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SIGNS OF SPRING AT LEXINGTON. Ti amirs Begin to Give Their Hsrse* Mild Exercise at the Kentucky Associations Course. Lexington, Ky., Februarj 15. The six taro-yeai olds owned by Messrs. Woodford and /.eke Clay of Paris and in milling under the direction of Kreuca Brooks at the Kentucky Association track, are ■ likable collect! f young ruuniug horses. The chestnut coll l . Star Shoot out of Marie Frances appears lo be the choice ol the Majority of the rkrttori to the course. 1 1 • - i of the perfect English type, built along speed] lines. Notwithstanding tlie fad thai all of these youngsters look sick before they could be given their nn.tl yearling trials last fall, reallj before they were in ■ state of nrepaar lion for trials, this coll ran ■ quarter In :-::.-,. The brother to Ocean Bound, the hay coll by Star Shoot - Flying Ship, is shaped sosaenrbat 1 i K ■ ■ bis distin guished sister and has her way of going when no. n the track, lie ran i quarter, pulling up. In :24. He has the distinction of being the only male foal out of seven from bis dam. a powerfully nude lilly is ill,- baj slater !•• Memories, by Star Shoot -Lady Elite. She i- compact and fall of vim and rigor, she was aol seal ■ quarter al speed last fall, bat aha wen an eighth la Ml1... The baj gelding by Knight Brraat out of Rose Tree, a splendid English mare thai was brought over In 1902 by Edward Canigan. is compactly made, nicely turacil. aeaaewbat on the Men Brush order, lias good tn u manuers and will make a serviceable racing tool. In every way be seems ■ decided improvement upon his sire. The chestnut coll bj stat Shoot— Orange and Blue, a daughter ol Bridge water and Bed and Blue, is a bivr horse that went a quarter in :J4 tat fall. The baj lill.v bj Knight Errant — Outcome is the least attractive ol the party, yet she possesses considerable speed. John o. Whitlow, the well known racing plater and developer ol the speedy, though ill fated, Irfanab, lias at the local track ■ couple of two-yearmMs that are .ipi i.. put him on essy Btreel again. The a *c both bred by Robert 11. Anderson al t lie Teas Over stud in Bcotl County. One Is a half-brother lo Anderson, being ■ brown colt bj Stalwart -Paradise Won. and the other is a balf-sibier to The Hague, being ■ Mack fillj bj Dick Flnnell Peace. The colt, i big boned, good-looking individual, bas worked ;i quarter in :23, and the filly, constructed i n speed] lines, bas been a quarter in :-••-.-,. The horses hi the local track are all in perfect health. There m something over 200 horses in the barn-. which is more than usual for tins period of the rear, and the number will be considerably increased bj March I. The track is in excellent eon dttlon for the mild exercise thai the trainers are now dailj giving their charges. If weather conditions continue thus favorably, the Lexington trained racers wlD be ready for the bugle as earlj ,i- those in preparation :,i other point-. T. c. McDowell -ltd lodaj thai be will lake n The Manager about .March I. There is now little doubj that the foui year-old son of Voter and Brace girdle will -land training. His ailment bas all t n i *-vanished and it is believed thai then, will be no return of the trouble to the leg that was under Eusplclou. Jockey Bryan Steele returned I ■ Lexington from Juares this week and i- bow exercising the horse-. of Johnson N. Camden, his contract employer. A it Steele, bis rather, will leave Mondaj tor Louh vdle with ftve horses to lie trained al Churchill how i;- Danberry, John l . Wakefield Battling .Wi son. Thomas Calloway 1 1 in two-year-old brother to Thomas i ilium and Old Crump, the two-year-oM son oi Allan n hii and French .Nun. comprise the string. Mr, ste,.|e ha- removed all ol bbj bouse bold effects lo i he farm he recentlj purchased near l.a Grange, which is to be his borne in future-. C. w. Rekllnger, who has I farm near this city. seal Oreen and a two-year-old by Leoaldas to tie track this week and will train them himself P. Sheridan who ha- Back Hay and Rubicon II. al the local track, returned this week from Hot Springs, where he sojourned for two months for treatment for rheumatism. Through the recent death of Mrs. Maggie C. t i gnson, Claude s. BrowneTl, who owned Satsuma and other good racers, and who in later years was I bookmaker, has some 14,000 or .Sa.nno awaiting biia here. 1U-- friends in Lexington do not know hi- p resent address, lie i- not at either of the winter trai k-. Jockey Luciea Lyae, who speal the greater por t i"ti of the winter with bis parents and sisters and I brothers here, lefl t li is- week for Belgium, where i. • i- to ride again this rear. The racing stable of President Catesby Woodford I of the Kentucky Association, numbering twelve horses, in charge of trainer 1.. B. Dicker son, was ; shipped from here to Louisville today to be prepared I at Churchill I towns for spring racing in Keotockj The lenses have been in private training for about two mouths on the farm of Walter s. Payne, near lliis cltj and are in tine condition. The string i-niade i up of Christmas Star. Rose of .leddah. Fori i Sumter, Peter Grlaun. Hilly Holder. Crazy Quilt i and the following two-year-olds: Chestnut colt, by • Cesarion Sweet Eileen; ebestmal colt, by Cesarion i Ethel Levy: chestnut gelding bj Cesarion Katie . Ilavliu; brown lilly. by Cesarion I.Mlia II.: brown i tilh . bj Cesarion Cbinela; ebesthui gelding brother to Auto Bun, by Maria Saata Maude Fealy. .. B. Re-p.— ■- Woedlawn Belle foiled a bay coll i by Dick Welle- .1 Thoina- Piatts farm this week. • George It. oils Big Goose dropped ■ baj Blly by stalwart last night. This Is a half-brother to Golden Egg and The Gander, one of the most prom Islng two-year-olds at the local track. i:. T. Wilsons Otambala arrived here from New Yotk this week to go into the stud al Klrklevlngton i Farm. Dr. E. W. Hagyard. veterinarian surgeoa, has re turned from Portland, ore., to re-form his partnership with Dr. -laiues T. Shannon. K. Littles live Acs. by Disguise, ha- arrived i lure to hi- mated with Sain.
