view raw text
GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS REGION. J. 0. Xecnc Takes Up String of Seventeen for J. N. Camden Other Newsy Items, Lexington, Ivy., March 4. The stable of Johnson N. Camden, member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission and owner of the Ilartland Stud of thoroughbreds, is the latest addition to the training colony at the Kentucky Association course. The string comprises seventeen horses which have been running out all winter at the Canideti Farm in Woodford County. They were brought here yesterday at the direction of trainer John Oliver Kcene, who returned home last week from San Francisco and who will prepare these fresh horses for the spring, summer and fall campaign. The oldest member of the establishment is the four-year-old Boola Boola, son of Ben . Brush and The Mecca, which in seven starts last year won once, was second three times and third once, earning ,002, ami evidencing a fondness for long-distance running. He began Hie season here last year by running second to Douau in a mile race and next he was third to Donau and Joe Morris in the Camden Handicap. He finished fourth to Douau, Joe Morris and Fightiug Bob In the Kentucky Derby, beaten half a length, a head and a nose.; The next time out at Louisville he ran unplaced in a short race. Then came the Latouia Derby in which he finished second to Joe Morris, and then he won at Latonia at :i mile and three-eighths in 2:22j over a wet track, and closed the season by running second to Sager in the Canadian Derby, when a new record for the mile and a quarter over the Fort Erie track was set at 2:05i. Boola Boola has wintered well and comes to hand this spring a much improved horse in general appearance. The only three-year-old in the string is Kootenay, a maiden gelding by Ben Stroine My Beauty, aii imported daughter of the good English race horso and sire. Ladas. The fifteen two-year-olds in the stable were all broken and tried out here last fall by trainer Keene. before he went to San Francisco with the string of semi-castolfs that he raced with indifferent success during the abbreviated meeting at Oakland, and they have been named as follows: Batwa. br. e, by Mazagan Screech dam of Ada O. Walker, by Galore. Basongo. b. c, by Mazagan Sister Juliet dain of Mary Talbott, by Eshcr. Belgian, h. c, by Mazagan Trent, by Trenton. Boiinechance, b. c. by Orsiul l!Ieur de Marie, by Meddler. Evelina, b. f. by Mazagan Crowned QuccnC dam of Rather Royal, by Tournament. " Hand Brush, b. c, by Mazagan Bcnita Brush sister to Ben Brush and dam of Ralnrod, by Bramble. Lieut. Sawyer, b. c. by Gold Heels; Rose Pompom, by Royal Flush III. Manasseh, ch. f. by Star" Shoot Mistrust dam of Doubt, by Hindoo. Merodc. br. f, by St. Situouiau.il. . . . - Proud Daisy, by Pride. Mycenae, b. c, by Mazagan Sweet Marjoram sister to Yorkshire Lad, by DInna Forget. Praetorian, b. c, by Star Shoot Maribel dam of Black .Mary, by Hindoo. Tirana, b. f. by Mazagan Sparkle darn of Sparkling Star, Shineon, Sparkle Eshcr, Oilcan and Ozanp, by Loyalist. Tonga, cli. c, by Mazagan Aggie Marden dam of Aunt Aggie and Devout, by Mardcn. Tunsia. ch. ,f. by Mazagan Sthcno half-sister to Blenheim and dam of Destino, by Pioneer. Wherlwoiglit. b. c. by Mazagan My Beauty half-sister to the English winner Beauregard, by Ladas. Bcola Boolas lirst engagement is the Camden Handicap, which is to be run iiere Saturday. May i. Kootenav is eligible for the Blue Grass Stakes, to be run .May 10, and to the Latonia Derby, June 10. He was declared out of the Kentucky Derby last spring. Wherlweight, Tonga, Mycenae and Praetorian are eligible for the Breeders Futurity, to be run here May 0. Liberal entries for these two-year-olds were made in the Louisville and Latonia stakes that closed last Wednesday. The live-year-old horse Miami is probably the only member of the Camden string in California that will be brought back to Kentucky. Hamilton Kcene. who is now in charge of these horses, lias been instructed to sell thein or pick out a few of them to race on the inter-mountain circuit. Among the two-year-olds in California are Ma Mie, Lo Mio, Madrecita, Pourquoi, Nada Mas. Mandadero and Penang. Among the two-year-olds in the- stable of W. L. Lewis at the Kentucky Association track is a filly belonging to W. L. Pstty. the widely-known tobacco broker who operates a big. stemming and redrying plant here. She is by Lackford Noogs and has been named Shirley O., in compliment to Miss Shirley Odor, daughter of, Edward Odor, a well-known local insurance man. Shirley O. was foaled the property of Mr. Petty, he having purchased Noogs at the MeGrathiana Stud dispersal in October. 190S, and she is the first i-accr that he has ever had in training. Shirley O. worked encouragingly for trainer Lewis after she was broken last fall and if she makes good Mr. Petty says he may become interested to a greater extent as an owner. He is fond of the sport of racing rfrom the spectacular side and is anxious to feel the thrill which comes to the owner of a winner. Including the broodmares, two-vear-old and three-year-old fillies and yearlings, there are now approximately fifty thoroughbreds at the Dixiana Stud, but no stallion. When he made his sale ot yearlings r.nd mares in the Argentine Republic last autumn, Maj. Thomas .1. Carson took along also his three English-bred stallions, Scintillant. Onnicant and Griffon, and this leaves him without a sire for the establishment. ITe thought of buying Kismet, which was recently sold by Earl Linnell of Los Angeles to Irving II. Wheatcroft. and made a visit to Keene-land Farm to see the son of Melton, but he decided that he would prefer a younger horse. Kismet now being twenty years old. As yet lie has not been aide to locate a stallion that suits him in every particular for purchase and has about concluded to send the mares to the courts of a number of the sires standing in tills vicinity. There are two foals at John S. Barbces Glen Helen Stud, a brown colt by .Tack Point Raiment dam of Marjorie A., by Henry of Navarre, belonging lo A. L. Aste of New York, and a chestnut colt by Sir AVilfred Hattie Walker, by Boundless, belonging to J. E. dishing, of Minneapolis. This colt is a twin, the other having died a horning. Twins by Cedarstronie Diamond Flush, by St. .Tulien. the pronerty of R. W. Nelson, of Jersey City. N. .T.. died. C. L. Harrison, of New York, owner of Waldo, has booked his mares Ophirdale. Frokeu and Sundance to W. OB. Macdonoughs Ormondale, now making the season at Glen Helen Stud. The imported mare, Lizzie Keller dam or Mon-r.rtif. bv Estcrling Emerald, by Master Kildare. belonging to Horace N. Davis of this city, died a few days ago of colic. She had no foal this year. The latest foal at the St. James Stud is a half-brother to AVool Sandals, by St. Savin Winged Sandals, by Strathmoro. Mathew Simpson, aged sixty-eight, widely known as a breeders of thoroughbreds, died, last night at; his farm near this city as a result of a complication of diseandses of long standing.
