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GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS REGION. Lexington, Ky., April 21. Sauford C. Lyne, the .father of jockey Lucien Lyne, who is now riding in Belgium, has at his Larchmont Farm, near Bran-nan Station, Jessamine County, nine yearlings, seven colts and two fillies. The smartest appearing of the lot is a chestnut filly by Marta Santa Black Banner. The other filly is a bay by Marta Santa Country Fraud. She is only passing fair In appearance. Of the colts the bay son of Orlando and Jessie Woodson, appears to be the pick. Next most highly regarded is the chestnut colt by Marta Santa Pirate Polly. This colt resembles his dam. The others are.: Chestnut colt by The Scribe Semira-mis; chestnut colt by Hippodrome Sister Frank; chestnut colt by Stalwart Leigh Belle, by Bramble; black colt by Allan-a-Dalc Dollie Mc, by Prince, of Monaco, and brown colt by Electioneer .Cornelia II., by Strathmore. Woodson, the ten-year-old black son of St. George and .Exclusion, by Rayon dOr, which finished second to Highball in the American Derby of 1904, in the last running of that famous race at Washington Park, is now owned by Charles E. Terkins, of Burlington, Iowa, and is in the stud at that point. . Mr. Perkins came . to Kentucky during the past winter and bought Woodson from L. B. Dickerson, of Nicholasville. This week he wrote that he is mating him with some thirty-five thoroughbred mares with a view to producing horses of the hunter and cross-country types. Mr. Dickerson " is not training pny horses this year. He has at his place near -Nicholasville four two-year-olds and a. yearling, all unbroken, and. he says ho does not intend to do any- thing with them until he ascertains whether or not j racing will be revived in New York. One of the two-year-olds is a half-brother to Woodson. He is a sou of John Morris English stallion Charcot. Two of the two-year-olds are by Woodson, one being a chestnut colt out of Santina, by Previous, and the other a bay filly out of Mai Fai. by Bah Yan. His yearling is a colt by AVoodson out of Mai Fai. The other two-year-old is a brown lilly by Monsieur do LOrruo, out of Ann Shaw, by Previous. John B. Kaufman, owner of Peter Pender, or "Long-shot Peter," as lie has. been called at the Kentucky Association track since his winning at 70 to 1 and repeat at 27 to 1 hero last fall, says he expects that livc-year-old son of Meltoniau and Nun to figure conspicuously in the races for platers in Kentucky this spring. Peter Pender is now at the local track and is training well. His stable companions are Brother Mann, a five-year-old maiden that has been to the post but twice, and Rose Patrick, two-year-old bay lilly by Griffon Miss McLaughlin, by Sir Dixon. Rose Patrick is a candidate for the Elmendorf Stakes and is a grand-looking lilly. ; Thomas F. Dolan, one-time owner of Jean Be.reaud and other thoroughbreds, killed Alderman Patrick J. Mooney in the Loland Hotel last night. Mooney owned the hotel and Dolan was in arrears for board to the extent of 22. Mooney asked him to settle and was shot four times. Dolan is in jail. Waldo was transferred from the stable of Jack Baker to that of W. J. Young today, Mr. Young having a couple of two-year-olds belonging also to C. L. Harrison.-
