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MERRY THOUGHT FILLY LOOKS LIKE A PRIZE Lexington Trainers Regard Her as a Splendid Racing Prospect for the Coming Year. Lexington, Ky., October 12. -William Steele has . the eight yearlings bought by Paul J. Rainey at the eastern sales about ready for their first trials. They will be asked to show what they can do over the homestretch quarter at the Kentucky Association course as soon as the rainy season ends. The track has not been in shape for fast work hardly a day in the last two weeks. It is likely that October will be well over before any yearlings have show,n a quarter under 24 seconds, let alone anything like a three-eighths which will be much talked about. The colts and fillies bought by turfmen "in the eastern sales are not as forward as the youngsters which have as yet not been far away from home.. In several instances among the former the youngsters plainly show the effects of the trip east and bact. ApVrule,, the stables are unusually fret from sickness this year, an air of good health prevailing at the gounds. The Rainey yearlings will be shipped to Memphis during the winter and will be in the care of trainer "Bub" May. The list, together with the prices paid for each, is as follows: Phoenix National, chestnut colt brother to Major Daingcrfield, by Handspring Mon Droit .... ,500 Bay colt half-brother to John Smulski, by Star Shoot Ellangowah 4,500 Bay colt half brother to Candida, by Bridgewater Blackheart ...... ..... . : . 2,500 Bay colt half brother to Hyperion II., by St. Slmoniau Van-a-Clar 2,000 Bay colt brother to Eonio, by Eon Mermaid 1,70 Brown colt, by Royal Stag Strathcona Belle 300 Bay filly, by George Kcssler Antiquity..... 200 Bay or brown filly, by Knight of the Thistle Merry Thought 200 The- Merry. Thought filly is a half sister to Merry Acrobat, which as a two-year-old won the White Plains Handicap, beating the sensational Dick Welles. That was the race which cost the bank rolls of several western plungers, who followed Rome Rests fortunes In the east. This filly is a good looker, has plenty of size-and moves like an old campaigner already. More than one local trainer fancies her as much or even more than any yearling filly trained here this season She looks like a great prospect as a twd-year-old in 1907.
