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G. A. COCHRANE BREEDING VENTURE. Has Ton Wcll-Brod Yearlings at His Beautiful Runnymedo Stock .Farm. vf - New York, August 2. It is not expected that Gif-ford A. Cochran will figure prominently as a buyer at the coming yearling sales at Saratoga for the reason that Mr. Cochran expects to have a fino crop of youngsters of his own breeding to represent him in the juvenile racing of next year. Mr. Cochran has a splendidly equipped stock farm called Runnynicde, near Mount Kisco, comprising nearly 300 acres aboout forty miles north of the city and ten miles east of the Hudson. It lies snugly among the rocky hills just south of the Bedfords and the location is beautiful, as well as admirably adapted to the needs of a Ktock. farm in this latitude. It is walled about on every side by high hills and low mountains so as to be completely sheltered from the cold winds of late autumn, winter and early spring, while in its deep, abrupt valleys are beautiful stretches of rich succulent grass which grows abundantly from early spring until the snows of winter have swathed in snow the rocky wooded crests of the surrounding mountains. Until this year superintendent James Evans lias been conducting this farm from the general headquarters stable, which stands near Mr. Cochrans summer home, about a mile and a half from the village of Mount Ksco, and on the south front of Runnymede, but within the past year a handsome residence for Mr. Evans has been built on the next concession line northward, and along with it one of the finest and most adequately equipped training stables and necessary outbuildings have been erected. Young- Sire His Majesty Well Represented. There are at present about ten yearlings under the care of-superintendent Evans, including Toom-beola, b. c, by His Majesty Connemara, a brown colt, by His Majesty Pretty Maiden; bay colt by Swynford Quair; chestnut colt by His Majesty Early Rose; bay colt by Ormondale Veil; brown colt by Ogden Golden Drop; brown colt by His Majesty The Marchioness; brown colt by Tracery Glass Jug; chestnut filly by Celt Adriana; brown filly by Ben Brush Henpeck. Mr. Cochran now has fifteen broodmares on his farm, although some of them now are spending their first year in retirement. These are as follows: Royal Martyr, ch. m, 5, by Golden Maxim Mary Stuart. Miirie Odile, ch. f, 3, by Star Shoot Colline. Cut Glass, b. f, 3, by William the Third Glass Jug. Pleione, br. f, 3, by Sain Spindrift. Pretty Maiden, Adriana, The Marchioness and Quair and Livonia The Finns dam were barren this year. The producing mares this year are as follows: Connemara dropped a beautiful bay filly to His Majesty March 22. Golden Drop foaled a particularly fine bay colt to His Majesty April 16. Veil produced a large and handsome bay colt to His Majesty April 10. Henpeck is now due to foal to His Majesty. Early Rose foaled a chestnut colt to His Majesty February 26. This colt, being the oldest of the baud, is a splendid individual and appears to have matured wonderfully already. It is believed that Glass Jug is barren this year, although earlier in the year she was believed to be in foal.
