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BIG AQUEDUCT COLON Y James Fitzsimmons Leads with His Belair Stud String. Brothers to St. James and Flannel Shirt Juvenile Sensations of the Training Camps. . NEW YORK, N. T., March 27. With horses showing quarters in :24 down at Aqueduct there is no doubt that the Long Island colony is well prepared for the opening of tho racing season that is almost at hand. Down at the old course of the Queens County .Jockey Club trainers could be found that intended shipping to the Bowie meeting, which is to open Tuesday, but several of them will send horses to the Havre de Graca meeting, which follows the session of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. Old Aqueduct is at its best in these bright spring mornings and the wide long stretches afford ideal training facilities. Much has been done in making the old course all that could be desired as a training ground in the cold months and it has more than taken the place of famous old Gravesend. SIIEEPSIIEAD BAY A!TD GRAVESEND. Time was when there was a great rivalry between Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend as training grounds. Both of those tracks have gone and for the most part the Sheepshead Bay colony moved on to Belmont Park. The Gravesend crowd were so attached to the course of the Brooklyn Jockey Club that they remained to the last possible moment, but when they were driven out they drifted over to Aqueduct. At first the big track was not in a condition to furnish the proper accommodation for this winter crowd, but the demand for stabling was such that the club had stables constructed and now Aqueduct has all the popularity that once belonged to Gravesend! James Fitzsimmons, the most loyal of all those of Gravesend, is now presiding over one of the largest stables at Aqueduct and his horses are further advanced than any others on the track. Last fall when Fitzsimmons severed his connection with the Quincy Stable he promised that he would open a public stable. For a time there was surprise that he had left the employ where he had served so faithfully and for so long, but he has gathered together one of the best strings tbat it was ever his good fortune to train, while the Quincy Stable has dwindled to five horses. FITZSIMMONS BIG TRAINING STABLE. There are twenty-seven in Fitzsimmons care and of these the greater number are those that will race under the silks of William Woodwards Belair Stud. There are seventeen in tins lot. Nine of them are two-year-olds and the other eight are three-year-olds. In this three-year-old division Aga Khan, the brown son of Omar Khayyam and Lady Carnot. has grown into a magnificent individual. He has been going along slowly, but Fitzsimmons has his eye on the Kentucky Derby and if the colt trains satisfactorily he is one that will be shipped to Churchill Downs for the running on May 17. There are others of these three-year-olds worthy of extended mention, but at this time it is Aga Khan that is expected to bring more fame to the silks than any other in that age division. Then in the juvenile string there is a brother to St. James, Sir Ronald, a hay son of Ambassador IV. and Bobolink H. that was purchased as a yearling for 10,000. This fellow looks to be worth all of 0,000 and in fact is a better-looking colt than was his distinguished brother at the same age. A big slashing fellow, he has shown Fitzsimmons that he can run and unless all signs fail he will be one of the juvenile sensations of 1924. Besides tho Woodward lot Fitzsimmons also has those that will carry the silks of the Dosoris Stable, H. W. Maxwell, John Moran and Frank A. Herold, but the real string is that of the Belair Stud. RED SULTAN A GOOD ONE. The only juvenile that has a chance against Sir Ronald, at Aqueduct, when it comes to looks is one in the care, of A. J. Goldsborough, that will race for C. A. Stone-ham. This one is Red Sultan, a bay .son of King James and Turkey Bed II. and, accordingly an own brother to Flannel Shirt. This colt and Sir Ronald are the outstanding juveniles at Aqueduct and opinion is about evenly divided among trainers when the two are under discussion. Each is a magnificent individual and each has shown enough in trials to warrant the hope that he will bo right up in the front division. Goldsborough has made himself much at home at Aqueduct and just recently a comfortable and commodious cottage has been built near the stable for his comfort and convenience. The -various horses he has under his care have wintered exceedingly well and most of them will be ready for an early start, though the real effort will not be made until the opening of the New York season at Jamaica. It is interesting to know that Prince James promises to come back to the races as good as lie ever was in his life, and if he does it will mean that he will be a power, in the handicap division. The old son of King James has been training soundly, and there seems to be every reason to believe that he will stand the rigors of training. Monday Morning and Dry Moon have both been going along well, and Peddler gives promise of earning his way, but Red Sultan is the gentleman of them all and there is no horse in training that looks more the champion.
