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Show FOR THE PONY LOVERS nnn nnn nnn nnn TURF NEWS AND YARNS Howard M)ots of Lexington has bceu buying yearlings abroad this summer, and he now has fourteen in the shipment ship-ment which will come to America next month. They will be trained over here. Inasmuch as it takes a long while for the English bred horse to get acclimated, the youngsters wall be given quite a rest before any trials are made. The breeding of the fourteen follows: fol-lows: Bay colt Marazax, son of Ajax, dam Disdainful. Brown filly bj White Kuight-Bal-lara. Bay colt by Thrush-Luseina, by St. Simon. Bay colt by Criffel, son of Cyllene-Mephanzi Cyllene-Mephanzi by Rcaburn. Chestnut colt by .ITugelman-N. B. A., dam of six winners bv Deuce of Clubs. Chestnut colt by itoi Heroide-Ellen Greem. Chistnut colt by Polymelus, leading sire of England 1914-15, dam Shy Mis-sie, Mis-sie, dam of Shy John and Colonel Weu-nie Weu-nie by Ayrshire. Bay colt by Carpathian-Wild Gean. Chestnut colt by Llangibby-Flori-zel IS. Chestnut colt by St. Amant-Dora. Joanna, bay fill', by Johu O'Gaunt-Pield O'Gaunt-Pield Mistress. Butterscotch, bay colt, by Radium-Macaroon. Radium-Macaroon. Parr, brown colt, by Troutbeck-Parchment. Troutbeck-Parchment. Blue Plum, bay filly, by Cherry Treo-Cohara. Treo-Cohara. Of the entire lot Oots believes that the Polynielus youngster is going to prove the best of the imported youngsters young-sters of the year. Polymelus lias proved the greatest sire of the present time in England, and Shy Missie possesses pos-sesses some of the richest strains of foreign blood. Baldy, tout, rubber and roustabout of the Kentucky tracks, broke in with another one of nis stories this week at Douglas park. One of the rubbers who was with Baldy looking over the starters start-ers in a race, expressed his doubt about the ability of one of the horses and asked Baldy for a form sheet. "Whut yo ' wan' wid a fawm sheet, niggah?" inquired Baldy; 'Moan' yo know dat it doan' say nuttin' 'bout pills and sponges? T' Trials of Old Man Grit. Looewillo, Sept. 24, 1915. Old Timer Wei ed t finely git baclt to Kjiintuek after a yfecry iurney from Haver Disgrace, they have bookies out there to an it is awful they way they ireet us pore fellers what lives by their wifjS. Sum of the trailers wuz comin m to race where they is mntuals an I got one to let me ride with the hosses. it was a t nff jurney .but I get. here in time to win a wager at Dulas Park on Flitaway. Bein on my native heeth they let me do as I pleeze here. They is having a grate meteing herej ed, and John Sack mister is makiu a little change an if these hardhoots will jus five up to the orders of the racin commisshun the sport is goin to be bettern any, place in the country. These here slickers aint goin to lay up nothin in the futur. They has been told to git down iu front jus as offen as thev kin au if they dont they is goin to be trubble. X rid down from Lexington in a hay rack over a fool colt that went to kickin evry time we went round a curve. He nerely reechod me a ciipple of limes. lie kp me awake all nite and tride to bite me when we tuk him offen the cars here. If fie is n race boss Tm a dimoud expert. Not a baseball Dimond either, isd, ICf 1 hev any luck down here this fall 1 m goin to remane in Kaintuek this winter. Hut 1 mus have a bank roll what will keep the smolce goin up the china ley and three hots on the table evry day. T got the badge, you left for me at the saloon. Evry thing is now on the L'niou Pacific an T hev fergot bout that telegram sent you bout Star Jasmine. Wo are even. Yrs OLD MAN C1UT. By JACK SALX.EE. Special to Tne -Trioune. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 25.- With only two more days of the present pres-ent meeting to run, indications are that the Douglas Park Jockey club will enjoy its most prosperous pros-perous fall season in the history of tho track. Practically all of the stars of the west and many of the best from the east are sporting silks in the Bluegrass state this fall.1 Conditions have been ideal for fall racing, and the lovers of the thoroughbred thorough-bred who were unable to attend the meeting at Lexington turned out last Monday to welcome the sport back to Louisville. There is to be only sixteen racing- days in the Palls City this season, sea-son, eight days at Douglas park and as many at Churchill Downs. This, the racing commission argues, is ample in the fall. Some complaints had been registered in the past by merchants about the length of the dates granted for Louisville in the fall. It was then decided by tbe members of the commission com-mission that it would be better to curtail cur-tail the dates so that tbe lovers of racing rac-ing would have a fair amount of racing and ar. the same time keep down any feeling against the sport, realizing the true value of the sport to Kentucky. Improves With Age. Hodge, wh tch had been a dangerous horse in any kind of company, seems to bo improving with age. He showed a stretch run in the Inaugural last Monday that would have done 'credit to Buckhorn, Iron Mask or any of the stars of other days. He had been trailing trail-ing his field for the first six furlongs, but when little -fockey Garner called on him at the head of the stretch he literally ran over his opposition. The son of Ivan the Terrible has been filling fill-ing out this summer despite t ho fact that he was raced quite a bit iu the oast early in August. J. IT. Stamper, Jr., feels that be has a royal chance, barring accidents, to capture the 191b' Kentucky derby with his McGee colt, Prince Harry. This youngster had showed only one real good effort this reason, and that was at Lexington. Monday he was sent against two of the speediest two-year-olds in these parts, Marse Henry and Franklin, but he otitfooted them and outgamed them at the end. Stamper has been offered $6500 for ho colt, hut he declares the youngstor is not for sale. Prince Harry is a sightly youngster. He is a chestnut. He has a deep chest and n perfect barrel. He appears to be a youngster of heart. His dam. White Plume, apparently has produced one of the best juveniles which has been uncovered in Kentucky in a long white. Help Country Stock. The Kentucky racing commission registered another forward step in its last meeting when a breeding bureau was established for the purpose of building up the type of the country horse. The primary motive of this step is to try to secure a hiodel cavalry horse. This type of horse is almost out of existence in Kentucky since the outbreak of the Kuropeau war. buyers of the allies having stripped the fihie-grass fihie-grass state of the horses which seem to possess sufficient stamina. The idea advanced by the commissioners is that the stallions secured for the bureau bu-reau are to be placed under the charge of the department of animal husbandry at Kentucky university, and only a small breeding fee is to be charged the farmers. This, they argue, will cause the farmers to turn from the cheap stallions and try to help build up the country horse. Two stallions have been purchased for the bureau. They are Mad River, the veteran campaigner which once was the star of the stable of the Denver turfman, H. G. Bedwell. Mad River was n his prime about the Mint the east was agog over the prowTess of the great Prince Ahmed. Pri nee Ahmed tor a long while jointly held the six furlong record with old Chapultepec. The other stallion is Magazine, which won many a race for R. F. Carman. These two are starting the bureau under un-der way next spring. Professor Hooper will take these two to the country for nursery duty. He will give illustrated lectures pointing out the advantages the state is offering them. Want Beach Comber. An effort is to be made to secure Beach Comber, the $14,000 bloomer of E. R. Bradley's. This four-year-old is by Rock Sand, the triple crown winner, win-ner, and when hut a yearling Mr. Brad ley paid $14,000 for him, only to see the youngster come out too "growthy for any use on the turf. He is one of the biggest horses in the west and very ungainly. It i believed his will make a great type for the bureau, as by crossing the strains from Rock Sand and other noted sires and dams with the saddle mare, that the offspring will prove big and strong, and at the same time have more courage than the aver-age aver-age breed of the country horse. |