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TO BREED THOROUGHBREDS. JEFFERSON LIVINGSTON PLANS TO ESTABLISH STUD FARM IN KENTUCKY NEXT YEAR. Has Eighteen Mares as a. Nucleus for His New Venture Royal II, and Colonel Vennie Considered Ideal1 Stalifon Types. "ei- A By 3;ni Jeffery. - Saratoga, N. Y., August 8. JefTerson Livingston, of Chicago, who is one of the boxholders for the season at the Saratoga Associations track and who is keenly enjoying the sport here, is planning to establish a breeding farm in Kentucky" next year for the production of the racing stock on which he will depend to enrry his colors a few years hence. Mr. Livingston owns some eighteen mares already. At least a portion of them will be mated next spring with the English stallions Colonel Vennie and Royal II., which have been carrying the Livingston colors witli such signal success during the past year or two. Royal II.. it will be remembered, won the Latonia Derby for Mr. Livingston, and Colonel Vennie lias been showing high-class form this year. The former struck one of his legs in his last start at Latonia and will not be raced until fall, but Colonel Vennie is rounding into racing condition after a respite from training that trainer Mose Goldblatt regarded as necessary to restore the horse to his normal condition after the hard campaigning to which he was subjected during the winter and spring. Colonel Vennie is so far advanced-inVhli training that it is likely he will be able to take part in some of the more important races to be run here towards the end of the month, but he will not be hurried and if he is not really in prime condition to race here, he will be reserved for the fall campaign in Kentucky.. The Livingston stable will be shipped to Lexington at the close of the Saratoga meeting. Trainer Goldblatt has high hopes that the two-year-old Americnn, purchased privately from J. B. Rcspess last, spring, will prove to be good enough to win the Breeders Futurity at Lexington, for which important race he is especially pointing the colt- -American has. -won his- last two races in -the east .and will be raced sparingly until he fills his , Breeders Futurity engagement. He was beaten by the narrowest of. margins for the Cincinnati Trophy nt Latonia last month after having had bad racing luck in the early part of the race, ami it is evident, that he is a colt considerably above the ordinary. Stable Not Conspicuous at Saratoga. The Livingston stable, which had been leading all other American racing establishments in winnings this year, has not been figuring conspicuously here, one reason being that most of the horses embraced in it are barred frofn many of tho races on account of having won so frequently during the year. There are a number of promising English two-year-olds in the stable that have not yet faced the starting barrier, which trainer Goldblatt will introduce to the public while here and, unless lie is sadly mistaken in his estimate of them, they will acquit themselves with credit after receiving a bit of racing education. These juveniles have been gone along with cautiously because of their promise and are now receiving the finishing touches in preparation for their racing debut. The dispersal sale of the Grant Hugh Browne stable leaves trainer Charles J. Casey without any horses. The remnant of the division of the Browne stable, which he had in charge, has been turned over to D. R. McDaniel, who had been handling the first string of the stable. George Wheelock, who formerly figured as one of the leading bookmakers on the metropolitan tracks, and who accumulated a big fortune in real estate operations following his retirement from the ring when the anti-bookmnking legislation was enacted in this state a decade ago, is still a devotee of racing. He has been in almost constant attendance throughout the season at the various tracks, but he no longer operates from the layers end. Former starter .1. J. Holtman is among those enjoying the racing here, having arrived from Chicago, where he supervised the carrying out of some improvements at the Hawthorne track, in anticipation of the opening of the proposed meeting that failed to materialize. Al Neal, who brought the useful sprinter Ed Cudi-hee east and sold hi m while on the Canadian circuit, is among the horsemen gathered here. Juarez Racing to Start About January 1. Although no definite announcement has been made to that effect, nor is one likely in the immediate future, it is understood on good authority that there will be winter racing at Juarez, beginning about January 1. It is learned that Manager Winn will not commit himself to any plan until it seems quite certain that local conditions at Juarez are entirely propitious. It is said that A. K. Macombers good two-year-old Tracksend is afflicted with a ringbone. As good a judge as A. J. Joyner was greatly impressed with the Assagai Touch Not yearling sold at auction Saturday to J. W. May for 4.000. The colt appealed to Mr. Joyner both on account of his promising individuality and his breeding. Walter B. Jennings, trainer of the formidable Macomber stable, keeps in close touch with racing affairs in California and is strongly of the opinion that there will be a good chance for the passage of favorable racing legislation under proper restrictions in that state after the war is over, if the many influential Cnlifornians, who are interested in the thoroughbred, can be induced to lend their active aid to the movement. The attempt in that direction which was made last spring, died aborning because of the laek of proper organization and was abandoned because it was realized by the leaders in the Golden Gate Thoroughbred Association that the time was not ripe for pressing the proposed legislation. Dr. F. W. Ashe, who serves as an official in connection with various Canadian tracks, Is among the visitors here.
