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DEATH OF A KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER. C. E. Hamiltons bay gelding. Stone Street, foaled HIC5. by Lungstreet Stonenellie, by Stonehenge, jumped out of his paddock at I.ongwood Farm, near 1. a Ionia, recently, and. In running over the farm, became entangled in a wire fence and cut a hind u lHlmi. lie was :nit to death in : painless manner to relieve his sulTering. Stone Streets most notable racing performance was the winning of tlie Ken-ticky Derby of 1JI0S over a muddy track, with Sir Cleges second and Dunvegan third, lie hardly measured up to the standard of other horses that won the Kentucky Derby, but was a useful plater and frequent winner throughout his racing career. John Hamilton, who was interested with C. E. Hamilton in tlie ownership of the horse, writes concerning him as follows: "We were hopeful of his training again and starting during the coining summer. There was a good deal of sentiment surrounding this horse, and we feel his loss keenly. He was one of the horses that proves a mud runner will change, and become a fast track runner exclusively. In his two and three-year-old form, he was a wonderful horse in the mud, but at four, five and six years old, he would not run a lick in the mud, but wanted a past-board track on which he could run winning races. "He was a wonderful horse In many respects, and a most spectacular racer. 1 have seen him several times trail so far behind that his case looked absolutely hopeless. Once I saw him one-sixteenth of a mile out of it, before they reached the half mile ground, going one and one-eighth miles; he ran the last half in :47, timed by several trainers, anil won the race pulled up by two lengths, ridden by Teddy Hice. It was a wonderful performance. Many races I have seen him In were just run and won like this. Had lie been a sound horse, there is no telling how fast he could have run. As it was, lie could run one and one-eighth miles in 1:51 to 1 :52. and a mile from stand to stand going one and one-sixteenth miles, or one and one-eighth miles in 1:.TT or l:;;s. "We have some consolation in the loss of him, however, bv owning his half-brother by Toddiiigton Stonenellie; named Stonington, bought last fall at the Latonia sales. We also have a close relative in blood to our other old campaigner Gold Proof, also lKuight at these sales. This colt Is by Cunard. nit of Tinker, Jim Arthurs old mare that won many purses and slakes. Tinker is by Handspring, out of a Kingston man. On both the dams and sires side, this colt is bred almost identically like Gold Proof. We have; named this colt Water Proof. We have another colt, named after our homo place, I.ongwood by name, by Stalwart Young Thistle, a Iliinyar mare, which we thought well of, but he was "unfortunate during the entire year of 101." and conies into 1014 as a three-year-old maiden, having never started. Wander is doing well and is turned out for the winter at Mr. Tom Nichols farm near Paris." Stone Streets racing record is as follows: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. ad. Unp. Won. 1907 2 17 :i . 1 10 $ 1.430 phis 25 :; 1 r. if. 5,S2S 1!0! 4 20 Ii 7 1 0 1,50 1!1 5 10 1 4 0 5 017 1111 0 20 8 2 2 S .5,070 Totals 5 02 IS 17 0 48 2,S21
