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YOUNG BELIEVES IN YORKSHIRE LAD. Lexington, Ky., March 14. — "I think more of the future of imported Yorkshire Lad as a sire than I ever thought of any other stallion that ever entered the stud at McGrathiana," said Colonel Milton Young Wednesday afternoon in reporting the arrival the night before of the first foal begotten by this six-year-old son of the noted English sire, Dlnua Forget, and Rose Marjorie. "You surely mean to except Hanover," remarked one of Colonel Youngs hearers. "No," he said after a moments hesitation. "I do not mean to except Hanover. When I put Hanover into the stud I never had any idea that he would prove the great sire that he was. I do not think any one else believed that he would be a great success. You know they said he wasnt a thoroughbred. that is some folks did. I thought he would get possibly a few good sprinters and milers, and there were a lot of people who thought that he wouldnt get anything. But there is no contaminated cross in the pedigree of Yorkshire Lad. He is English bred and English born and that counts a heap, particularly with the figure-system fellows. He did not have a particularly brilliant eareer on the turf, but he was a proved race horse. He started eighty-five times in three seasons, won twenty-one races, nineteen seconds and thirteen thirds, and earned nearly 5,000. "The late John Hanning brought him over here at the foot of his dam in the fall of 1908. a weanling. Mr. Camdttii bought the mare and I got the colt — a handsome little black fellow he was — for 00. I sent him out to New York the next summer as a yearling and sold him to M. L. Haytnan for ,000. He raa in the name of M. L. Hayman as a two-year-old, but did not win a race until December at New Orleans. The- next year he raced in the name of J. L. Hayman- and won twelve races. In 1906 he was still in the stable of J. L. Hayman and at Aqueduct in April he ran a mile in 1:39. Along In the summer he was sold to A. L. Aste. but he never won a race for him. His last race was at Sheepshead Bay in September. 1906, and when It became known that he would not stand training another season I bought him from Mr. Asfe for ,300. "Last spring I bred him to fifty-seven mares, forty-five of them my own. If I had not believed strongly in his future I would have been on the hunt for more outside mares. Yorkshire Lad hocks out better, stands over more ground, is broader through the jowels and wider between the eyes than any horse I have ever had in the stud, and I am staking my reputation as a prognosticator that when these racers of his first crop get to running two ! years hence they will outshine the performances of the get of Cesarion, which, for two seasons now. has been at the bead of the column of sires of early two-year-old winners." This first foal by Yorkshire Lad Is from Fly Catcher, a young mare by Hastings, which was bred by August Belmont, and It is likewise her first foal. It is a bay colt.
