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PROMINENT TURFMAN DIES AT LEXINGTON. Lexington. Kv. February 21. Gus Has tin, aged 7!t, one of the oldest and most prominent of American turfmen, died at his home in this city last night after a brief illness of pneumonia. .Mr. Kastin was at one time the senior member of the firm of Eastin fc Larabie. which owned and raced many good horses, including Kinley Mack, the first horse to win both the Brooklyn aud Suburban Handicaps. Mr. Kastin was well to do aud left a valuable estate, which will be divided among several cousins and nieces. He was unmarried and was a veteran of the Civil War. Mr. Eastin retained a keen interest in the turf to the end of his life. While in attendance at the races at Churchill Downs not long ago lie told a few friends how lie came to go into racing. Ife became acquainted with a Montana millionaire. S. R. Larabie, while he was in the grocery business in Lexington and also farming on a small scale. While visiting Deer Lodge, Mr. Larabies home town in Montana, the latter showed Mr. Eastin the famous old mare Christine and said to him, "Eastin. that mare is too good for this country out here, as she has alreadv thrown two good winners in Bonnie Australian "and Vice Regent and I want you to take her to Kentucky aud keep her for me.". Mr. Eastin brought the mare home with him, traveling all the way with her in a box car. The following spring Mr Larabie wrote him that if thp mare had a colt he would be pleased to have Eastin accept half interest in the suckling and perhaps his part of the colts winnings would pay him for the trouble in bringing her from Montana to Kentucky. The mare did have a chestnut colt, which developed into the brilliaut racer, Montana Regent, that won on the turf a forluue for both Eastin and Larabie. Then thev soon became full-fledged racing and breeding partners and their stables success was phenomenal. U is doubtful if their record in sending sensational race horses to the iost from a mere handful of broodmares will ever be duplicated. From Poet Scout to Kinley Mack no season passed but they had a good horse, the list embracing, among others besides those already referred to. Montana Regent. High Tariff. High Order. Ben Holladay. Shipmate, Trolley. Julia L. and First Mate. Mr. Larabie, many times a millionaire, still lives in Montana, but has extensive business Interests elsewhere. i : i i ! ! i , : ! i 1 ;
