The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
HORSE TRAINERS ARE
BUSY At LEXINGTON
Moderating Weather Makes
Things Very Lively in Train
ing Camps.
SLOW WORK DONE SO FAR
One Hundred and Fifty thorough
breds Being Prepared at
One Track.

LEXINGTON, Ky. March 12.-The mod
Grating weather FOR the past few days has
converted the Kentucky Association race
track into a scene Of busting activity and
the $50 horses in training there have IN
the last week all been put through their
PAGES. None OF the number are, of course,
near anything like a tryout for even a
quarter of a mile, though a number of the
old stagers have breezed through the
stretch that distance in %. j. c. Milan &
Cos two .year-olds nave had a slight at
tack Of distemper, but are now rounding TO
and taking their regular exercise. Milan
thinks very highly Of Belle s.. the half
sister 10 the grand two-year-old hlly OF
last season, Miss Crawford. and is of the
opinion that she will early develop stake
class. OF his older horses. Thayne, Firing
Line, Judge Denton and Miss Manners all
have wintered we'll, but Commodore, the
crack two-year-old of the string, has not
grown as much as would naturally be ex-
pected. He. however, is a rugged looking
fellow and looks this season like he will
go a distance well. 1t is likely from the
present outlook Of coming good weather in
his section that Milan will have his string
ready this season for early Chicago racing,
as he did year before last.
The three-year-old brother to the Mont
gomery handicap winner, Larkspur, named
Fritz, in Jack Bakers stable, has, unfor-
tunately for his owner, developed a ring
bone and while he may race this season,
his career on the turf is likely TO be at best
of short duration. The other three-year-
olds of this stable, Marshal Ney, Two Pen
ny and Marseilles, are looking ana DONG
well. the latter a half-sister to the late
w. g. Whitney's Buela, also known to the
turf as Lou Bramble, being one of the
prides of the barn. She was not raced last
season as a twO-year-old, though she
showed a high order of speed and would
doubtless lave gone into winter quarters a
winner had she been given the chance.
Baker will do his first racing at Louisville
his spring, then go To Latonia, and from
there to Washington Park. After the big
Chicago meeting his string Will become one
OF the regulars on the Canadian Circuit.
II would be hard TO pick two better pros
poets for early two-year-old winners at the
association track than the bay colt LeXing-
ton Leader, by G. w. Johnson, dam Brook
let. in the stable of j. II. Baker, and the
baby colt Dictator, by imp. Deceiver. dam
Miss Emily, in the string of w. j. Young.
The former Is a half-brother TO Bridge,
Necklace and Branch, while the latter is a
brother to the smart winner of last year,
Thompeuse, and his dam is a half-sister
to Ed. C~orrigan's good mare. Otyanna. Bar
Phil r. Chinn's two crack youngsters, the
bay colt Milton Young, by Cayuga, dam
Marie Decca, and the brown colt Colonel
White. by Clifford, dam Lacona, and IL is
a question of doubt TO any other youngsters
at the track being superior to either Lex
ington Leader or Dictator. j. II. Baker has
fired his good three-year-old, Handmore, In
the right leg, and this colt, about the best
of Handsel's get to show. bids fair to be
in no ways troubled with lameness this sea-
son. His trainer does not expect him TO
prove a top-notcher this year, owing to his
size. though e stake winner i'm 1903, but he
rather looks for him to be a good bread
winner, and especially handy in selling
stakes. where the price allowance will bring
him under a light scale of weights. Baker
has high hope, on the other hand, for Six
Shooters brother, Sir Gallant, proving a
No. l performer in 1904.
This grand four-year-old now stands 16
hands ~ inches high and ooks as much
like Sir Dixon as any colt he has ever sired.
He is being pointed for Washington Parks
big handicaps, and is nearly certain TO be
a contender in those big events. He is one
of the best doors in training here, unlike
his stable companion, Handmore, who is
of such a nervous disposition that his train
er has driven him to a road cart all winter.
The latest addition to the training col
ony at the association track are
the strings OF billiard Hill and Major
t. j. Carson. The latter has five two-year-
Odds. two of which are by Faverdale. one
by imp st. George and another by imp.
Ben Strome. 1t seems that early in the
these five youngsters for a lump sum of
$500. but "A buyer failing to materialize, he
concluded TO have them trained and raced
in his own cOlorS. This little incident may
result in future big turf operations by the
owner of Dixiana Farm. The stable of
billiard Hill is made UP of seven horses, all
OF which are two-year-olds.