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YEARLINGS SENT EAST FOR SALE. Lexington. Ky.. August 12. Four carloads of thoroughbred yvurlings. the majority of them to be sold next Saturday, but others to be broken and trained by .their present owners, will leave here for Saratoga Monday. In the shipment will be one car containing Charles W. Moores Mere Hill Stud yearlings, while in the otiier three will be those belonging to John S. Barbee, Capt, T. J. Clav, E. R. Bradley, C. C. Patrick, T. C. Bradley and Andrew Bowman, all to be sold; five for Andrew Miller and three for Howard Lewis, to go into training. The good horse Cosmic will also be in the shipment. There also will 1r three handsome yearlings from S. C. Lynes Larchmont Stud. Two are slashing big colts by Plaudit, one ont of Country Fraud dain of Startling. Rosemary and Compton, and the other out of Black Banner dam of Daisy Piatt and Til-lotson. while the filly is by ,Sain Pirate Polly dam of Skeets and Dr. Larriek. The Country Fraud colt is a counterpart of Plaudit, while the other colt is of the type of Himyar and the filly much resembles the good mare Lady Amelia. Mr. Lyne will leave here tomorrow morning for Saratoga. Messrs. Moore, Barbee, Patrick, Clay and the others will leave here Monday. J. C. Milam, who is in the market for several good youngsters, left here Thursday afternoon. Thomas Piatt already has been in the list of buyers and the four youngsters knocked down to him at the recent sales arrived here this morning to be turned out at his farm. In the car were five purchased by John AV. Schorr, to be broken by J. S. Hawkins, and one which was sent out to John E. Maddens Hamburg Place. The Board of Directors of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse Association will meet with the New York, Maryland and Canadian committees of .that organization of lovers of the thoroughbred horse and the sport Of racing, in the United States Hotel at Saratoga next Monday night, to discuss a number of matters for the betterment of conditions on the turf, including the subject of a uniform rule governing selling and claiming races and the disposition of the runup money. Secretary Thomas B. Cromwell will leave here tomorrow morning to attend the meeting. He today issued a bulletin containing a list of the membership to August 1 and other information, concerning the purposes of the organization and proposals that have been made by its directors, to be submitted to the membership meeting which will be held in Lexington Saturday evening, September 9. One of these is that the articles of incorporation be amended to change the name to the Thoroughbred Horse Association, dropping the word Kentucky because of the wide extension of its work and membership. Another proposal is to admit women to membership,, and another is for the adoption of a button by which members may be distinguished. Tin; membership now numbers 4GS, with a waiting list of thirty-nine, a number of whom will be admitted at the meeting of the directors in Saratoga. Racing Secretary AVill H. "Shelley today sent the program book for the Kentucky Associations fall race meeting of ten days, beginning September 0, to the printer. He expects it to be off the press and ready for distribution by Wednesday or Thursday. The racing officials for the fall meeting will be the same as in the spring Capt. T. J. Clay and secretary G. I. AVilson in the stand; Harry Morris-sey. starter, and AV. II. Shelley, racing secretary, with John S. AVallace clerk of the scales and in charge of entries. J. C. Milams sovoh-year-old mare Kate K., by Peep oDay Wantage, died this week.
