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MACOMRERS EXTENSIVE RACING STRING. New Turfman Will Have Fifty Horses Stabled at Churchill Downs Presently. Louisville. Ky., August 30. The seventeen yearlings recently imported from England by A. K." Ma-comber, with two other youngsters of this age. bought by him during the recent Saratoga sales, ami six English-bred two-year-olds, have arrived at Churchill Downs and joined the seven yearlings he already had there in charge of William IIeed. The two-year-olds shipped here with the yearlings were Paieincs. Sunbeam, Walnut Hall, Ir-mello. Verdent and Fell Swoon. All the other older horses in this string, as well as a number of two-year-olds, in all eighteen head, are now at Belmont Park in trainer W. B. Jennings care and will reach here on September 12. which is six days before the opening or the coming autumn meeting at Douglas Park. Macomber will have at the Downs track-here an even number of fifty horses, twentv-four of which are old enough to participate in the big Ken-lucky autumn meetings. The band of thoroughbreds in training that Macomber will have housed here in the next few davs represents already an outlay of more than a quarter of a million dollars. It is the biggest investment in thoroughbreds that any American turfman has put in horse flesh in recent years, since James Butler and the firm of Corrigan and McKinney put the thousands they placed in the business a year or two ago. As this California turfman is still buying, there seems no limit, apparently as to what his investment will ultimately be in this business. It may come to pass that in a few years he will be known in his operation in thoroughbred horses as the then J. B. Ilaggin of the running turf. For the first time a complete list of the horses in training of all ages owned by A. K. Macomber and which are under the supervision of trainer W. i. Jennings and will all be in Kentucky in a few tlays is given below: Ed Crump, eh. e, -1. by Peep oDay Evaline, by Deceiver. Hank ODay. br. g, 4, by Beep oDay Eric Belle. Dick Williams, br. g, 3, by Dick Finnell Annie Williams. Podge, b. c, 3, by Jim Gaffney Flora Will-oughby by Florist. Hesperus, br. c, 3, by Sunstar Our Lassie, by Ayrshire. Star I lawk, b. c, 3, by Sunstar Sweet Finch, by Goldfinch. The Cock, cli. c, 3, by Ioussin Volodyovski, by Wise Saw. Kittenish, b. f, 2, by Roquelaure Sweet Maiden. Stargazer, b. c, 2, by Star Shoot Busy Maid, by Meddler. Semincle King, ch. c, 2, by Star Shoot Belle of Glendale. Fell Swoop, br. c, 2, by Star Shoot Okitau, by Phi nudes. Star Master, ch. e, 2, by Star Shoot Lady in Blue, by Ilimyar. Suiibonnet, b. f, 2 by Sunstar Marian Hood, by Martagun. Love Story, ch. f, 2, by Sunstar Sweet Story. Pleiades, br. f, 2, by Sunstar St. Olive, by St. Simon. Kick In. b. f, 2. by Buckwheat Money Down. Hollister. br. c, 2, by Sunstar Our Lassie. Verdent. b. f, 2, by Sunflower II. All Green, by G ret n Lawn. Sisaga, ch. f, 1. by Sunflower II. Fair Lassie. Ormello, b. f, 2, by Sunflower II. La Vierge. Walnut Hall. b. e, 2, by Sunflower II. Water-weed, by Watercress. Sunbeam, b. f, 2 by Sunflower II. Bright Cherry, by Ayrshire. Paieincs, br. c, 2, by Sunstar Dream-, by Persimmon. Chestnut filly. 2, by Cicero Prepare. Brown colt, 1, by Sunstar Verne, by Bill of Portland. Bay colt. 1. by Sunflower II. Lady Portland, by P.ill or Portland. Bay colt, 1, by Sunflower II. Sun Glass, by Isinglass. Bay filly, 1, by Sunstar Eugenia, by Royal Hampton. Bay filly, 1, by Sunflower II. Our Girl, by Worcester. Bay filly, 1, by Sunstar Waterweed. Bay colt, 1, by Sunstar Cannie Lassie, by Ayrshire. Bay colt. 1. by Polymelia Dreamy. Bay filly, 1. by Sunstar Sweet Lassie, by Orme. Bay filly, 1 by Sunstar St. Olive. Bay colt, 1, by Sir Geoffrey Sunshine Girl, by Sundridge. Chestnut colt. 1. by Sunder Sweet Finch. Chestnut filly, 1, by Sunflower II. Sclioolbook, by Wisdom. Bav colt. 1, bv Sir Geoffrey Helium, by Sundridge. Brown colt, 1. by Sunstar Marian Hood. Brown colt, 1, by Sunstar Bright Cherry. Brown colt. 1, by Sunstar All Green. Chestnut colt, 1, by Uncle Planutess, by Flan-udes. Bay colt, 1, by ITncle Genius, dam of John Pen-dergast. Bay colt. 1. by Uncle Xan-o, dam of Caro Xonie. Bay colt, 1, by 1ncle Princess Orna, dam of Indolence. Bay filly. 1, by Facie Star Dreamer, dam of six winners. Chestnut, filly, 1, by Uncle Lydia II., dam of five winners. Chestnut filly, 1, by Uncle School Mistress, dam of Auriga. Bav colt. 1. by Ossary Orsina. Bay filly, 1 by Prestige Olive Crag. Imported. The latter is the only one of this collection that, was named before being purchased by Mr. Macomber and she is registered under the name of Orleans. Many of the twenty-four elder horses in the Macomber stable will begin racing in Kentucky at the coming Douglas Iark meeting and will, no doubt, garner many races before the fall campaign, in this state winds up at Latonia on October 28. The only jockey that trainer Jennings has under contract at present wtili a license to ride is the western bov. II. II. Phillips. C. Turner is with the stable, but has not had the ban as yet lifted of his suspension at Havana last winter. His efforts in the east to secure reinstatement from the Jockey Tub proved fruitless. Trainer Jennings finds him, however, a valuable connection with his stable as an exercising rider, as he can still do, without reducing, as light weight as IDS pounds. A. K. Macomber, who has now launched so extensively in the racing business, is a son-in-law of the late Standard Oil king and noted trotting horse breeder, L. V. Harkness. whose palatial Kentucky estate at Walnut Hall Farm is one of the sights of central Kentucky. Mr. Macomber is one of the youngest turfmen to ever embark so extensively in racing with thoroughbred horses, as lie is not much over 30 years of age. ,
