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INTEREST IN ABE FRANKS SUCCESS. Successful Sire of 1911 Juveniles Result of Artificial Breeding Experiment Blue Grass Gossip. Lexingion, Ky.. January 14. Abe Frank, which, through the achievements of Calissc, Tie Thomas, Closer, Bessie Frank and Luna Beall at" Juarez, is thus early in the season at the head of the list of sires of winning two-year-olds for 1911, is the result of artificial impregnation, and is a most striking example of the application of that science. Abe Frank is from Hanover and the English mare. Cheese Straw. As a yearling in the summer of 1900 Abe Frank was sent to the salts ring and George C. Bennett, the Memphis lookmaker and turfman, bought him. Henry McDaniel broke him and tried him highly in the fall of 1900 at Montgomery Park. He seemed a racing prospect out of the ordinary and Mr. Bennett named him for his good friend, Abe Frank, a Memphis broker and sportsman. As a two-year-old in 1901 Abe Frank won ten races, including the Memphis Stakes, tho Vernal Stakes five furlongs in 1:012, with 124 pounds, the Graduate Stakes five furlongs in 1:00, with 123 pounds, the Kenwood, Quickstep, Edgewater and Competition Stakes. The following year lie won the Tennessee Derby and three other races and was fourth in both the Kentucky and Latonia Derbys. He fell in the only race in which he started in 1903, at Worth. May 11. In 1904 ho started three t lines and did not win. In the spring of 1905 he went into the stud at Mr. Bennetts farm near Memphis, and the first of his get went to the races as two-year-olds in 1907. They were Petulant and Terah, the former winning four and the latter two races. In 190S Terah, Petulant. Protagonist and Culture were his winning get. In 1909 My Last, one of his four two-year-olds, and the only one to nice, was a winner. In 1910 Abe the Shooter was the only two-year-old by him and he never went to the post. At the dispersal of Mr. Bennetts stud here in November. 1907. Abe Frank was knocked down to Thomas F. Kelly of this city for ,000 and went to J. F. Newmans farm at Sweetwater, Tex., where he now is and whore ho produced from such good mares as Our Bessie. Burnle Bunton. Ada Cook. Alma Gardia and Caddie. Griffith, the juvenile winners fit this year that have put him at the" top of the list. Breeders generally are finding in the case of Ahc Frank much food for discussion, and there are. quite naturally, many versions as to the cause of his ascendancy. Probably the most popular opinion is that it is the -result of his mating with better mares In Texas than went to Ills court in Tennessee. While litre this week Frank Tayior of Now York Iwuglit from Charles II. Hughes the two-year-old half-brother to Possession and Left Over, a fine chestnut colt by Cesarion Retained II.. a half-sister to Tradition. The colt will be shipped to Sheepshead Bay. The ten-year-old . bay stallion. The Scribe, bv Isinglass .Memoir, by St. Simon, has been leased by John E. Madden to Van Shipp and will make the season at the Sunny Slope farm near Midway. T. 15. Jones of Chilesburg has arranged with George Stoil to stand the sixteen-year-old chestnut stallion, Handsel, by Hanover Tarantella, by Peter, at The Meadows this season. Grover Hughes, who had good success with Black Fox and other racers that had been discarded as hopeless cripples, is handling the three-vear-old chestnut gelding. Epicurean, by Islington Dainty, which went wrong after J. W. Mav had paid a high price for him as a yearling, and Mr. Hughes says he is sure to win races with him. Walter Grater will take up the four-year-old gelding. John Furlong, next week. John Furlong lias been running out at Jim Stevens farm since fall and is in good health and condition. H. O. Lyno of Orange. Va.. has booked Codex. Dame Fortune and Frances W. to St. Savin, the premier stallion in the St. James Stud, and to the same horse B. F. Guthrie, of Shelbyville, Ky., has booked The Pet, by The Friar. The Pet is in foal to Stalwart and has a two-year-old at Louisville by Lissak that is said to be fast. E. R. Bradleys eleven-year-old chestnut mare, Shrine, by Atholing Pilgrimage, bv Hazelhatch. died a few days ago at Idle Hour Farm. Shrine was a good winner for four seasons. She leaves a two-year-old lilly by Broomstick and a yearling colt by Ilermis, both the property of Mr. Bradley. They are at Idle Hour Farm and are good-looking individuals. Superintendent Cliff Hammon says Shrine gave promise of being a great producer, and her loss is much regretted by the people at the farm.
