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1 j j , ! : IRISH HORSES IN LINCOLN Grave Fairy and Clonespoe Expected to Do Well in Handicap. Trainers of Both Candidates Satisfied With Progress Other Irish Horses for England. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. DUBLIN, Ireland, March 8. Both R. Moss, who trains Clonespoe, and T. Combs, who trains Grave Fairy, are satisfied with the progress of their respective candidates for the Lincolnshire Handicap, but the latter is the more attractive proposition. There may be those who doubt if she will go the mile, but that Combs has no misgiving on that point, and more than once he has galloped her himself riding over a mile and an eighth in order that he might fully test her stamina. It was a wise precaution to send her from the Curragh to Portmarnock, where a fine stretch of strand is available for her on which to do work. She is easy to ride and so W. Howard will experience no trouble with her. Combs has, of course, trained a previous Lincolnshire winner in View Law, and so he must know what is required for that race, the class in which is by no means oustanding. CLONESPOE GOING ALONG WELL. As to Clonespoe, Moss told the writer at Leopardstown that he was going on all right and he was not a little confident about the horse. R. Cullen, one of the most improved lightweight boys in the country, will do the son of Prince Hermes every justice. A story was current a fortnight or so ago that Grave Fairy might not run for the Lincolnshire Handicap, but for a minor race at Lincoln. There is not, nor was there, any truth in it I do not know whether there will be any other runners at Lincoln except the two with which I am dealing, but at Liverpool, as well as running Clonsheever arid Madrigal in the "National" and Smoke Cloud in a hurdle race, there will probably be other horses to represent Irish interests. Lord Offaly, who won the Irish Cambridgeshire last fall, will be one of the Irish brigade and it may be the Irish stables will have a few two-year-old runners. News about them is scarce this season as compared with other seasons, due, of course, to the Curragh stable boys strike, but by all accounts the several trainers there among them Parkinson, Behan, Dawson, Rogers, Fordred and Hunter have many of that age in their stables and current gossip says that one of the earliest winners will be from Hunters stable.
