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LARCHMONT YEARLINCJS AVERAGE WELL Lexington Ky August 20 Sanford tync of the Larchmont Stud employes a novel method to con ¬ dition his yearlings Mr Lyncs crop this year numbers en colls Instead of keeping the colts up ail day or taking a chance on injury In the darkness by Idling hem run out all night as many of the breeders do during thU heated term of tho year Mr Lync turns the colts into a twoacre paddiwk twice each day early iu the morning and In Ihe il of lie afternoon and sends a trained collie dog In with them With the dog constantly at heir liftIn llu colts exercise naturally about an hour and are cared for and fed just as if they had been broken to bridle and saddle and ridden by exercise boys boysIt It Is Mr Lynes contention that yearlings so handled are more hardy have better muscles and will have more stamina when they mature than year ¬ lings that are permitted to take just so much ex ¬ ercise as they choose to take and are kept fatten ¬ ing at tho manger the greater portion of their time They are barefooted but their feet are not damaged as some might suppose They will now and then chip off the rims of their hoofs but Mr Lyne contends that this rough appearance Is offset by the material benefit to the frogs of tilt feet feetIts Its a pity that all this antiracing agitation had to come this year said Mr Lyne as he leaned over the paddock fence a morning or two ago and directed the collie in Ills stunt of gallpplng the yearlings With proper opportunities every one of those ten will make race horses but it looks a whole lot like Ive gpt to practically give them away Why in normal times I would dare to expect any ¬ where from 0000 to 40000 for those ten but so many untoward things have happened and so many more things may happen that I have no more idea how Ill come out on them than has the man in the moon Doggone a fnnatic anyway There ought to be a national law to exterminate the breed breedA A chestnut colt by Voter out of The Heroine is the best looking one of the ten The next best looking one is a bay likewise by Voter He is out of Picayune II and will weigh fully 000 pounds Mr Lyne says he resembles Deceiver very much The bay colt by Ben Strome out of Jessie Wood son by Scorpion a son of St Simon has Jaconet for Iiis fourth dam and besides has much individu ¬ ality and quality Another is a bay colt by St Dory out of Mattie T dam of Colonel Bill and Elsie B she the dun of Jessie Woodsou by Billet out of Jaconet A colt that closely re ¬ sembles the pictures of Leamington is a brown with tan Hanks and muzzle and a large star by Broomstick out of Ida Fordliam He Is fifteen and onehalf hands high and will weigh 000 pounds A colt finished very much along the lines of The tady that good mare which carried the Corrigan green to so many victories in the west is the Mack colt by Kingston out of Little Fraud by De ¬ ceiver One of the largest of the ten is the bay colt by Scintillan II Anna Woodard by Hindoo The otliers are Black colt by AllnnaUnle Dollie Me bay colt by Ingoldsby Country Fraud and hay colt by St Dory Country Lass The last named is over fifteen Imuds high and will weigh over IOO pounds
