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TRAINER DAN OBRIEN DEAD. Cincinnati, O., November 12, From softening of the brain, Dan OBrien, long a noted figure on the turf, died at his home in Lexington, Ky., yesterday. OBrien first came into public notice as a trainer yeartago, when he came cast from Colorado with the then famous campaigner Jim Douglas, owned by Clifton Bell, of Denver. During his career on the turf he broke more yearlings which later developed into turf sensations than any other man and for years the yearlings of Henry M. Zlegler and John A. Drake were intrusted to his care. The one episode in the life of OBrien which placed him. in disfavor with turf officials was the moving of the three-eighths posjt at the Kentucky Association track live years ago in an effort to squeeze Clarence II. Mackay out of a huge sum of money for the yearling colt by Wagner, out of Mary Jane, which was owned by Engman and Wllkerson. OBrien secured a price of ,500 tand the colt and then priced him to C. F. Hill, Mackays representative, for ,000. Hill decided to take the colt , at the price, but before the money was paid the fraud was discovered and the matter was taken up by the thoroughbred breeders od the state with a view of having the guilty punished. OBrien made a full confession to the cora-"mittee of breeders in which he took the blame and ali responsibility for the offense.
