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PINCH IS NOW BEING FELT SHORTAGE OF THOROUGHBRED STOCK BEGINS TO MAKE ITSELF MANIFEST. Curtailment of Breeding Operations as Result of Hostile Turf Legislation Strikingly Exemplified in Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., January 2S. Tho scarcity of thoroughbred horses of conformation and qualifications suitable for fioss-coiintry riding and hunting purposes is daily becoming more pronounced. Prior to the enactment of those repressionary and virtually confiscatory laws in Ken- York State, a man could come to Lexington and within twenty-four hours get together a carload of such horses, and hardly more than two days would le necessary for tho collection of a similar Jot for export purposes, but now. as is attested by the experiences of would-be purchasers from New York and abroad recently here, tlicy are not to Ik; had. A fortnight ago F. Jacobson of Now York, who lias been exporting such horses for twenty years, came to Lexington with a couple of patrons from Berlin with tho idea of buying a carload. They remained here over a week, visiting nearly every farm within a radius of twenty miles, and they saw no more than a dozen of the type and not half a dozen that would suit their purposes. They went away porely disappointed and without making a purchase. C. A. Levin came here from Avon, X. J., two weeks ago and at the end of ten days lie had purchased live, none of them near what he expected to secure, but the lest he could do. John It. Townsend of Goshen, X. Y.. who is iilen-tilied with Itobert Goelet in a string of trotters and likewise master of the hounds of the Orange County Hunt Club, loft here Thursday morning, having failed to secure so few as three mounts. He had had Francis J. Median of Goshen here for several days before his arrival on Monday and together they saw only one horse, the five-year-old bay gelding Adder, bv Admonition, out of .Fatality, that would suit liioir needs. They did not buy liim because others were not to be had. When it comes time to sell yearlings next summer the dearth of thoroughbreds will be oven more pro- jjouueertand the full meaning of the necessary cur-taltirieht of .breeding operations will probably dawn upon tho public. Marketable yearlings will bo shown to Irave decreased in number fully eighty per cent., as compared with the offerings of 1000 and 1007. . , , . ., . , Inless there is some reactionary trend in the minds of the lawmakers in Xew- York as regards racing and betting this spring, the crop of 1012 foals will be no more numerous than will be the crop for 1011. anil they are even fewer than were the foals of 1930.- Because of continued bad weather an alternation of snow, rain and mud trainers at the Kentucky Association track are still inactive. There are upwards of 150 horses in the barns, but for more than six weeks they have had little other than shed exorcise. There will be additions to several of the .stable during the coming week, arrangements having been made to take up horses that have been running out on the farms. The general health of the horses is good. In the breeding establishments the health of the mares is likewise good. January foals have been few. and slips have been quite infrequent. The situation as to spring racing dates is. in so far as local members of the State Racing Commission are informed, unchanged. They have not been advised of anv arrangement baving been effected between Louisville and1 Lalonia. It is expected, however, that some amicable solution of the problem will lx? evolved at the meeting of the commission on Mondav. Vice-chairman Milton Young is in receipt of a letter from Chairman E. F. Clay in which the master of Itunnymede Stud says he lias been greatly lMMiotitcd by his sojourn at Eustace. Fla. He expects to return to Kentucky late in March. Four stakes to be decided at the spring meeting of the Kentucky Association will close next "Wednesday. Track Superintendent James I. Ross lias been soliciting entries at Tampa and Jacksonville and Racing Secretary William II. Shelley lias been likewise engaged at Juarez and they report good results. W. H. Laudeman has claimed tho name Peeping for tlie two-year-old bay Ally by Peep oDay Barbara Whiting and Salesia for the chestnut lilly by Stalwart Portia Sweet. They are to be trained by Will McBaniel. Ten good marcs were booked this week to Irving 1L Wheat crofts Oesarion. They are J. P. Chinus Sneewell, George Kyles Marcie. George P. Chinas Dixarina, Mrs. L. W. Pinkertons Vic Kinney. Mrs. Harry Gaines Kccenena and Horace Davis 111 Turco. Lizzie Kellar, Realty, Aimee Goodwin and Queen "The first thoroughbred foal of the year at James It. Haggins Elmenrtorf Farm is a bay filly by Watercress- Dartle.
