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JAMES BUTLERS HOME-BRED YEARLINGS. James ISntler, who for several years past lias been a liberal buyer at the annual yearling sale at Saratoga and elsewhere, will hardly be an extensive purchaser this year, as he will have about twenty colts and fillies of his own breeding to carry his colors nest year in the juvenile division. The two-year-olds that will bear the cherry and while of the owner of the Empire -City track were raised at his Eastview farm, which is in AAest-ehester county, not far from Tarrytown. They are a thriving band, the offspring for the most part of the Persimmon stallion Out of Reacli and marcs of the Keene breeding. Five years ago, it will be remembered, Mr. Hutler paid a matter of 5,000 for the entire yearling output or the Keene stud. Some of tlie mares raced only a time or two, some did not race at all. These will be represented among the coming two-year-olds. Mr. Butler bought Out of Reach just before George Smith, a horse that cost John Sanford of Amsterdam, New York States most extensive breeder, 5,000 two years back and made good handsomely in the Kentucky Derby the following year, began to show form. Out of Reach had been at service in Kentucky. He is dead now, but he left behind two crops of young horses and there will be another crop next spring. Other stallions that will be represented in the Butler two-year-olds of 1Q18 are Last Coin and Pebbles, the former a son of Ultimus, the latter a son of Ben Brush.
