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t 1 1 , : ! . : , , , , j , , ! , I f J 1 t : i WHITNEY PROSPECTS BRIGHT Stable Appears Stronger This Year Than in Recent Seasons. Thrce-Year-Old Brigade Particularly FormidableFlying Cross and Black Look Appear Best. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 15. Not slnco Equipoise was a three-year-old in 1931 has, the racing stable of the young sportsman, C. V. Whitney, appeared so well fortified with candidates for three-year-old stakes events as It does this year. Among the twenty-three thoroughbreds which trainer Thomas J. Healey is conditioning at the sportsmans farm here are two three-year-olds that turf critics regard highly in sizing up the division. The stars of the three-year-old division of the Whitney stable are Flying Cross and Black Look, two grand looking colts, which trainer Healey says have come along in fino fashion at the private training track. Flying Cros3 is a bay son of Pennant which sired the mighty Equipoise and Blessings, a daughter of imported Chicle. Black Look Is a brown son of Whichone and Beaming, a daughter of Whisk Broom II. NO PREFERENCE. The Whitney trainer has evinced no preference for either of the two colts, which aro being ridden in their daily workouts by jockeys "Sonny" Workman and Willie NerU ney, contract riders for the Whitney stable. Engagements of the three-year-old stara will begin with the spring race meeting at Keeneland race course here, providing the two horses continue to train in good fashion and come up to the Lexington races in good condition. At present trainer Healey is pointing them for the Blue Grass Stakes, ,000 added, which will be the highlight of the Keeneland program. The Blue Grass Stakes is for three-year-olds and will be run over one and one-eighth miles. It will serve as a test for Kentucky Derby candidates training in the West. The winner of the Keeneland race probably will be established as the Wests Derby choice as racing fans west of the Ale-ghanles line up against those along the Atlantic seaboard and whatever favorite they choose. Keen elands big race will be run on closing day Thursday, April 29. EYE PHOENIX HANDICAP. Trainer Healey also is prepping a number of other thoroughbreds he expects to start in stakes races at Keeneland. Roustabout and Tatterdemalion, six and four years old, respectively, are being groomed for the Phoenix Handicap, ,500 added, which will be run opening day, April 17, at the Lexington track. The same pair probably will start again in the Ben All Handicap, ,500 added, on April 24, as further preparation for richer handicaps which follow later in the year. The Whitney stable also includes several youngsters eligible for Keenelanda two-year-old stakes race, the Lafayette Stakes, which will be run April 27 among the Whitney juveniles in the first foal of Top Flight, great race mare of several years ago when she was unbeaten at two and won 19,000.
