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HAPPY TIME HAS FINE BAND Irvine Expects Many Winners Among Juveniles to Bear Labrot Stable Silks. NEW ORLEANS, La., Marh 14. W. M. Irvine, trainer of the S. W. Labrot stable who, after spending the past week at the owners Holly Beach Farm, near Annapolis, returned hero to direct the final preparation of Springsteel and Open Hearth for the Louisiana Derby, looks for the get of the young stallion, Happy Time, to prove good winners under the Labrot silks. Eleven of the fourteen twoTyear-olds among the twenty-two horses Irvine has in training at Holly Beach are by Happy Time, and in Irvines opinion they make up as fine a band ot juveniles as will be raced by any owner this season. Three other juveniles by Sir Greystcel are in the big division of the stable at the farm. Following the close of the Maryland spring season, Irvine will take the main division of the stable to New York and will send Clay Suthpen to Canada with about eighteen head. While in the East, Irvine .visited the Pim-lico track, where he had the pleasure of seeing the Nevada Stock Farms Hygro, Which has been named for all the principal staked for three-year-olds, in action. He reported that trainer R. F. Carman, Jr., has the son of Epinard and Ruddy Light well advanced in his preparation for the 1932 campaign. In the trial witnessed by Irvine the colt went five-eighths in 1:02 and eased up three-quarters in l:17?s.
