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TRAINING IMPRESSIVE GROUP -4 Hieatts Prepare Nine Juveniles for Racing This Year. adkln, Sweep On and Captain Alcock Are Represented Junius Bell Names Promising Colt Wood Worker. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 15. C. C. and G. T. Hieatt, Louisville turfmen and breeders, have nine head of two-year-olds In training that they -will campaign this year. Since the death of their stallion, Sir John Johnson, the Hieatts have bred to outside horses standing in the Blue Grass country. Three by Ladkin are a chestnut colt, Mer-curlo, from Soria, which begat the stake winners Ledge and Billy Warren; a chestnut colt, Graceful Lad, from Grace of Ogden, dam of Thunder tone; a chestnut filly, Sweet Lassie, from Sweet "Brier, dam. of the Latonia "Cup winner, Ben Machree, and the stake winner, Joy Smoke. Sweep On is represented by a bay colt, Sweeping Star, from imported Order of the Star, and a bay filly, Mi Cara, from Clarissa Anne, by Sir John Johnson, from Miss Kearney, the dam of Zev. Captain Karo is the name of the bay colt by Captain Alcock, from Karo, the dam of Mark Anthony. Infinite is represented by a chestnut filly, Infinette, which is from Minette, she by Friar Rock, from Clarissa Anne." On Duty, a filly by Escoba, has a black or brown filly named Moorish Amulet, by Dozer, her first foal. Flitter Light is a chestnut filly, by Flltter-gold, from Limelight. Junius W. Bell, who breeds thoroughbreds on a small scale at his farm at Prospect, has given the name of Wood Worker to his two-year-old chestnut colt, by Altawood, from ! High Pitch, by Zeus Miss Agnes. The granddam of this youngster was raced by Bell and was a consistent purse winner. She was the dam of the good colt Ben Bolt, which he bred and raced several years back. Danny Stewart, former trainer of the H. M. Woolf and J. N. Camden stables, was the trainer of Ben Bolt before "Bell sold him. Nest Egg is the name that the brown filly, by Hildur Annie Gilmore, will raced under the Bell colors this year. Annie Gilmore never foaled a colt or filly that raced that did not win brackets. She is twenty-two years old now, but is still producing, being in foal to Harry Baker now. W. G. Sparks, who has the Bell horses in his charge, received word from Willard Wilson, president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, of Birmingham, Ala., that he was sending him a two-year-old and a three-year-old from his breeding farm at Franklin, Tenn. Wilson bred both of the horses he has engaged Sparks to train for racing. Sparks reports his brother-in-law, Bob Frakes, of Lexington, as being much improved in health after a long sojourn in Asheville, N. C. Frakes was one of the outstanding trainers in the younger ranks of horse conditioners back in 1929, and trained the sensational colt, Sir Peter, for Junius W. Bell, who disposed of him to Mose Goldblatt before the running of the initial Cincinnati Derby for the reported price of 0,000. .
