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I , ; ; . MEANS HIGH CLASS RACING SANF0RD AND MAC0MBER HORSES PREPAR-ING FOR CAMPAIGN ON KENTUCKY TRACKS. Star Hawk and Hesperus to Be Kentucky Derby Candidates — Many Stables Being Taken Up for Early Training. Lexington, Ky., January 29. — John Bhafotd, the master of Hurricaua Stud, according to a letter received from him this week by Secretary ;. I». Wilson, will begin his racing campaign of 1910 at Lexington. He made a request for stake blanks and a reservation of stalls for the string Preston Rurch will prepare at Charleston. Another whose hirsts will campaign in Kentucky this year is A. K. Maconiber. a wealthy young Call fornian. who hoaght last fall in England from J. B. Joel, three three-year-olds and thirteen two-fear obis, which are counted the best single collection of thoroughbreds for racing purposes to have crossed the Atlantic in many years. This slrins is now at Charleston in charge of Walter R. Jennings and it is known here that this highly-experienced hSfsesaaa considers them far superior lo any string of horses of like age he has over t.riained. Jennings not long ago told a friend from I.oington. who stopped at the South Carolina metropolis to see him and his horses, that he has no doubt that Mr. Maconiber will realize his hope far the development of a great stock horse out .f this string. It may be that the slashing bay colt Star Hawk, which has been picked to carry the new owners colors in the Kentucky Derby, will prove the most valuable of the collection for breeding purposes. He is a son of Sunstar and Sweet Pinch sister to Caaard and 0,000 was paid fir him by Mr. Maconiber. A second string to the gentlemans bow for the Derby will be Hesperus. a brown colt by Sunstar out of Our Lassie, an Oaks winner. The Cook is the name of the oilier tlhree-year-old. He is a chestnut colt by Poessia, out of a daughter "1 the Derby winner Volodyoski. The following is a list of the thirteen two year-olds, ten of which are fillies, which, it is said, are intended for breeding pssmaasa at Waluut Hall Farm when their racing days are over: Bay colt by Sunflower II. — Waterweed. Ray colt by Sunstar— Dreamy. Ray or brewn colt by Sunstar — Our Lassie. Ray filly by Sunflower II. — Lavierge. Bay filly by Suntlower II. — Rright Cherry. Bay Ally by Sunflower II. — All Green. Bay filly by Sunstar — Marian Baud. Bay filly by Roquelaure — Sweet Maiden. Rav filly bv Ruckwheat — Monev Down. Brown filly by Sunstar— St. Olive. Chestnut filly by Suntlower II. — Fair Lassie. Chestnut filly by Sunstar — Sweet Story. Chestnut filly by Cicero — Prepare. James Hukill will this year train the thoroii.h-breds that are to carry the colors of J. Hal We Iford. of Paris. He was here this week and made arrangements with superintendent James P. Ross for stalls for six horses, one of which will be the good mare Droll, ha will bring to the Keu-tiiekv Association course from Bourlion County next Monday. Hukill. for several years past, trained and drove trotlers. but he is not lacking in experience with the runners. Howard Oofs, who trained the J. Hal Wood ford racers for several years, has a string of twenty-seven, including fourteen English two-year olds, which are to run in his name and which are keeping him busy at the local track. James Stevens will come to the track Meaday with four horses, including Wadsworths Lust. Thomas C. McDowell is confined to his home with la grippe. J. W. Parrish lias secured Midway as the aasae for the two-year-old chestnut colt by Rallot Thirty-Third dam of Path horn. Midway is the name of the town on the outskirts of which Par rish has a fine home. Midway is half-way between Lexington and Frankfort, in Woodford County, "the asparagus bed of Kentucky" as Senator Joe Black -burn calls it. Midway was bred by Clay Blathers and was the star of their sale at Tattersalls iu September. Parrish paid 83.009 for him. Be is eligible to the local Breders Futurity and to the Futurity. "Farmer Bill- Scully, who has been here all winter, has Pin Money and his two-year-old sister. a likely-looking filly by Rryn Mawr — Pins a, id Needles, in training at the Kentucky Association course. Pin Money is doiag well. William Wallace and J. W. May will ship their strings to Louisville next week. Wallace has Big Smoke, with which be hopes to win the Kentucky Derby, and the useful Pockichoo. May ha- live horses including Cohmic. Rayberry Candle. Malabar, Onota and a two-year-old colt by Masetto.
