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LEXINGTON MEETING ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL Quality of Racing Good and Financial Showing Satisfying Blue Grass Gossip fejtlngton Ivy May 4 From its untoward bs Innlng a week ago owing to the wet disagreeable weather and muddy track the Kentucky Associa ¬ tions spring meeting has financially speaking pro ¬ gressed to i stage considerably in advance of the lirst HCVCII days of last years meeting The racing iHi lias been of a high order in fact rather more interesting on the whole than has been customary here This is particularly true of the races for woyearolds and of the handicaps There are as was forecasted In these columns more youngsters of obd quality in Kentucky this season than in any vear for more than a decade and this will be aiore forcibly demonstrated at Louisville and still inore so at Latouia The threeyearold division is if KIII too with such good material available as nhe Manager Worth Sprite Sonada Bnckhorn Vzviadc Lady Lightning and others of quality riiere are numerous horses four years old and up iviril that will furnish thrilling contests in the handicaps and condition races of the next two twoUTlirevents UTlirevents of the week here and at Louisville I in vis made the situation as regards the running of tin Kentucky Derby and Its probable result at fliiirchlll Downs next Saturday so complex that at tills writing It would be folly to attempt a prog liiiKticatlon with hope of seeing it sustained The sickness of The Manager was the first of the kaleido Jrinic changes that upset opinions and left the ablest riclng students in the mire of doubt and uncertainty Then followed In order Sonadas Improved running Cracker Boxs going wrong Worths disappointing nerformance and the attending suspicion of lameness jiiul next Wheelwrights establishment of a glimmer of hopo that even he might have a chance if he can i worked into condition to go a mile and a quarter lv next Saturday These things may in the en1 test that was looked forward to in the first meeting of The Manager and Worth but it is still the aim and purpose of the owners and trainers of both these colts to get them to the post for the Derby and because of the things that have happened this week other owners have taken heart and now will go in where before they fancied they had no chance chanceThe The unbeaten twoyearold Hawthorn that has a string of seven victories including the Iroquois Stakes here last Tuesday has been variously dis ¬ cussed by those who saw him win his five races at Juarez and those who saw him take two in the muddy going here The eople who were at Juarez where the track was always dry and fast declare that they have observed no youngster in Kentucky as yet that is capable of taking the measure of the son of Hastings and White Thorn while those who saw him only in his two races at the Kentucky Ass sociation track are somewhat divided in their opin ¬ ions and expressions Some are quite agreed with the Juarez idea but many more are willing to wager that he will have his measure taken in the Bash fordManor Stakes at Louisville May 1C if not Ixsforc Since Helios won the Breeders Futurity there are some who arc saying that this Star Shoot Hindoo Itosu gelding will be equal to the task of taking the son of Hastings by the head and leading him home Some others have the notion that For ¬ ward can give him a beating right now and there are others still who profess to believe that even Christmas Star and the as yet uncolored McCorkle can accomplish the task Trainer Bill Trevey however smiles good humoredly and declares upon his honor that lie doesnt know how good a colt Hawthorn is You see this colt may be a hound I dont know said he Hevbas so much speed that he has been able to run away from any and all he has met up to date and he has won all of his races with so much ease that it Is simply inv possible to figure what he will do when he comes in contact with one that can look him In the eye for an appreciable part of the route He may have some dog In him and tell the other fellow to take it I hope however that he has not and I want to say that if he is really ajid truly game with all the speed he possesses there is no telling how long un may run before he is defeated defeatedThere There was one feature of the Breeders Futurity that is worthy of comment for the consideration of students of breeding It is the fact that then were three of the get of Colonel Clays imported Star Shoot in the race and they each got a piece of the money Helios winning Christmas Star being third and Solar Star fourth the conditions stipulat ¬ ing that the fourth horse should save his starting fee of 75 Another incident worthy of note is that Ileiios and Christmas Star are both out of Hindoo mares the former lining a son of Hindoo Rose and the latter a daughter of Breakwater BreakwaterNaushon Naushon the good fouryearOld son of Yankee and Royal Gun has been retired to the stud R T Wilson sent him to Kentucky last week and he is now at the Kirklevington Farm near this city to he mated with eight mares Including LAIouette which Mr Wilson has there in charge of Oscar Brown Among BrownAmong the yearlings at August Belmonts noted Nursery Stud is a brother to Hawthorn He is of a blockicr type and generally a better made horse than Is his illustrious twoyearold brother It Is not likely that anyone will get him for 000 tho price Mr Clyde paid for Hawthorn Johnson N Camden owns a yearling halfsister to Helios that he says is larger now than is the winner of the Breeders Futurity This filly is by Plaudit Hindoo Kose was cast off by Mr Camden last fall being knocked down to William Scully of this city for 55 and later sold by him to Thos B Cromwell a local newspaper man for 123 and she is now in his possession She has no foal this season and has not boon mated as yet She will probably go again to the court of Star Shoot
