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GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS REGION. O. A. Bianchis Racing and Breeding Plans Jim Gaffney for the Stud Other Items of Interest. I Lexington, Ky., Dccemlier SO. 0. A. Bianclii, the California breeder and turfman, was among the visitors to Lexington this week. He came over from Louisville, where he lias a dozen or more horses in training at Churchill Downs, to see the thoroughbreds, Jim Gaffney, Rocky OBrien, Golden Agnes and La Cazadora, a quartet that he sent here at the close of the Latonia meeting in November to be turned out, the first-named at Walter S. Paynes place, the next two at L It. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm and the last-named at James Stevens farm. He found them all In good winter condition and will shortly order Rocky OBrien. Golden Agues and La Cazadora to Louisville to go into training. Jim Gaffneys racing days are over and his owner Is anxious to make an arrangement with some breeder in this section having a few select mares to .Jake him for a couple of seasons under an equitable agreement. By Golden Garter Miss Maxim, by Maxim, second dam Ventura, by Virgil, she out of Ulrica, by Lexington, Jim Gaffney is a beautifully bred horse. He is a powerful animal, standing aiow 10.2. with great lwne, magnificent shoulders and loins. He was a good race horse and the fact that lie was up against the mighty Colin served to keep liim from ranking at the top of the list as a two-year-old in 1907. As it was, he won upward of 2j,000 that year and there was no other colt of his age between hint and the champion Colin in the list of winners. Ho is a brother to Golden Maxim and a half-brother to Legal Maxim, two good horses. That Mr. Bianchl lias great faith in Jim Gaffney as a progenitor is proved by the fact that, even though he possesses so good a young sire as Bearcatcher, he last season mated the good mares Lavena C., Resignation II. I and her daughter, Viola B., to the son of Golden Garter and they are due to foal at the Palo Alto Farm in California late in January or early in February. "I had an idea of bringing Bearcatcher to Ken-tuckv also," said Mr. Biauchi. "but I finally decided to defer his transferal from California another year. In addition to Lavena C. the dam of nine winners, four of them Lee Rose. Gilbert Rose. Frank Ruli-staller and Oakland winners respectively of the first race for two-year-olds run iu California in 1000. 07, OS and 00, Resignation II. and Viola B. I have live other mares with Bearcatcher at the Palo Alto Farm. There is Aimee C, winner of her last seven races, bv Watercolor, out of Maiden Poem dam of Clark Griffith and sister to Santa Bella, the dam of Ormondale. Aimee C. is in foal to Salvation, the sire of Jim Basey. Torsido, the first filly hi the west to run a mile as a two-year-old in l:40i with more than 100 pounds up. and likewise winner of the Oakland Prize, the Montana Derby and the Daly Stakes, is also in foal to Salvation and I have a nice weanling lilly by Bearcatcher out of her at Louisville. Along with this filly came another weanling lilly by Tony Faust Resignation II. Avonta, a daughter of St. Avonicus and Orellana, by Ormonde, is in foal to Bearcatcher. Tuwasentha. a daughter of Lavena C. missed in breeding last spring and I have decided to race her again. I will put her and Sonia, the sister to Brigg. iu charge of J. A. McGovern for a campaign in Vancouver, Idaho and Montana. At the Palo Alto Farm I also have a weanling sister to Oakland and Frank Ruhstaller, by Bearcatcher Lavena C, a weanling bay colt by Tony Faust Avmna and a weanling black colt by Bearcatcher Lady Atiieliug, a sister to Grail, the dam of Passenger. This one belongs to Mayor W. II. Christy of Emeryville." Mr. Bianclii lias in training at Louisville Presumption, Turret, George Oxnard, Bay Cliff and seven two-year-olds. The latter are: Lady Lexington, br. f, by Hastings Lady Languish half-sister to Hamburg, by St. Simon. Irish Queen, ch. f, by Bearcatcher Maid of Fer-moy. Chestnut colt half-brother to Presumption, by Ormondale Proud Duchess. Chestnut lilly half-sister to Sir Wilfred, by Ormondale Plumeria. Chestnut colt brother to Star ORyan, by Oddfellow Uosiuante. Brown colt half-brother to Jim Basey. by Orsini Dora I. sister to Plumeria and May W.. Bay colt, by Bearcatcher Rcsiguatiou II. The older horses are going along nicely and the youngsters he says are real good prospects. Mr. Bianclii says lie will ship one of the older horses and a couple of the youngsters to Charleston next week, leaving the others at Louisville In charge of Oscar Kane and John OMalley, who have been with him for seventeen and fourteen years respectively. "I tell you," said Mr. Biauchi, "Shelby West has three nice yearlings in the string ho is training for Louis Doerhoefer. They are the brother to A. J. Small, the brother to Puggins and a colt by Ort Wells. Mary Davis is going along satisfactorily for him and so are Tomuiie Thompson and Ursula Emma. There is nothing at Louisville in the shape of a coming two-year-old that has anything on the brother to A. J. Small. He worked a quarter in 238 seconds in the mud and can run like the wind on the dry." Trainer Pete Coyne, who came over from Louisville to spend Christmas Day with his mother and sisters in this city, says the fourteen horses he is training at Churchill Downs for George J. Long, member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, are in good health and condition. Mr. Coyne is pointing Free Lance for the Kentucky Derby and has Nicias as a second string to his 1kw for that event. Free Lance is a four-time winner witli demonstrated ability to run over heavy, as well as dry tracks. Nicias is a maiden. Roth were bred by Mr. Long and were1 foaled at his Bashford Manor Stud, Free Lance lieing by Alvescot Merry Heart, a daughter of Sir Modred and Blithesome, and Nicias being by the Kentucky Derby winner. Sir Ilnon, out of Binda, the dam of Silesia and Enyoc. None of the Long horses will go to the winter meeting at Charleston. They will begin the campaign of 1012 when the spring meeting of the Kentucky Association opens here in April. Fletcher Driver says he will take up Plutocrat, Floral Day and the coming two-year-old bay colt by The Scribe, out of Anyday, now running out at the arm of his brother-in-law, James Stevens, and ship Sent to Churchill Downs about January 15 to get xtady for the spring campaign. Floral Day will he Mr. Drivers dependence for the Kentucky Oaks of 1012. He won this important event with her half-sister, Florcal, in 1000. Floral Day is by Nasturtium, while Floreal is by Alioway, both being out of Anyday, a sister to Caiman, the American-bred horse that holds the worlds record of l.Xll for one mile, made at Lingfield Park, Eng., in 1000. The colt by The Scribe is a good racing prospect. He is a well-made horse with considerable speed, having worked three-eighths of a mile in 3ljf seconds with 112 pounds up at the Kentucky Association track, where he was broken by James Stevens. Anyday had no produce tills year, but site is now in foal to Electioneer. Floreal is in foal to McGee. Her foal of 1011 is a big bay colt by Mcelick. By the winner of three Derby races and out of an Oaks winner, he should be a worthy individual. John E. Madden, the breeder of Meelick, lias a fancy for this colt, but Mr. Driver has shown no disposition to sell him. Superintendent James P. Ross of the Kentucky Association, is in receipt of a telegram from Vice-President W. F. Schulte of the Charleston Fair and Racing Association, requesting him to assure horsemen here that the plant will be ready for racing Jnnnary 10, and that there will be no postponement of the scheduled opening. Maj. Foxhall A. Daingerfield lias gone to New York to consult witli James R. Keene concerning his stud of thoroughbred horses and it is rumored that his visit may terminate in the subleasing of Kingston Farm from Clarence H. Mackay and the transfer of the Keene..-Jiorses from Castlctou Farm to that magnificent place. The nine-year-old thoroughbred mare Ophirdalo dam of Meltoudale has been sold by C. L. Harri son of New York to W. OB. MacDonough of California ami will be mated with Ormondale at John S. Barbees Glen Helen Stud.
