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ANYDAY TO MATE WITH DICK WELLES. Lexington. Ky., Decemtoer 10. Fletcher Driver has been Invited by J. B. Respess to send his good mare. Anyday dam of Floreal. and sister to Caiman, to the court of Dick Welles next spring, and he will accept the invitation. Anyday is eight years old. by Locohatchee Happy Day, and was bred at the Rancocas Stud in New Jersey. She was raced toy Myron Mcllenry and was a winner. Mr. Driver pur chased her from Mcllenry in the winter of 1901. and mated her the following spring with Alloway. The result in 1900 was Floreal, a good winner this year, probably the best of the eligibles to the Kentucky Oaks, to be mn at Louisville next spring. Floreal is now running out at Walnut Hill. She will be taken up about February 15. and put In training over the farm track. Mr. Driver weighed her oile dav this week and she balanced the beam at LOGO pounds, a gain of 120 pounds iu thirty days. Floreal is a line, big filly, with plenty of bone to carry her weight and Is uncommonly speedy. Anydays second foal coining two-year-old is a filly by Hermence. the sire of Hermis. She was tried out at the farm about forty days ago and showed a quarter in better than 24 seconds. Anydays foal this year is a filly bv Goldcrest. and is a splendid looking youngster. Anyday is now in foal to Nasturtium, and a colt or fillv is expected from her March 15, shortly after which date she will be sent to Mr. Resyess Ohio farm. Caiman, a brother to Anyday, was one of the speediest horses known to the world. He holds the one mile straight record at 1:33, made at Lingfield Park. England, Jnly 13, 1900. he having been sent abroad from the Rancocas Stud to race in the colors of Mr. Lorillard. This kinship, together with the knowledge of Floreals performances in her first year on the turf, caused Mr. Respess to seek a mating of Anvday with Dick Welles. "I imagine." said he to Mr. Driver, a few days ago. "that tiio produce of a sister to the holder of the English mile record from the loins of the holder of the American mile record should be a race horse of the first quality as to speed. At any rate, most any turfman would like mighty well to take a chance on training a filly from this union."
