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PASTIME STABLES GOOD PROSPECTS Additional Racers Will Bo Purchased to Auguir.ent Present Establishment Quartered at the Downs. Louisville, Ky., December 29. The Pastime Stable owned by John Middleton and Lawrence Jones, wealthy business men of this city, enjoyed a most prosperous season in 1917, confining its racing almost exclusively to the Kentucky tracks and unless the plans of the owners go amiss, the establishment should enjoy an even greater measure of success during the coming year. I Like many other wealthy sportsmen, Messrs. ; Middleton and Jones are in the sport for the pleasure to be derived through its indulgence and not from any hope of gain. All profits over and above tlie actual qost of maintaining their establishment are devoted to the purchase of fresh stock in order to keep the stable in the position it has occupied for many years as being one of the representative racing establishments of Kentucky. The usual custom yrill be followed this winter by the acquisition pf a number of valuable horses. The dispersal sale of the extensive stable of J.- W. Corrigan will afford Messrs. Jones and Middleton an excellent opportunity of accomplishing their purpose. There are ti number of most desirable coming tliree-yeaK-olds "now at Kingston Farm, thnt may, after January 15, the day of the sale, le included in the memlwrship of the Pastime Stable. GUY FORTUNE STAR OF STABLE. At present the establishment in winter quarters at Churchill Downs, in charge of that most competent trainer French Brooks, consists of less than a dozen horses, being about equally divided between yearlings and matured horses. Among the latter are Lady Always, a four-year-old filly by Peter Quince Tunisia and the hree-year-olds Guy Fortune, whicli started in this years Kentucky Derby, Gallant Lad arid Sunflash. . The early part of the year Lady Always was regarded as the star of the stable and its main dependance. This filly, however, failed to justify the high regard in which she was held, although she scored in a numlter of races. Her younger stablemate, Guy Fortune, soon displaced her for the stables premier honors and turned out to lie- its chief breadwinner. He soon proved his right to be classed with the top-notchers, by winning in the best of company and at varying distances of three-quarters to one mile and a quarter. During the racing in Kentucky, this handsome son of Transvaal Cerina started in eighteen races. He won four, was second five times anil third on three occasions. He was unplaced six times. He was one of the few horses- -that gave the crack Cudgel an argument over a long distance of ground. There is every reason for the prediction that this colt will next year prove equally or even more successful than during the present one. FINE SWEEP FILLY IN STABLE. The two-year-olds in the stable include Tally, a black filly by Sweep Tapiola; Enos, a colt by Setli, and the Garry Herrmann colt Cunning Fox. Tally was purchased from Talbot Bros, and won the only contest in whicli she was engaged. This was at the Churchill Downs fall meeting. In that rage the filly was badly kicked, the injury causing her retirement for the year. Enos is a maiden, while Cunning Fox has never faced the starter, owing to having gone wrong in his early spring training. The best yearlings in the stable are n colt by Ben Trovato and another one by Burgomaster Incarnata. The stable still holds the contract on joekey Danny Connolly, who is riding at New Orleans. Recently the contract on the light-weight rider Fred Smith was secured from the stable of Capt.. E. B. Cassatt. Smith is 19 years old and can scale ninety-one pounds. He is at present riding under the tutorship of Al Woodman at Havana and will report to the Pastime Stable April 1. French Brooks, in charge- of the stable, formerly trained for the late Woodford Clay, when that owner hart Roamer. Ocean Round and other good racers. It was Brooks who broke and trained Roamer.
