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W. VIAU TO ESTABLISH BREEDING FARM Aims to Purchase Some Established Sire Hopes to Win Epsom Derby Some Day. New Tork, December 0. AVilfrid Aiau, the Cana. diau snortsman, who is making his headquarters in New York, except for such periods when he must report at Montreal, his native city, where he has been drafted in the second class for the Canadian army, is not allowing the war, nor his liability to actual service to curtail his activities so far as racing and the breeding of thoroughbreds is concerned. Always ambitious and the gamest bidder at the sale of Omar Khayyam, the years sensational racehorse, when he went over the offers of A.. K. Macomber and other wealthy horsemen to secure the son of Marco Lisma for ?26,500, Mr. Aiau is now looking still further ahead iu the horse world. He now has set his intentions upon the breeding side and to this end will spare no pains and expense in getting a great sire to head the stud he hopes to establish. It was but natural to suppose that when Mr. Aiau turned his attention towards the breeding end of the sport, that he should look for some great sire. Tuesday afternoon, while talking with a party of friends at the Waldorf. Mr. Aiau mentioned casually that he was negotiating for the purchase of a stallion. PREPARING TO BUY GOOD BROODMARES. Mr. Aiau was not inclined to talk much of his ambition in the breeding line, except to say that he was preparing to purchase some good broodmares and also to establish a breeding establishment of his own in the United States. His only real enthusiasm was displayed when he talked of Omar Khayyam, the horse lie firmly believes to be the lest in this country, or any other. Even AVesty Hogan, his other great three-year-old, who beat. Omar at Pimlico at the recent Pimlico meeting, holds no part of the affection of Mr. Aiau that he feels for the son of Marco. "I havent any two-year-olds that promise greatness, nor any yearlings that I expect great things of," was the modest remark of Mr. Aiau yesterday, "but I hope to purchase something of both agea for next years racing. It may be too much to expect to be able to acquire another Omar Khayyam, but 1 am hoping to have some In all divisions that will give good accounts of themselves iu 1918. "As to establishing a breeding farm in the United States. I have no real plans as yet, but it is my ambition to breed a thoroughbred which may be able to win the Epsom Derby after the war is over and I expect only to buy the best of mares to be mated most advantageously with this end in view."
