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WANTS UNCLE FOR THE STUD. Catesby Woodford Anxious to Get 0,000 Colt if He Fails to Stand Training. New York. July G. If S. C. Hildreth fails to get-the 0,000 Uncle to stand training this season, that horse probably will go into permanent retirement at Catesby Woodfords Raceland Stud. Uncle, now four years old, has not raced since he was a two-year-old. But when in winning form he was a clinker. He straightened Colin in the Saratoga Special of 1007. Uncle spent the winter of 1907-S in California, and when Hildreth brought him cast In the spring of 1!10S he confidently expected to beat Colin witli him. But Uncle went wrong while training for the Withers of 100S and did not get a chance at the distinguished son of Commando and Pastor-ella. Uncles trouble is with his feet and ankles. The colt has increased enormously In weight in the course of his long term of idleness, and a horse of his size and speed bears heavily upon weak ankles. Hildreth. who has trained many great race horses, says that Uncle is the fastest one that ever bore his colors. Catesby -Woodford raised the horse and wants him to take the place of Sir Dixon, which died last winter after a brilliant career both as a racer and as a sire. Uncle is closelv akin to Sir Dixon on the side of his dam. The Niece. The latter was a daughter of Jaconet, a daughter of Leamington and Maggie It. It., a sister to Iroquois, and the dam of both Sir Dixon and Belvidere. He is by Star Shoot.
