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HAS AFFECTION FOR STANLEY FAY. New York. July 19. — It was suggested to William Walker at Empire City the other day that the proper place to race Stanley Kay. now that he has seeiningly lost his good form, is in selling races rather than handicaps. "Kun Stanley Fay in a selling race?" he cried, fairly blazing with indignation. "What do you take me for, man? Dont you know that money could not buy Stanley Fay. I iove that horse as an only son. He has been everything to me and I am not going to run the risk of having some halter-brigade butcher grab him after a losing race when 1 cant protect him. ami hack him to death. "You eastern folk do not know what a good horse Stanley Fay has been to me. or what an unfailing source of revenue he has been to the faithful who have followed hiin at race tracks all over the country. "Stanley Fay has won 5,000 in purses and I do not know bow many big bets he has landed for me. When he was his real self I rarely lost a big bet on, him. He lias earned enough for me to make any man comfortable for a lifetime. Whether Stanley Fay races after this year depends entirely npoa what he shows between now and the time for him to go into winter quarters. If he recovers his old speed I will continue to race him while he keeps sound. If he does not he will go into retirement at my place at Toronto. I have a stable already built for Stanley Fay. with his name painted on the door. I intended last year to keep Stanley with Karl Rogers and Edwin Cum. two other horses that had been good to iue, in comfort and idleness the rest of their days, but .lack Ryan persuaded mo to give Edwin Cum and Earl Rogers to the Canadian Breeding Bureau and thereby help to save the day for racing on the other side of the border. "1 gave up Edwin Gam and Earl Rogers on the condition thai they be placed in homes that suited me and witli the provision that I might call them back whenever I thought they were not getting proper attention. Earl Kogers is now established at a farm about thirty miles from Montreal. Edwin Gum is in Manitoba west of Winnipeg. I have personally seen that their homes are comfortable and that they are getting humane care." Mr. Walker attributes Stanley Fays loss of form to the treatment he received at the hands of "night riders" in Camilla last year. The colt has never been himself since.
