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AWAIT ARRIVAL OF NASH STAR Burning Blaze Assigned Stall Eoom in Barn No. 2 at Churchill Downs Course. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 17. Much interest is being manifested by turfites in the coming of the Shandon Farm Stables Burning Blaze, the three-year-old son of Big Blaze Mexican Tea, which has been assigned stall room In barn No. 2 with others of the P. A. and R. J. Nash horses. Trainer J. J. Greely, who has but recently taken over this Derby candidate and the othet-H in the string of this racing firm of Chicago, desires to give Burning Blaze- his Derby preparation over tho track on which the raco has been decided for the past flfty-weven years and when on a visit here, to complete arrangements for the taking care of tho horses which ho will ship from Lexington, remarked upon the excellent condition of tho Downs for spring training. No colt in the West has such a royal chance to win tho Dorby this season as Burning Blnze, If ho lives up to his two-year-old form. Mo split his .starts by winning six out of twolvoj second twice and third once, being out of the money three Untea in all of his 10111 raolng. His triumph In the IQnslern Hhoro Handicap at Havre do Grace, he Post, and Pnddoek Stakes at Arlington Parle and thw Richard Johnson Stakes at Laurel were his big victories and at tho end of the season he had won for hla owners the total of :ifl2f. That Is I ho second largest sum won by a two-yefUOld In ip!ti hat s eligible for the Derby apd Is only topped by Ton Plight, the greatest money-winning two-year-old of all time on American race tracks.
