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YANKEE DONATED TO GOVERNMENT Is the Gift of Major Thomas Hitchcock Sensational Yearling at Lexington Track LEXINGTON Ky December 11 Yankee a son of Hanover and Correction winner of the Futurity of 1901 is to be one of the governments bureau stal ¬ lions He was presented to tho government by Major Thomas Hitchcock of AVcstbury L I and was accepted for the government by F Ambrose Clark and today was turned over by John K Madden at whoso Hamburg Place lie has been since bis return from France to James P Ross who will shortly ship him with other horses to sonnV station yet to be designated by the War Department DepartmentTlie Tlie yearling bay filly Abbess by Buckhorn Admit by Ingcldsby tracing to the Ballet family from which comes Exterminator is the sensation of th s hour at this Kentucky Association course Carrying 120 ixmmls she worked a quarter in twenty thrf seconds the last eighth in 11 She is the property of Treacy AAalker and is being tniined by Uohert C Fniakes Her individuality action and breeding which is much like that of Regret the only filly to win the Kentucky Derby caused Billy Treacy to enter her for the Hopeful Spin away United States Hotel Alabama Stakes and Litonii Championship Stakes even before she was tried