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I » , , , [ . , ! , : BELMONT JUVENILE RACING ♦ Two-Year-Old Developments at Maryland Season in Big Stakes. 4 Good As Gold, Companion, Colossal, I awyec, ild Apple, St. Frisca Hated Excellent Prospects. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18— Two-year-old developments of Maryland spring racing besides Mrs. W. M. Jeffords sprightly filly Good as Gold, heroine of the Aberdeen and Pimlico Home-bred renewals, that should figure more or less conspicuously in the juvenile racing of the Westchester Racing Association which opened at Eelmont lark Friday to run until June 10, are Ompanion, Colossal, Lawyer, Patroness, St. Prisca. Radha, Wild Apple, Partisan, Guilford and Limbus. Good as Gold, a daughter of Golden Broom and Bel Agnes, can beat any of the others right now, possibly because she arrived at Havre de Grace with condition r-n them. But this superiority may not extend far into *he summer. Companion and Lawyer, wiiich are eligible for the Keene Memorial, Juvenile and National Stallion stakes, three Belmont specials, look to be as smart as anything Thomas J. Healey has brought to the races for Walter J. Salmon in the last three or four yea.-s. Companion Is a strapping brown colt by Ladkin, from Butterflies II. He looks far and away better than anything else Ladkin, he a son of Fair Play and Lading and conqueror of Epinard in the second of the International races that brought that French flyer overseas in the autumn of 1924, has Beat up m far. Companion was a bit sluggish in the second race in which he started at Pimlico, a sprint of four furlongs and a half, won by Chatter Anne, a good filly, but he showed great determination in the last quarter-mile. Lawyer, a son of Tryster and Entanglement, was slower in this race than Companion, but he, too, come on towards the end. WIDESEB STRAIGHTAWAY ROOMY. These colts, with their Maryland experience, should go mighty well in the big, roomy Widener straightaway through which they will do their racing at Belmont Park. Undoubtedly they will be among Salmons nominations for the Saratoga Special, the most sportsmanlike of American races, for which horsemen nominate only their best. Colossal and Radha, a home-bred colt and a home-bred filly, by Trojan, are the smartest youngsters in the stable of Joseph E. Davis, the president of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. Radha r vealed speed in the dash of four furlongs and a half at Pimlico in which she was just nipped by the better seasoned Wild Apple. She is Davis candidate for the Fashion renewal, a dash of four furlongs and a half, set for June 4, which will be Belmont Parks smartest spring annual for fillies. Colossal, a short legged, heavy topped colt, will be better for another race or so. He is in the Keene Memorial and the Juvenile. Davis bred Rahda and Colossal in Maryland and Matt Brady wintered and trained them at Benning. IS JOHN LOWES CARE. Limbus and Patroness, the former a colt by Bud Lerner from Dijou, the latter a daughter of Lucullite and Gratuity, are members of John Lowes division of the Rancocaa Stable. They won their Pimlico races very impressively indeed, Limbus beating Guilder, Audax, Pro Tcm, and some others off in a dash of four furlongs and a half. Patroness licking a mixed bunch of colts and tillies at five furlongs. It is not likely that Samuel C. Hildz-eth retained to campaign at Jamaica when he sent John Lowe to Maryland a pair that are as far advanced as they are. Limbus is in the three big two-year-oid specials. St. Prisca, a big daughter of St. James and Priscilla, is a half-sister of Jack High, George D. Wideners Withers and Belmont hope. A bit slow at Havre de Grace, she came through handsomely at rimUco. Andrew Jackson Joyner has her in Potn the Fashion and the National Stallion race. Blue Larkspur and Jean Valjean just beat Jack High in last years National Stallion race. Partisan, a son of Wildair and Ballotade, is a brother of Sir Harry, the Coffroth Handicap winner of 1927. He displayed keen liking in Maryland for muddy going. Partisan is in the Keene Memorial and the Juvenile. Possibly Joyner has brought to Belmont Park from Wideners Erdenheim Farm, in Pennsylvania, where he wintered, youngsters that will win more big stakes the season through than St. Prisca and Partisan will account for, but it is a good bet that nothing he has now is as fit as either of them. A i
