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WICKLIFFE STABLES PROMISING YEARLINGS. By Peter Clark. Louisville, Ky., November 17. Price McKinuey, the Cleveland iron master of the firm of Corrigan and 3IcKinney, owners of the Wickliffe Stable, passed the week end at their cottage at Churchill Downs and got the first glimpse of the working of their present crop of yearlings. They are under the careful management of trainer John Wiialen. These yearlings were given their first moves and showed by their action that they will be heard from in the annals of the turf in days to come. The twenty-five royally-bred youngsters arc the first bred by these turfmen, who purchased their sires and dams from the estate of the late James R. Keene and were raised en the Kingston Farm under the supervision of 3liss Elizabeth Dainger-field. The other horses, which have. raced in their colors, were in foal to their dams at the time they were purchnsod. 3Ir. 3IcKinney was greatly impressed by the appearance of the whole band collectively, but frankly admitted lie was pretty sweet on a couple of them, one in particular being the big brown colt by Colin 3Iidge. This strapping big one is a half-brother to Luke 3lcLuke and 3Iida. He is as grand a looking yearling as one would wish to see. Mr. McKinncy said that when they were receiving their morning exercise, this awkward fellow was outfooted by the quick, alert, smaller colts, but when his exercise boy shook him up, he went up to them like a shot and if nothing happens to prevent it he may be one of the great turf stars of the coming racing season. The thirteen fillies in the collection, while appearing small in comparison with tiie colts, are of exceptionally fine size for their sex and greatly resemble their distinguished relations, which have met with remarkable success in the past. James W. Corrigan, the other member of the firm, who is known to his personal friends as "Jimmie," is a staunch admirer of Delhi, which in his racing career was an extremely fast horse and since his retirement to the stud, has not had as great an opportunity as the other mighty sires at the Kingston Farm. In this collection of yearlings are five of his get and 3Ir. Corrigan is willing to .wager among his friends that they will show as good results at the end of the next racing season as those of the great Colin, Ultimns and Disguise, each of which is well represented in the stable. Trainer John Wiialen, who has had an extensive experience with youngsters from the famous Nursery Stud, expressed himself as being more than pleased witli the yearlings under his care and expects, barring the usual setbacks that occur in the early training of yearlings, to have as formidable a string of two-year-olds to compete in the big stakes of the metropolitan tracks of the east next year as ever left Kentucky in any one stable.
