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KENTUCKY TRAINEES BUSY FINE WEATHER FAVORS PREPARATION OF HORSES FOR CHARLESTON RACING. Trainer for E. R. Bradley Claims to Have Best Year linff in Kentucky G. W. J. Bisscll Addinff to His Yearling String Blue Grass Gossip. Lexington, Ky., December 9. The trainers at tho Kentucky Association track who are making preparations to race at the Charleston meeting, which is to ojien one month hence, have had unexpectedly delightful weather up to this time, and if it continues so for another fortnight, the Lexington-trained horses from the stables of T. C. .McDowell, J. W. May, J. C. Milam and others will most assuredly be as tit as any that will take part In the racing at the new track in South Carolina. It lias not been -definitely determined just how many horses will go from here, but Mickey Shannon, who has undertaken the task of organizing a special train, is figuring on no less than eight cars. The fastest move of the week was a quarter in :23 by the coming two-year-old brown filly by Ornament Chum, by the English stallion Ladas. out of the American mare Workmate, a daughter of Bulwark and Longmate. by Longfellow. This filly in owned by G. W. J. Bisscll of Pittsburg, he having purchased her from Hal Price Ilcadley, of the Beaumont Farm, and she was broken and is being trained by James P. Ross, superintendent of the Kentucky Association track. Superintendent Ross has a dozen other coming two-year-olds in his barn belonging to Mr. Bisscll. the latest acquisition being the chestnut tilly, a sister to Colonel Bob, by Cesarion Fousolette, which Mr. Boss purchased Friday from Thomas Piatt on a telegraphic order from Mr. Bisscll. This lllly was booked for auction in the Powers-Hunter sale last month, but was a little off at the time and did not go into the ring. Bissell bought six out of that sale, they being the chestnut colt by Woolsthorpe Beautiful Bells; brown colt brother to The Fad and Fashion Plate, by Woolsthorpe Fashionable; chestnut tilly sister to Mollie Montrose, by Cesarion Bezique; bay colt, by Scintillant II. Domino Whist: chestnut filly, by Orniicant Loot, nnd Downward; a bay tilly, by Superman Ileatherdown. The others Mr. Bisscll bought privately. From T. J. RIpy of Lawrenceburg he got two chestnut colts by Mad-dallo that had been broken by Pat ONeill. lie lKiught the chestnut tilly by Russell Option dam of Vcribest from J. W. May; the bay filly by Russell Madam Hindoo from O. II. Chenault. and the McGee Little Whit colt from Charles W. Moore. The dam of the last mentioned colt is a half sister to the winner Hickory Stick and is out of Nishat. a half-sister to that grand race horse Uncle, a son of Star Shoot and The Niece. Mr. Bissell has had all of these youngsters with the exception of the sister to Colonel Bob inoculated with the anti-toxin for in-lluonza and he has had them all insured. It Is reported, though not verified, that Wayne Lewis has been re-engaged by Mr. Bissell and will come here next month to train the string. About all of the yearlings that were broken and tried out early and are not intended for winter racing have been turned out to run for a month or six weeks before going into active training for their two-year-old engagements. Charles E. Itrown, familiarly known as "Brownie," broke fourteen, the property of William Wallace. Sanford Lyne and others, and there was not one but showed a trial of better than :24. This is something of which the young man is justly proud. John J. McCafferty has a beautifully broken string of youngsters and there are some likely runners among them. The same can be said of the Johnson N. Camden string in charge of John O. Keene, and likewise of the establishments of T. C. .McDowell, J. W. May and AV. J. Young. Cliff Hauimon, manager of the idle nour Farm and trainer of the E. R. Bradley -stable, is claiming to have in his collection "the best yearling In Kentucky, and .Mr. Bradley, who went to Chicago the first of the week for a short sojourn before going to Florida for the winter season at Palm Beach, is backing him up with the assertion that ho would not take 0,000 for the youngster. He is the first foal of his sire, Ynnkee Gun, a winner, and the first foal of bis dam. Black Tall, which was the first: foal of her dam, Ladasino, an Inbred daughter of the great English race horse nnd sire, Ladas. . Black Tail is by Disguise, was bred in the Castleton Stud and ran unplaced In her only start, which was as a two-year-old. She was reported to have been highly tried. The Bradley yearlings and older horses intended for racing next season are all running out at the Idle Hour Farm with tho exception of Bobby Boyer. Tills game son of Orlando and Sweet Alice has not recovered from the kick lie received at the post in tho race for which lie was nosed out by Prince Gal at Latonia October 21. He has a big lump just below his right hock and trainer Haniinon fears that lie may never be entirely well again. The other horses are all doing famously, and this Includes James MacManus Rocky OBrien, which was recently feather-fired. Tho stallions Sain and Jack Atkin, recent comers from Barney Schrelbers Woodlands Stud in .Missouri, are improving in appearance with each passing hour, though they were in good enough condition when they arrived. The change of water and grass has been beneficial, as it almost invariably is with horses coming into this section from other parts of the country. There arc five stallions available for service at the Bradley farm the coming season, the others being Cunard, Helmet and Astronomer, the latter being exclusively for the mares of his owner, David Gideon. Helmet is likewise to bo private. Sain will stand at. 00, Cunard at 00, and Jack Atkin at 50. There are. all counted, forty-two mares at the Idle Hour Farm, twenty-nine of them being the property of Mr. Bradley. The remainder belong to David Gideon. J. L. McGiiinis. George C. Bennett and other friends of the proprietor.
