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COLONEL PEPPER TELLS ABOUT HIS HORSES. Colonel James E. Pepper, of the Meadowthorpe Stud, Lexington, Ky., Is In Chicago for a day or two on business. "There Is scarce a breeder alive but thinks Ills yearlings are the best and it is the most natural thing in the world for him to declare this years crop better than that of the preceding year," yesterday afternoon, "and I said Colonel Pepper suppose I am no exception to the rule. The ycar-- lings at Meadowthorpe this year, I regret to say, part Hilles. I never could arc for the greater understand it thoroughly, but these latter day trainers have a most unreasonable prejudice against miles generally. It Is due to this prejudice that the prices for fillies average lower than for colts, hence my regret that there are not more yearling colts at Meadowthorpe. The star of my lot, I think,, Is a filly by Ben Strome, out of Lady Pepper, by Hindoo. We have named her Katherine Carson, "after the daughter of Major T. J. Carson, of DIx-iana, the home of Ben Strome. Sho is a lieautl-futy- 89l W ft?i-9" and PWWfc 1 Is admirable. I have refused ,000" for" her. The one that holds my fancy next tq,KathcrInc Carson Is the filly by Mcallowthorpe, out of Qucenle, by Hlmyar. Queenie, you know, is the dam of Black Venus and Black Venus was by Kantaka, so this filly, being by Meadowthorpe, is nearly a full sister to Black Venus. We call her Brown Venus. I have not made up my mind whether I will sell these yearlings by auction In September or hold them over until their two-year-old form and dispose of them privately after they have shown something. The sucklings at Meadowthorpe are nearly all by Resolute II. This Is the Australian-bred horse brought to tills country in the fall of 1902 by Eugene Leigh. He is by Trenton, out of Umiila, and was a good racehorse In the Antipodes. Ills first starter In this country Is Snow, the good colt in the stable of W. II. Snyder. These Resolute II. youngsters arc well made, bright and active and I will be sadly disappointed if they do not show up first class. I bought Resolute II. to. take the place of old Kantaka. Kantaka did not drop dead, as Was reported at the time of ills demise. The old fellow was so enfeebled and so emaciated that Mrs. Pepper had him chloroformed to end Ids sufferings."
