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I TRAINING-INTERFERED WITH WEATHER AND TRACK CONDITIONS HINDER HORSEMEN AT LEXINGTON COURSE, Declarations Reduce Eligibles for Blue Grass Stakes to An Even Dozen Gossip of the Breeding Farms in the Blue Grass Region,, Lexington, Ky March 11. The Blue Grass Stakes, for three-year-olds, at one mile and an eighth, to be run at the Kentucky "Association track Wednesday, May 10, has now an even dozen eli-gibles, and if half the number go to the post the gross value of the race will bo ,500. the winner taking all except 00 to second and 00 to third. The third payment was due March 1, and the following were declared out: J. N. Camdens St. Helier, Clay Bros. Outlan, George L. Longs Shameen, T. C. McDowells Premier, Barney Schreibers Du Bois and R. N. Smiths County Tax. The eligibles now are: J. N. Camdens Kootenay, R. F. Carmans Meridian. Martin Doyles St. Aloyslus, H. P. Head-leys Jabot, P. Dunnes Sebago, George J. Longs Exemplar. George B. Ott9 Golden Egg, Barney Schreibers Captain Carmody, R. N. Smiths Governor Gray, Catesby Woodfords Bertis and Any Port and Woodford and Buckners Mud Sill. There are no penalties and allowances for this race. The starters will carry the scale weights 122 pounds for colts, 119 pounds for geldings and 117 pounds for Allies. All of the eligibles are colts, with the exception of Governor Gray, a gelding, and Golden Egg, a tilly. On form the race looks to be between Captain Carmody. Governor Gray. Meridian and Golden Egg, but it is sixty days until the contest and it is possible that some one or another of the nine other eligibles will show, such improvement as to justify favoritism over either of the quartet named. The members of the local training colony are fretting a bit over weather and track conditions. Ere this they had hoped to be working their charges along at a fairly good clip, but with such rainy, stormy, cold weather as was experienced here this week, and with such a track as was left under the pelting downpour, there was no chance for even fairly decent canter. Charles H. Hughes has claimed the name Wolfs Baths for his promising bay colt, by Cesarion Retained II., by Hanover. This youngster is in training at E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm. As a yearling Wolfs Baths worked a quarter in 23J and, at the first asking this spring he worked over the Idle Hour Farm track in 2C. The first foal of the season at Maj. T. J. Carsons Dixiana Stud is a black tilly by the English stallion Ormicant Irvana, the famous producing daughter of Onondaga and Nirvana, by Saxon. Irvana is tho dam of Bcnsonhurst, Bath Beach. Belknap. Prospero. Margot and Anavri, all good winners. She will be sent to the court of Migraine, the nine-year-old half-brother to the stallions Hastings. Platidit, Handsome and Glenheini, and the producing mares Glass Slipper and East India, the former being the dam of Lottie Darr and the latter the dam of Easy Life. Major Carson considers that in leasinsr Migrainu from John E. Madden for the season of 1911 he made a particularly good move, since that stallion should cross well with the majority of the mares in the Dixiana Stud. Frank Clarksons good stake mare, Mabel Richardson, daughter of Halma and Veneta. by Regent, has a bay filly by Charles B. Rowes Allowmaise, seven-year-old son of Alloway and Polmaise, at John S. Barbees Glen Helen Stud. There is also a yearling or two hereabouts by Allowmaise. This horse pulled up lame after a race at New Orleans February 7, 190S, and was sent to Thomas Piatts farm near this city a couple of months later and was turned out. In the spring of 1909 he was mated with three or four mares and likewise in the spring of 1910. Last fall Mr. Piatt wrote Charles Rowe that the horse was apparently as sound as he ever -was and that in his opinion he would stand training again. Along in November Rowe had him shipped to Tampa and put him in training. He started him nine times in January and February, winning three races and finishing second once and third on aother occasion. Mabel Richardson is a half-sister to three winners Baker Waters, Veneta Strome and Boca Grande all by different sires. Two recent foals at Idle Hour Farm by Cunard are. a bay filly half-sister to Loween. out of Arthesia, by Siddartha. and a chestnut colt half-brother to Bucket Brigade, out of Piccola. by Fonso. The fillv belongs to George C. Bonuett and the colt to E. R. Bradley. A recent arrival in the foaling paddocks at Irving II. Wheatcrofts St. James Stud is a brother to the stake winner. Carroll, which, under the handling of Henry McDaniel. was five times first and three times second out of ten starts as a two-year-old in 1900. This youngster is a fine, large bay colt by Cesarion Margaret II.. by Lislion. In the hope that lie mar breed another- Novelty. Maj. Foxhall A. Dalngertield has concluded to send Sweeps half-sister. Curiosity, to the court of the veteran Kingston again this spring. Kingston, at the age of twenty-seven, was slated for the pension list and lordly ease at Castleton Stud, but the sterling qualities evidenced by Novelty in his racing last year created in Major Daingertieid the desire for another mating of the stallion and mare that had given him being and Kingstons permanent retirement from the stallion ranks is, perforce, to lie postponed another season.
