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JEFFERSON LIVINGSTONS GOOD STAPLE STAPLELillian Lillian Shaw a Star Filly and Winner of the Fastest Kentucky Oaks Ever Run The success of the fine filly Lillian Shaw in the Kentucky Oaks calls attention to the fact tliat Jefferson Livingstons stable is doing better fop him than it did last year Then it won 32807 comparing poorly with its 55813 of 1917 This year his horses have already won 24827 so unless extraordinary ill fortune intervenes it seems prob ¬ able his stable is in for another good year as good iwrhaps as 1917 It is fair to presume that credit for much of this improvement Is due to the skill ot trainer Jack McCormack McCormackLillian Lillian Shaw only captured one race in twenty attempts as a twoyearold But in running second in seven races and third in four others she gave proof that she was not without racing merit and probably unlucky not to have won oftener It has been different this year she having already won four races out of five run Her first start was in a purse race of threequarters of a mile at Lex ¬ ington April 21 She was so little thought of that when she won her S2 tickets in the mutiiels paid 12 rO She carried 107 iKiunds and defeated Ite galo 115 iKHinds Legotal 110 and seven more fil ¬ lies in l13 f Her next race was in the Ashland Oaks In which over a heavy track she ran third to Rcgalo and Delico May 3 she won at a mile in 139 from I win The Colleen Bawn Delico and Lady Fair Play Then she was taken to Louisville and there on May 9 won another purse race at a mile this time in 138 with Bellsolar second Flyaway third and five other speedy fillies un ¬ placed This was a fine performance and one that gained her many adherents when it came to tlie running of the Kentucky Oaks How she won that coveted race last Saturday is of such recent oc ¬ currence as to be fresh in the minds of all Inter ¬ ested However it is wortli while to point out that it was the fastest Kentucky Oaks ever run at its present distance also that the fine filly Milkmaid was fairly and squarely beaten on her merits To date Lillian Shaws record is isYear Year Age Sts 1st 2d 3d Unp Won 1918 2 20 1 7 4 8 1967 1919 3 5 4 0 1 0 6640 Total 8607 8607The The pedigree of Lillian Shaw is given here On Onher her linns side there is a strong suggestion of David DavidD D Withers King Ernest King Eric Macaroon and andCastagnette Castagnette all having belonged to that irascible irascibleturf turf lawmaker of long ago agoTTist TTist f Spend 3 Australian Australianf f ImYs thrift 1 Aerolite b Icindcr f BRnorThawk ella Manna 1 f Bend Or v i Sl OrSl cold 001U IPamo I = Masham fKliK Pauline PaulineKing King Tom TomErnestine t S Krucst Ernestine ErnestineParmesan Parmesan ParmesanTyphoon Typhoon TyphoonMacaroon Macaroon MacaroonCastagnette Castagnette CastagnetteEnquirer Patricia EnquirerPatricia Enquirer
