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LATEST NEWS FROM BREEDING FARMS McGce Josie L. Yearling Destroyed After Auto-mobilo Accident Samuel Ross Buys Baby Rose. LEXINGTON, Ky., November 8. While she was being led along the Newtown pike this morning, going from the farm of her owner, Charles W. Moore, to the Kentucky Association track, the yearling bay filly sister to Horron and Tragedy by McGee Josie L., by Top Gallant, was struck by an automobile and so badly injured that she laid to ho destroyed. As a precaution against just such an accident as this, T. L. Pierce procured E. it. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm horse van in which to transport the four weanlings recently purchased by Jefferson Livingston from the farms of Howard lots, John S. Wiggins and John S. Barbee to Walter S. Paynes Mapleton Farm, where they now are in safety. Sid Berry has gone - to New Orleans from the Kentucky Association track with five yearlings and a two-year-old by Froglegs. Jockey Lawrence Lykc is at Idle Hour Farm preparing to go on a ten days hunting trip with Barry Shannon to the mountains in eastern Kentucky. Major T. C. McDowell this week tried out the two yearlings he is training and found that both are good runners. One is the Uncle Kings Daughter filly, which he bought back from Howard Oots after his Saratoga sale for, .,,500, and the other is by Djck Finnell Affable, for which Ids brother-in-law, Desha Breckenridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, paid 1,300. The Affable filly did her quarter in 23 and the other in 24. T. L. Pierce has tried and turned out at Kinney Nichols farm Andy Coreys Marathon Crystal Blank colt. "He showed me that he is a real good horse," said Pierce today. "I ran him three times in the mud a quarter in 24 with from 127 to 130 pounds up, and he showed me. a quarter in 23 on a dry track, and he can shade that." J. O. Kecne now says he has decided to train the yearling and weanling crops of the Kocncland Stud and has withdrawn them from the market. Baby Rose, the seven-year-old brown mare by Galveston, dam Nun, by Candlemas, has been sold by J. L. Tarlton to Samuel Ross and is to go to Virginia with Trap Rock.
