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WILLIAM LAKELAND DIES IN EAST. Xew York. February ::. William Lakeland, who began his connection with the thoroughbred turf as a jockev and afterwards became prominent as a trainer and owner, died yesterday in St. .Mary s Hospital, in Brooklyn, from the effects of a complication of diseases, at the age or U years. He trained the celebrated Domino for J. K. and I . 1. Keene when that horse made the wouderful ".cord of winniug 70,800 as a two-year-old in 180... a record that stands unapproached. lie first caino into real prominence as an owner and train-r when Exile won the Brooklyn Handicap of 1SS0. He belonged In the old coterie of eastern trainers, including such men as James Kowe, Thomas Welsh, John W. Rogers J. J. Hyland, J. II. McCormick the last-named three of whom are dead and others of that jM-riod that were eminently successful. William Lakeland was otic of the host horsemen this country has produced. Two instances in his career as trainer are notable. One was when he won a handicap at Brighton Beach, about the third race, with Exile, and then walked the horse across to Sheopshead Bay both of which were then tracks running in opposition and heat Barnuin in at" miles and The other a cup race two a quarter. was a similar double victory achieved a few years later, though not on the same day, with that high-class, but bad-tempered and erratic horse. Tea Tray. Lakeland won a li.mdiean at Brighton Beach with Tea Tray on the Saturday, put him on a boat, shipped him to Long Beach and won the Fourth of Julv Handicap at the old .Monmouth Park track with him on the .Monday following. Willi sm-h a horse as Tea Tray this was no mean feat, for in those days the Fourth of July Handicap always brought out high-class fields, and it was just about as hard to win as a Brooklyn or Suburban was in the zenith ol Xew York racing. Mr. Lakeland maintained to the day of his death a training establishment at Brighton Beach, adjoining the Brighton Beach track. He was intimately associated with the elder Eugenian. and was als-i actively engaged in the sport at iiittenbiirg, during the period when racing flourished at that Xew Jersey track. lie amassed a fortune long ago. thanks to his skill as a trainer, but the fascination .that racing often holds for men who have had similar success operated to keep him identified witli the .-qiort to the end of his days. His last notable success was scored when Electioneer won the Futurity of F.IOt; in his colors. He engaged in breeding the thoroughbred in a modest way in his later years, but without marked success.
