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TWO DERBY PROSPECTIVES C. B. Head Is Counting on Altawood P. Coyne Training Bourbon Boy for Louisville Recruit. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 25. C. Bruce Head, who disposed of most of his blood stock last fall, the get of his good horse Master Robert and numerous matrons, re-I tained but few thoroughbreds. Altawood, a colt by Master Robert Crestwood Girl, the property of Mrs. Head, and Master Robert were not sold. Altawood has been entered in the Kentucky Derby and many of the principal three-year-old stakes. He promises to make good if he retains the form he showed toward the close of the racing season last year in Kentucky. Altawood is now at Churchill Downs, being trained by G. Hamilton Keene for his slake engagements. That he is a colt of rare promise is the belief of not only Mr. Head and Mr. Keene, but of competent judges who saw the colt in all his races last season. In fact, Altawood showed so well in his last races that Mr. Head has refused an offer of J20.000 for him. Good judges predict that he will go a long route and prove an especially capable soft-track racer. In the stable of Peter Coyne, near where Altawood is quartered, is another Derby candidate, Bourbon Boy, which did not give signs of being much above a selling plater until the tail-end of last year. This colt was purchased last fall for a few thousand by Arthur Board, a local wholesale hatter, who has always had a penchant to own a colt of Derby caliber. He looks as if his ambition is going to be realized, for Bourbon Boy has filled out wonderfully.
