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: ■ i , - BLUE GRASS REGION GOSSIP. Budget of Newsy Items from Lexington — Pink Coat Shipped to New Tork. Lexington. Ky.. March 30. — Along with a lot of saddle and harness horses that left here for New York today by express in charge of John Miller, the veteran shipping agent, went the thoroughbred stallion l ink Coat Pink Coat was recentlv sold by J. Hal Woodford to Algernon Daingertiehl, assistant secretary of the New V..rk Jockey Club, who was acting for Willis Sharps Kilmer, the wealthy sportsman of ISinghampton. N. Y. It is understood that Mr. Kilmer intends to mate him with a number of good hunting mares this season with a view to producing cross-country mounts. Pink Coat is a horse with a historv. He was bred by Messrs. Woodford and Buckuer at their es- tablisbment in Bourbon County near Paris and was raced — CCeSSfnlly under their colors for five seasons. Pink Coat was foaled in 18th, being by Leouatus winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1883, out of Alice Brand, by Hindoo winner of the Kentucky Derby in lSSD. pink Coat started sixty-three times and won eighteen races and $"8,080. his prin- cipal victories being in the St. Louis Dcrbv and the American Derby of 189S and the Wheeler Handicap of P.I01. He was nine times second and twelve times third. He did not race as a four-year old and went into the stud when he was eight fears old. Two of Pink Coats sons arc Derby winners. Pink Star having won the Kentucky Derby of 1907 and 1inkola the Latonia Derby of 1908. Of the forty thoroughbred foals that are expected this season at James B. Haggins Elincndorf Farm eleven have already been dropped, and. unite peculiarly, iu view of the fact that the dams of Irs of them are chestnuts in color, the foals are all bays with the exception of one that is black. There are six fillies and five colts, as follows: Bay colt, bv Waterboy — Janice dam of Counterman and Statesman, by Midlothian. Pay colt, by Galveston— LyCbee Nut. bv Sir Mod-| red. Bay colt, by Star Ruby — Rosanua dam of Rose Arkle, by Sir Modred. Bay eolr. by Watercress — Captivity, by Star Ruby. Bay colt, by Watercress — Court Dance dam of Quadrille and Trois Temp, by Bosseao, Bay filly, by Goldfinch Grasiosa dam of Imitator. Lucille R. and Ella Brysoni. hv Pen All. Bay filly, by GalvestoH — Ogalala. by Isidor. liay filly, by Galveston — Clip Hook, by Watercress. Bay filly, by Toddingtoti — Solana dam of Fancy-Bird . by Salvator. Bay filly, by Canopus — Phida. bv Onondaga. Black filly, by Galveston— Barbary Belle, by Watercress. Hamburg Belle and Tradition, two of the grandest race mares now in the stud iu America, are both safely in foal, the former to Waterboy and the latter to Watercress. Prhseess Noretti Is shortly dii" to foal a brother or sister to Prince Gal, by Galveston. This mare has had the misfortune to lose the majority of her foals. None of her produce has lived to race since Prince Gal, her foal of 1906. John W. Davis, a well-known local trotting horseman, has secured the name Bornadotte for the two year old bay thoroughbred colt by Coutestor. dam Reality dam of Reputation, by Rensselaer; second dam Eon Mate sister to First Mate and dam of Fleming. Ben Foiiso. Nooks and Froken. by Fonso. Bornadotte was broken at the trotting track here last fall and ran an eighth in 11% seconds. Mr. Davis expects to have him ready to start at the Kentucky Associations spring meeting, which will open April 27. The name is after the recently dead trotting stallion. Bernadotte, that was owned by John and Emerson Cochran and afterward passed to Mr. Davis. Charles McCrackea, who was superintendent of the Mlllstream Stud when the grand collection of thoroughbreds, iiu luding the stallion Adam, owned by Messrs. Miller and Bishop, of New York, was lo cated af Oekwood Earni, is now in charge of the mares at Thomas Fortune Ryans farm in Virginia. James Harass, who spent a portion of last year in charge of the broodmares in August Belmonts stud in France, has returned to Kentucky and is employed at Ulniondorf. He says the climate did not agree with him. The secretaries of he Kentucky tracks will be requested by the horsemen this season to give more races this year for maidens exclusively — tor three-year-old maidens in the spring and two year old maidens in the fall. It is argued that such races will i.e w 11 patronised. Frank Taylor is making preparations to ship the II. C. Hsllenbech stable from Aiken. S. C. and it is undeist 1 that he will COBM direct to Lexington. Walter S. Payne. Sr.. Bared 7!. owner of MapletOU Farm and for many years a leading breeder of thoroughbred horses and blooded stork of all kind-, died of Bright.- disease in the St. Joseph Hospital here this afternoon. • Col. E. F. Clay, chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission and owner of the Runnyroed • stud of thoroughbreds, is critically ill at his bom... near Paris. Coloacy Clay returned last week from Florida, where he spent Hie winter, and the day of his arrival being raw and wet, he caught a severe cold that has put his life in jeopardy.
