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NEW YORK TRAINERS BUSY. Take Advantage of Mild Weather to Give Their Charges Gallops Tick On Works Out. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 4. Horsemen at the Long Island tracks are taking advantage of the mild weather to further the condition of their charges. At Belmont Park Monday morning Max Hirsch had Tick On and On Post, the Loma Stables cracl: three-year-olds, under saddle. They are going along slowly in their preparation for more strenuous work within the next few weeks. They breezed a slow half mile at a two-minute pace. Trainer Norman Tallman sent Whisking out for a more ambitious trial at the Nassau County plant. The latter, hard held all the way, ran a half mile in :53, handily. This racer is well advanced in his training. Tall-man, who trains the Newtondale Stable string, had his juveniles work three furlongs at a two-minute gait. The Aqueduct course also presented a busy scene. Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons, who is in charge of four Kentucky Derby hopes, had all of them on the track. These four, Pardee, Faireno, Sekhmet and Tetra Khan worked half a mile in :52, handily. The two-year-olds in Fitzsimmons care worked three furlongs in a canter. Andrew Walker asked a couple of his juvenile charges for speed at the Queens County plant and they responded willingly. Starpex, the juvenile son of Apex and Fading Star, and the unnamed daughter of Prince of Wales Golden Dance, galloped three furlongs in :37. This is the fastest trial timed at Aqueduct this year. Walter House, who trains for the Audley Farm, had his horses on the track for the first time this season. This horseman usually waits until March for work on the track, no matter how mild the weathen
