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COL W E APPLEGATE ONE OF KENTUCKYS LEADING TURFMEN AND LAYERS OF ODDS COL W E APPLEGATE is at present in trnstril in some good race horses as owner and jiurt owner the extremely fast young ware Hound tlit World serving as a specimen In fact it lias been his custom for a quarter of a century or more to lie interested and in the possession of horses perfectly able to take their own part in good company on any race track from which it may correctly be deduced that Colonel W E is justly entitled to a front rank membership in the order of Veterans of the Turf In his days he has travelled afar and few are the race tracks of importance where he has not at one time and another figured us an owner or a iKxikmaker But in the main his operations in both lines of endeavor have been in the west The Kentucky tracks and the Chicago tracks when racing was nourishing here used to be his spring summer and autumn stamping grounds while for a nnmlier of years he conducted the field books at the winter meet ¬ ings held at the Oakland race track across the bay from San Francisco When California rac ¬ ing was abolished by hostile legislation lie adopted the Juarez track as the scene of his winter racing and for several seasons has fared quite well there but not so weI as he did in tin booming dnyfc of Oakland racing the Held books at that popular course furnishing ox trejuely lucrative returns returnsIf If as has been reported Hound the World is rounding into the good form that ijiarked her racing two years ago it is quite probable the Applegate stable is destined to play a conspic ¬ uous part in the nearathand Kentucky cam ¬ paign Keady and good she is a host in her ¬ self but aside from her Flying Feet Lack rose and Gilpy are serviceable race horses and the stable is reputed to l e formidable in Its twoyearolds Of these Gladys Y by MilJer Expressing Ooina by Cesarion Sncerwell and Old Ben by Hen Brush Commune won well at Juarez but it is more than probable the best in the stable were reserved to fly at higher game in the valuable events for horses oC their age at Lexington Douglas Park Churchill Downs and Latonia AST to Round the World it can be said that she was ailing last rear and ill consequence could be raced but little A long rest reported to have proved l eneiicial resulted ami she may race in her best form again That form was high class indeed When a twoyearold sins won twelve out of twentyfour rayes arid was but four times unplaced As a three yearold she stirted in twentyeight races and won thirteen Her speed was of the highest order am her racing was in competition with the Iwst of her time It canreadily 1 e perceived that he may prove an interesting factor to be considered if she comes to the races restored to her oldtime Ueetness It is the really good racer that drawn the general public to the race track and the return of such a real star as Itound the World could not fail to add to the attractiveness of the forthcoming campaign in Ken ¬ tucky tuckyAs As will be perceived from his portrait herewith presented Colonel Applegate is a goodlooking man lie has also always proved himself n sagacious man in his avocations and as a consequence is well endowed with the means of passing through lifes affairs comfortably
