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PLAN TO GET RID OF POOR FILLIES. Lexington, Ky., November 4. A plan for the elimination of those thoroughbred fillies that are lacking in conformation, individuality, bone, sinew, stamnia and speed, in fact all of the requirements for the good race mare and the ideal stud matron, has been advanced and is being advocated by horsemen and breeders here with the expectation that the Kentucky State Racing Commission may adopt and foster it. Perhaps some of those who have noted the steady stream of thoroughbred stallions and mares going out of the United States to England, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, India, South America and Australia since the passage of repressiouary racing laws In a number of our states and who hare read the stories of the rapid depletion of the breeding studs in Kentucky, will wonder that anyone would regard it as necessary to make plans for "weeding out thoroughbreds." But those who arc prone to wonder so are quite sure to be of the countless thousands to whom "auy thoroughbred horse is a thoroughbred horse, irrespective of color, sex, size or conformation." The plan is to hare the Kentucky State Racing Commission authorize a specified number of races to be given each year at Lexington, Louisrllle and Latonia for fillies two, three and four years of age with the understanding that the winner is to immediately become the property of the Kentucky State Racing Commission and by that body sold for whateTer she will bring, without pedigree and into banishment and obscurity forever. The plan contemplates that the purses are to be given by the racing associations, just as are any and all of the purses on the dally programs at the various tracks, and the proceeds from the sale of the fillies, which will average about 00 a head, are to be nut into a fund to be added to a handicap designated as the Racing Commission Handicap, to be run for at one of the three racing points annually. The purses to be given for such races would average about 75 to the winner, and it is figured that, as scarce as really good race horses are in this country right now, there are scores of owners who would gladly take that amount for some ill-shapen filly of little account In his string, and there are others who would be satisfied to average that amount for fairly good-looking, but quality-free, fillies. Shooting Star, the winner of the Mexican Derby, though foaled In Mexico, was bred by John E. Madden at Hamburg Place. Shooting Star is a brown filly by Requital Star Lily, a daughter of Sandrlng-ham and Baylieht dam of Goody Goody, which produced The Abbot, winner of the Latonia Derby, by Rayon dOr, and tracing back in the Levity family. Star Lily, In foal to Requital, was sold by auction in a consignment from Hamburg Place at the Fasig-Tipton Companys sale here November 25, 1007, to L. Blum, a Mexican dealer, for 1911.sh0. Mr. Blum took her to Mexico and her first foal in that country has earned ,915 in one race. Five thoroughbred mares that were recently sold by James B. Haggin to a gentleman in Montevideo, Uraguay, are to be shipped from Elmendorf Farm next week. Along with them will go seven racers that are shortly to leave New York for Germany, to be sold.
