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1 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 ! . 1 1 , » 1 1 , 1 I i 1 i , i I 1 I i i 1 | I i i ; ; ; ; 1 1 ; ; ; •, ; 1 ; . MANY ASSURANCES TO MANAGER WINN. Leading Eastern Owners Promise to Take Part in the Churchill Downs Meeting. LI Paso. Texas, February 13. — During his recent vistl to the east Manager Winn had the promise from many prominent turfmen that they would make entries in the stakes at Churchill Downs the coming spring and he expects a record-breaking entry list in the Derby. Among the many turfmen of distinction who may be represented in the nig event by their crack three-year-olds are: Harry Payne Whitney. James Butler. John San-ford. G. A. Cochran. Andrew Miller. Jefferson I.iv-Ingston, A. II. Morris. John Whalen. John W. Schorr. Schuyler Parsons. E. R. Bradley. W. R. Cue. McKinney and Corrigan. II. C. Hallenbeck. A. B. Hancock, James F. Johnson. George J. Long. Thomas C. McDowell. J. B. Madden. Woodford Clay. James MacManus. Foxhall P. Keene. A. Belmont. T. P. Hayes. George M. Hendrie. C. II. Maok.ty. R. T. Wilson. Thomas Hitchcock. W. K. Knapp, Thomas F. Ryan, George Wingtield and A. K. M.ieonibcr. It is not generally known that John Graham in the seasons of his four, five and six-year-old form was turned out on a ranch and did the service . for a time at least, of a work animal, and then came back on the lurf as a seven year-old and from then on earned his way in racing. This. however, is the record of this, now nine-year old gelding, which is racing sound and since the lir-i of the present year has won twice here. John Graham hist raced as a two-year-old in 1909 and in the three times he raced at that age was once first and on e second. In 1910. as a three year-old, he raced thirteen times and while he osdy once won he ran four times second and three times third. Then came the three years he was ,rf the turf. He came back in 1914 and won four races and over ..0fl0 in money for his owner. Last year he won live races in twenty-four starts and was in the money in thirteen of the races in which he was beaten. As noted alxive he has started to make it another winning year. The life of John Graham goes to shew that a horse can come back after a long retirement and race well, but it must Ik- admitted that he is one of the few that has come back a better horse than ever before in his career. Though appearing in the Stud Rook as of double-sire parentage John Graham is undoubtedly bv Moilrcd, a sou of Sir Moored and Lass OBrae, by Barrator, while his dam. Lecavja, raced well and has a stout pedigree. Her latest foal to race is Tom Knight, by Modred, which was a two-year-old winner in 1913. Wade Mcl.oinore has had the ill fortune to lose by death two of the three foals dropped at his Texas breeding ranch so far this year. All the foals he has had to date are l y Leonid and the two which died wore both colts. One was ;t brother to his great mare Meadow and the other was out of the young mare Kiora. The living foal there is a filly out of Roscvale. He regard- the loss of the brother to Meadow keenly, as nil of Dolly Daymans foals are looked upon by him as valuable assets, Mol.eniore had intended lo send Meadow to Kentucky to lie bred this year. He had in mind mating her to Luke Mcl.uke. but his letter to the parties now controlling that Ken- tucky Handicap winner has never been answered, and when he left here for his breeding ranch be was undetermined Just what horse to send the mare to. He may decide to let her remain in Texas this year and make arrangements to mate her next year to the most noted of all present American bred sires. Broomstick, if he can persuade Harry Payne Whitney to accept the mare as a gue-t at his Brookdale breeding stud. Meadow has the rizlit to be ranked with the really good mares of the turf. No matter what her record was over other tracks, one winter at the Juarez course she eras invincible at any weight, or any distance. There are horseim n who believe that in the winter of 1910-1911. over the Juarez course, she could have. beaten any mare ever stripped to race in America in a race at a mile and over. She won over a considerable distance with 140 pounds up and she still holds two track records 011 this course. In her late racing she soured a bit on the track, but in the stud she is an ideal broodmare. That she will l e a good producer seems a certainty as her conformation is of that which suggo-ts a stud queen. Her first foal, now a yearling, is regarded by her owner a- Iho 111 -1 promising youngster lie ever had foaled at his breed- bag ranch, and this yearling he moans to nominate in all the big two-year-old stakes run in America in 1917.
