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BENNING WINTER COLONY Trainer J W. Healy Reports Two Hundred Horses in Good Health at Course. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 22. James W. Healy, trainer for A. C. Bostwick, on a visit to the Jockey Club, reported that 200 horses wintering at the Benning track, Washington, D. C, are in excellent health and well along in their preparation for the coming seasons racing. Mr. Healy said that there has been no sickness among the horses at Benning all winter and it has been possible to exercise the thoroughbreds in the open all through the cold months. Most of the horses now in training at the track could be brought to racing condition in about twenty days, he declared. Mr. Bostwick is spending the winter id England and he recently notified Mr. Healy that he had .purchased a high-class steeplechase mare, which will be shipped to this country for racing.
