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Show PRICE M'KINNEY TO RETURN TO RACING Famous Cleveland Sportsman Plans Extensive Ex-tensive Program for the Turf. CLEVELAND. Dec. 21. Price McKin-ney McKin-ney of Cleveland Is corning back to thoroughbred thor-oughbred racing, and on a rather extensive exten-sive scale, too, If present plans are carried car-ried out. He is devoted to the sport. Ho finds in It great relaxation from his many business duties, and he has ever been a great admirer of (he thoroughbred. Much regret was c:presscd over the dispersal dis-persal sale of the WicklilTe stable, owned bv Price McKinney and J. W. Corru-.an. on January lo of this year. Some internal inter-nal friction had arisen between the partners, part-ners, and on top of this Mr. McKinne was involved deeply in war work, from which he knew little time could be taken for the eniovrnenl of racing. Tlie WieUiil'fo stable raced In tho famous fa-mous colors of the lute Phil Dwyer red. blue nash and enjoyed reasonable success suc-cess in the s-'.'is"n of I!I7. In nil probability. prob-ability. Mr. McKinney will ra- in hi--" own name when Im returns to the sport, , but plans to use the sp me colors in res' re-s' eel to Lie memory 01" one of his hcrt frienns. It Is interesting to recall that the Wiok-lli'l'e. Wiok-lli'l'e. stable's horses brought J-J7,77r. ai. auction List ,l;innnry 15. whb'h gives some idea of how deeply Mr. McKinney and his ! par tin r had ch.c,:me.l in the sport. Tho 1 horses included several stallions and brood mares, as bleeding ftlsu was a putt of th stable a"tlivties. Prbe McKinney lias plenty of money to satisfy his love of racing, and his return 'will be fci source of much sat iptn dion to I followers nf tin; sport. Petlcr '''t, he is a true snortsiean and the tvpe. of a mnn which is helpful lu ra'hic. No doubt he al-o will f-o back to hro.-Hnrr. although that development will co;,:e later. |