had no three yearold of good class ready for the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Nevertheless the Cana ¬ dian turfman will go to Kentucky with a powerful combination Sir Karton a glutton at the feed trough and a reluctant and indifferent worker has been hard to condition Iut stiff racing under weight has gradually fined him down and put an edge on his speed Westerners who hail only one opportunity of looking Sir Karton over last year will find him a rattling good horse over a long distance of ground It is not at all improbable that he will have demonstrated before the racing season is finished he is as good as the best of his contemporaries Itoniface one of Sir Hartons stable companions is a better horse this year than he ever was before Already the Transvaal colt has won the 5000 Pimlico Spring Handicap and since he is training soundly it is a safe bet that he will keep on taking races Hilly Kelly is at the top of his form and Koss has steadily improving threeyearolds in Irish Dancer King Thrush and Koyal Jester JesterKe Ke Frank of the Garrison string winner last year of the Latonia Derby and the Latonia Champion ¬ ship Autumn Cup has not yet struck his gait Perhaps he is waiting until he shall have got to Latonia to show his best The Sir John Johnson gelding seems to have a special affinity for the Covington track Hut when he does elect to turn on Pe Frank should turn on hard He weighs 150 pounds more than lie did last year and he is show ¬ ing in work speed of the sort that marked his two yearold racing There are a couple of promising maidens going west with He Frank and William Jennings will have the handling of the string stringCarmandale Carmandale a Maryland bred threeyearold by the Kentucky Derby winner Meridian Daruma and a stake winner himself last year is the star of the stable of Kichard F Carman will take west Car ¬ mandale has grown wider and broader and deeper than he was last year lie can run like the wind and he may be a starter in the Latonia Derby Inasmuch as Hildreth is training at Itelmont Park it is hard to say definitely just what horses he will take to Kentucky Hut it is said by persons who should speak with authority Purchase Mad Hatter and Thunderclap are hooked for the westward trek
