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GOSSIP FROM THE KENTUCKY FARMS. Six Shooter Yearlings Promise Well Nursery Stud Acquires Land. Lexington, Ky., October 7i. J. B. Kespess has just taken up at Woodlawn farm in Ohio to break to race next season as two-year-olds, the lirst yearlings sired by Six Shooter, two colts and three lillies. Kespess likes best a big colt out of Motiila. Six Shooter, 011 his dams side, is bred like Hanover. August Belmont has leased from Dr. E. M. Xorwood. for a term of live years, 200 acres of the hitters farm near here. The place will be sised as an annex to Xursery farm. J. O. Keene has cut his breeding stud here down to three mares. He intends to increase his holdings to about ten head. Keene says that he has had better success in breeding to various sires, and for that reason lie will not have a sire. The twelve-year-old mare, Greysall. by Islington Kaceniede, by Hindoo, . owned by John Offutt of Meadowthorpe Stud, is believed to be the heaviest thoroughbred broodmare in all America. Though lut sixteen hands high she is so massive in hulk that when placed on the scales the other day she weighed l,4t0 pounds. Trainer William Steele has taken up for C. W. Moore, Mere Hill Stud, a yearling lilly by Henry of Navarre, and a chestnut colt by Ingoldsby Virginia Moore, by Onondaga. The latter is a half-brother to White Plume. These youngsters were sick at sale time and Moore decided to" keep and race them in his own colors. Steele lias moved into the Kentucky Association grounds with Julius Bauers youngsters, bred at.Kenniore farm. There are nine in the collection, the get of Previous and .Mesmerist. Steele most fancies the chestnut lilly by Mesmerist Indian Fairy, by Iroquois. She is nominated in all the big eastern Produce Stakes of 1908. E. M. Xorwood has twelve three-year-olds he is preparing for E. 1. Morgan and Windthorpe, to be exported to Ireland next spring for hunting. The "young horses are mostly thoroughbreds, though some of them are by thoroughbred stallions out of jumping half-bred mares.
