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I. H. WHEATCROFT WILL NOT CURTAIL. Proprietor of St. James Stud Flans to Continue Breeding Operations on Extensive Scale. Lexington. Ky., April 1. Irving II. Whcatcroft. master of the St. James Stud and a director in the Kentucky Association, returned to Lexington this week from El Paso, where ho spent the winter. The horses that raced in his colors at Juarez arc to como to the local track on the special train that will leave El Paso next Monday evening. His Kentucky Derby candidate, Marlborough, and his best two-year-olds. King Broomstick and Embracer, are in Henry MeDaniels string and will be campaigned by him at Lexington, Louisville and Latonia Ibis spring. Charles Thatcher is traiuiug the others. Including Redlass, Union Jack. Trafalgar, Frazzle. Noah and Green Seal. Mr. Wheatcroft has high hopes for the tliree racers Henry McDaniel is training for him. Marlborough, by the English stallion Woolsthorpe" out of the English mare Carsona dam of Carmaid and Mohican, by Adieu, a son of St. Simon and Farwell. by Doncastcr, was highly tried as a yearling, but was not started as a two-year-ohl, first because of sickness and latterly because .Mr. Wheatcrorts decision to reserve him for racing as a. three-year-old. Trainer McDaniel is giving him a slow and careful preparation and he will probably make his debut during the Kentucky Associations spring meeting, he being eligible to the Camden. Handicap at oiic mile and a quarter to bo run May j, and in which he will probably get his Derby try-out. King Broomstick and Embracer are magnificent thoroughbreds in appearance and tho former, a sou of Broomstick and Esteem dam of Maid, winner of the Rosedale Stakes last year, by Chlldwick. was voted by many horsemen to be the handsomest yearling in Kentucky last fall. When he catalogued all of his yearlings and horses In training for sale here last September, Mr. Wheatcroft. announced a reserve of .,000 for King Broomstick, but there were none at the ringside who would bid in advance of that sum. The colt has raced unplaced in bis tliree starts at Juarez, but his owner and trainer believe that, he will yet distinguish himself on the turf, and that at no distant date. He is eligible to the Racelaud Stakes and the Breeders Futurity at the local spring meeting and is well engaged at Louisville and Latonia. Embracer is a brother to Grapple, being by Woolsthorpe Embrace, by St. Blaise. He has never started. His first engagement is in the Baccland Stakes here. Mr. Wheatcroft said tbat the decision of tho representatives of the racing associations in the vicinity of New York City to keep tho tracks closed so long as the directors liability clause is on the statute books of New York state did not come as a surprise to him and that it will not cause him to alter his plans with reference to breeding and racing thoroughbreds. He is of the opinion that the Nrvr York Legislature or the courts of the state, either or both, will yet afford the associations relief from tills ropressionary measure and that when racing is re-established in that state it will be on a much better basis than ever In tho past. Mr. Wheatcroft is a man Of ample means, and to maintain his breeding establishment at Oakwood Farm will not pinch him in the least. lie has four stallions, St. Savin. Cesarion, Kismet and Don Royal, and some sixty-live or seventy mares. There "are no yearlings, he having disposed of his entire collection of 1!10 foals as weanlings to John D. Carr and Thomas Piatt last fall. The foals of this year to date number about a dozen, of which the raot recent are a bay colt by Cesarion Lilliputian: bar filly by Greenan Design, aud bay filly by Disguiso Incarnadine. Mr. AYheatcrott finds pleasure- In breeding horses and as long as there is occupation and market for the produce of his mares such as even Kentucky and Canada will afford, he expects lo continue the St. James Stud. A number of put-side mares have been booked this season to St. Savin and Cesarion, some of them coming front other states. Among the recent bookings to .St. Savin are Lucasta, Lady Hawkstone and Bobbinot. belonging to J. B. Viley.-aud Obia and Belle Swift, the property of John D. Carr. Mr. Viley has booked Ruth Parrisli and Lenora to Cesarion. and Al Lone, the dam of Douau, 1ms been listed to him by Thomas Piatt. .
