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NEW BREEDER IN THE RUNNING. Nominations from William Astor Chanler for English Classics Occasion Surprise. New York, July 23. It is said that John K. Mad-dens nominations for the English Derby and Oaks of 1912 will be in the name of W. It. Cory. The weanlings that William Astor Chanler has nominated for these same English classics are now running at his farm in Virginia and are by Olympian, a son of Domino and Belle of Maywood and half-brother to the great Tenny. The Keene nominations are the best bred sons and daughters of Disguise. P.en Brush, Delhi, Peter Pan. Kingston .aid Voter that have appeared at Castleton this season. The Newcastle Stable nominations are the offspring of Adam and Handspring. It was no surprise to learn that Mr. Keene and the proprietors of the Newcastle Stable had made nominations for the great English classics, but Mr. Chanlers advent as a nominator to foreign races was unlooked for. His Virginia farm is a new one and Olympian, now eleven years old, has no reputation as a sire. It is almost a sure thing that August Belmont. Harry Payne Whitney and Herman B. Duryea have made nominations for the English classics on the other side. Mr. Belmont and Mr. Whitney are in Croat Britain now and Mr. Duryea is in France, where he has established a stud. Mr. Belmont has set up a stud near Dieppe in Normandy, but he has nothing from that establishment to put in such races as the Derby and the Oaks. His nominations will be products of the Nursery Stud in Kentucky, sons and daughters of Bock Sand, Hastings, Singleton and Octagon.