New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-12
MANY HORSES AT THE BAY.
TRAINING THE sHEEPsHEAD STABLES,
CONDITION AND PROMISE or THE RUNNERS FOR THE
COMING SEASON.

The liycllcst place in the East from a racing point
of view is Sheepshead Bay. Every pleasant morn
inc after the sun Is well the quarter stretch Is
lined with trainers who wat every movement OF
their charges they circle the track; Inc course
is in as fine condlion rs II IS possible 10 DC III AZ
tins lime OF no year. Probably IN no place IN tno
asst Is there "a greater number oil InoIouenpicu'
gathered together. Here. as at Monmouth, .n ny
n,yvers own the leading stable. which Is looked
nno2 as almost invincbe. Their horses stabbed
here are in fine fctte as 1t Is possible lor noSo'
to be. or,u uoroho
take their morning gallop with the hye-
v YEAR brown horse Tom Martin, who
showed ,nd with much mm sped McLaush sI up p'H The
morse looks to be III good form. The tonr-year,old
Richmond. by Virgil, comes next. Richmond ~
now regarded by tho knowing ones IN a s,i hlH
makers that the Dwye made all tie nets MAJ y.
they could secure him for that race at hitecn 10
one during the last week me thIee.S ea'- 0,nl
atcd such "A furore liz the West IN the early part Oh
last season. but vino did poorly later on Is sasn-
ing going colt he DWyers 40 nor rnge. sae
fall The dying Portland has hlled ont s3ihcwn n
bnt vet looks eggy. but no donbt he Will be an eX-
ccntionaIly hard horse to beat III the stakes Tor
winch he is entered when the distances are SNORT;
His speed IL great but his pluck and stamina VIII
be doubted until they ale INDICATED. inspector
Il hv Inaulrcr aud Buffalo, by Billet, have Doth
impfoyed and will make useful threc-year-olds.
The hrce-yoaroId LYDIA. by Billet, fun sister 10
the once famous Barnes has improved wonder
ton, too, has grown and file. filed b out ana ana
r riTrV excellent accounts Of himself N the coming
season. The peerless Miss Woodford brings up the
rear of the division trained by McCabe. She GER
tanly looks AS well. If not better. than she did a
wear ago. That the stable has not supefabnnh-
ance OF confluence her legs Ii evidenced by the
exceptionally careful way In which she Is worked.
That part If the Dryers string which is IN tram
ing under the care of X. X. Acock, who last year
trained for g. l.. Loriard is headed by the four
vear-old EImendori. lie looks well ana from all
appearances should give better account OF hih-
sen Tins season than he dld last ferola Is paH
hly by Genelg dam La Henderson. and Is tuil
SISTER 10 the great long distance mare terlda enc Is
fine looking three year-old. She ana not starl IA.
year but it is expected that she W.T. 40 gisa' v
To the DwSer colors- The bay lilly Lulu by NnEu'
dam La Polka, the dam Of SirathSpry Eo'one M ~
lips and other good ones, looks as II she W0nid 90
credit to her breeding. Hawley - Il good-Iookiihg
bay colt also by Virgil. and fnll both
of Vera Cruz. The stable Is exceptionally
strong IN twO-year-olds ard the majority OF them
include the bay cot Bedford. the black
colt Hudson, the brown iilly Miss Motley,
and the chestnut lilly Teacher all by Billet the
bay colt Harlem the black colt fremont, pay cOlt
whose dam is sister to Joe Daniels and the brown
colt R0undsman all by Virgil; four BY Luke Black
burn, including Young Duke; two by lilndoo TWO
by Onondaga and several others of different breed
ing. ltoundsnan and Teacher are thought TO be the
most forward of the lot.
The stable of next Importance Is the falriaH
stable Barry Blagrave has charge. with q. K.
Buchanan rs trainer. 1t IL made up mostly OF pur-
cnases m the Rancocas SAFE and from Ex-senator
StanfoIds Palo Alto stud IN California. ne ihree
ycaT-old Housatonic. by MOrtcmer, dam Nandallte.
Is perhaps the most promising OF the loi. CYciopS
by MOricmer dam Lizzie Lucas, looks to be 4 cheap
colt AZ 81 800 which paid for him. lie Is III
fine condition. and It Will take good one To pril
hin for the three-vear-od stakes. lleIcn eS,
another three-year-old MOnemer is good looking
colt. but yet untIied. ne other ihrce-y eaT-oIS
in the stable are tiardeZ by Flood dam sally card
ner aud Rowland, by Shannon. They are both
CaIforniaus and arrived here only little over
L.rE gI.tr .fIA al
There are seven twO-ycar-Oldo: the chest nut
FLIES Puzzle and tIyplua and the colts
Shawnee and Catalina, all by Mortemer IuzIle
Is exceedingly small hut Is SAID to nave run the
fastest yearlng trial ever made on the hancocas
track. She has done only slow work since she ar
rived at Shecpshead, as she has been treated ior
spliuts The horses that are to uphold the credit OF
the stable III the handlcaps and long distance races
are The chestnut fiji = Unrest, the chestnut horse
Walltlowcr the bay hlly NaecIa, and the four
ycaI-old Californian. Bishop by shannon, dam
Betty Bishop. Unrest and Nalecia both look some
what rough and plnchcd up. but Bishop seems TO DE
in fine condition and should do well RE has
never yet started in race. -Four more horses ana
colts are expected to join the stable IN few
weeks, having been recently purchased III hch-
Tie stable of John f. Mcdonald, the book
maker, IS quite = strong one. and likely to treat
the public to rs many surprises tins year rs III dd
last. Sam Brown looks particularly strong ana
hearty and gallops with ease and resolutions. Long
knight Is perhaps trllc low III irsh put SIM look
well and Is doing the fastest work OF the Iot
Blaze Duke is slashlng chestnut three-year -od,
who viii give good account of himself Borde-
a>e has filled out considerably and should run
well in her class The two-year-olds OF TINS
stable are Leland Pleasantly. Miss Ree.e and an
unnamed colt by Highlander Ihcy are all loo king
and acting well. Imported Richmond Is dong
steady work and except that sometimes he appears
to go short ia his gait he looks remarkably wei.
Edward lciiner has him in training MARYLAND,
who, "a year ago last fall. WAS SUCH hard horse To
beat but who went wrong in the early part OF last
scason again appears to be- all right. He Is reg
MAR cyclone. and rushcs along with his oid-time
laf rul Ma " l.
inc more flesh than his legs are likely to stand.
jimmy Rowe's" stable, winch was described in
last Mondays IMBUNr. arrived at Sheershead on
Friday last anu the animals are doing steady WORK.