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GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS REGION. Lexington. Ky., January 0. Seven stakes, having an estimated aggregate value of S.S00, are to lie run for at tho Kentucky Associations spring meeting of thirteen days, which is to open the last week in April or the first week in May, the dates yet to be fixed by the Kentucky State Racing Commission. These stakes are the The Breeders Futurity, closed June 15, 1000, for two-year-olds, one-half mile, estimated value. ,500; the Blue Grass Stakes, closed June 15, 1900, for three-year-olds, one and one-eighth miles, estimated value ,500: the Camden Handicap, closed November 1. 1010. for three-year-olds anil upward, one and one-quarter miles, estimated value ,000; the Phoenix Hotel Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles: tiie Brewers Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds ami upward, one mile: the Raeeland Stakes, for two-year-old colts and geldings. Tour and one-half furlongs; and the Elmendorf Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, four and oue-Iialf furlongs. The last-named four are to close February 1 and it is estimated that the value of each will bo approximately ,200. The added money to each of the four is 1911.sh00, with 0 nominations and 5 additional to start. John IL Morris will liavc four stallions at. Wood-burn Farm for the 1011 season Charcot, which he bought at the sale here in November: Goldcrest, which was presented to him by William Lakeland; Knight of the Thistle, which is owned by R. II. Mc-Cartcr Potter of the Request Stud: New Jersey and Samson, the property of Mrs. L. O. Appleby. Mr. Morris says the mares and youngsters at Woodhurn are all in good health and condition. John Welch, owner of Mary Agnes and other good mares, and who annually has a few horses in training, lias been desperately ill at his home at Spring Station. The trouble is with his heart, and for a time in December it seemed as if every day would be his last, but he managed to pull through and is now out of bed. The Kentucky Association is using a cut of the head of the great race horse and sire, Hanover, on all of its printing this year. The cut was made from a photograph of the old horse and lends a charming distinctiveness to the stationery. The star boarder at John D. Carrs farm is the gelding W. IL Daniel, for whom E. S. Burke of Cleveland paid some such sum as $"0,000. While the horse is apparently as sound as he ever was, is in fine bodily condition and good health in every respect, Mr. Burke has never indicated that he intends to race him again, and to all intents and nuriwses he is a pensioner. Sleek and fat. he loafs about the farm. A short, while back J. 15. Respess, after a visit to the Carr farm, wrote to Mr. Burke proposing to race the gelding, but the owner replied that he had been a good horse and he preferred not to part with him or to race him iigain, at least not for the present.
