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J. K. L. ROSS AMBITIOUS RACING PLANS Expecfa to Figure Prominently on New York Courses with Cudgel and Stahlemates. New York, December 14. The recent purchase of the crack three-year-old Cudgel by J. K. L. Eoss of Montreal, confirms the rumors that Mr. Eoss contemplates racing on an extensive scale over the metropolitan courses next year. Formerly this Canadian owner campaigned a useful stable at all the principal tracks in Canada, but with little prospects of the sport being resumed in the Dominion next year, Mr. Eoss has decided to race at the New York and Maryland tracks. Having come to this decision, it was only natural for Mr. Ross to strengthen his stable. With all the high-class horses available for racing next year, an owner to figure prominently in the sport must be in possession of one or more ot these splendid thoroughbreds, reasoned Mr. Ross. The purchase of Hourless or Omar Khayyam was out of the question, but there was a chance to secure a colt, by many considered the equal of these two wonderful horses. This colt was Cudgel, owned by J. W. Schorr of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Ross lost no time in sending Ills trainer, H. G. Bed-well, to Kentucky with the result that Cudgel was purchased for 0,000 and is now quartered at the Bedwell farm near Laurel, Maryland. The acquisition of this grand young horse, together with Priscilla Mullens, Miss Bryn, Uncle Bryn, Damrosch, Copper King, Welsh King, Mono-moy and others that may be secured later, will make the Ross stable a formidable racing organization for next year. The signing of H. G. Bedwell to train the Eoss horses, after the death of the late Capt. W. F. Presgrave, was a profitable and wise move on the part of the Montreal turfman. Bedwell is an efficient, astute conditioner of horses and under his handling the Ross horses raced with marked success during the Maryland meetings. Bedwell has disposed of nearly all of his own horses and will devote his entire time to the management of the big Ross establishment. It is safe to predict that the Montreal turfman will figure prominently in turf affairs next year.
