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FITZSIMMONS WELL FORTIFIED Has Serious Designs on Wood Memorial and Jamaica Handicap. Veteran Trainer Pointing Three for Three-Year-Old Fixture Saturday Fighting Fox Workout. JAMAICA, N. Y., April 26. James Fitz-simmons has serious designs on both the Wood Memorial and the Jamaica Handicap, that make the coming week-end the most notable of the Metropolitan Jockey Club meeting. He has a particularly strong hand , for the Wood in Fighting Fox, Quick Devil , and Stormscud, while Snark, winner of the Paumonok and top weight for the Jamaica, will surely be the public choice for that six furlongs dash. Yesterday Fitzsimmons had his three Wood colts out in useful tightening-up exercises for the mile and seventy yards gallop. Each was sent a good mile and each showed complete readiness. Fighting Fox, top colt of the lot, had Quick Devil as his running-mate as they reeled off the mile in 1:39, handily, while Stormscud, just returned from Havre de Grace, where he was raced in the Chesapeake, completed his mile in 1:41. Naturally, principal interest was in the Fighting Fox move. Quick Devil went right along with the son of Sir Gallahad III. and Marguerite and they went away at a sizzling pace, with a first half in :45. The five furlongs mark was reached in :58, the six furlongs in 1:12, seven furlongs in 1:25 and the mile in 1:39. EVEN RACE. The even pace is realized when the fractions reveal that after that swift first half the next furlong was run in :12, the sixth furlongs in :13, the seventh in :13 and the final furlong in :13. It told eloquently of the entire fitness of both colts. Stormscud also demonstrated that his trip to Maryland, though it was a fruitless one, had done him no harm. He wanted to run all through his useful trial and is just about as fit as hands can make him. Snark, possibly right now the best sprinter in training, was permitted to step right along for his engagement in the Jamaica Handicap, as was shown when he finished out in 1:12, but he still had plenty left at the end of the move. Ed Feakes also trains Opera Hat for the Woodland Farm at Aqueduct and the son of Cocked Hat also showed his readiness for the Wood in his mile run in 1:40, in handy fashion. This fellow impressed greatly in his only winning effort of the present season and, barring accidents, he will surely go to the post in the Wood. He is not eligible for the Kentucky Derby.
