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SUPERINTENDENT FOR CHICAGO OWNER G W Berry to Take Charge of F J Kelleys Breeding and Racing Interests SAN FRANCISCO Cal April 10 George AV Herry the wellknown California horseman has left for Chicago to take the important position of general superintendent of the breeding and racing interests of Frank 1 Kelley The Chicago owner contemplates the immediate expansion of his thor ¬ oughbred holdings ami has chosen lierry to have full charge One of the Californias first bi tasks will be the fitting up of the Kelley farm near nearChicago Chicago for the recepti f the stallions and andbrood brood mares belonging to the Chicago man that have been in Kentucky for some time Later on it i likely Mr Kelley will purchase a place in Cali ¬ fornia and the stock divided between the Illinois establishment and the California farm Mr Kelley was recently here looking over a number of favor ¬ able sites He expressed himself as enraptured with the climate of the state and the allyear round activities possible in the horse business businessTin Tin Kellcy colors are familiar on the courses of Kentucky Maryland and other eastern centers of racing and along with the development of the owners breeding enterprise there will be purchases from lime to time of horses to hold up his prestige in racing Mr Kelley has been a liberal subscriber this year to the Kentucky stakes Superintendent ISerry will direct both tlie breeding and racing end of the Kelley interests for which he is well quali ¬ fied on account of his wide experience with large es ¬ tablishments lierry was for many years superin ¬ tendent of A P Sprcckels Xapa Stock Farm and his success is indicated by the proud position held for a long period by the California farm Although Xapa Stock Farm has few marcs compared with the mammoth studs of Kentucky it holds its own season after season in turning out winners only being topped by the nurseries of John E Madden August Helmont and Harry Payne AVhitney in number of bracket earners AVhile Herry was at the Napa ranch such good performers as Dr Leggo Voorhees Torbellino Mad e F and scores of others were sent to the races racesEERRY EERRY AN EXPERIENCED MAN MANIn In the last half dozen years Herry has been super ¬ intendent of George Wingfields Nevada Stock Farm where he was uniformly successful There have been twenty five foals at Nevada Stock Farm so far this yefr probably a record for the countrv Mr Wingfield is highly elated over the way the foals have been coming and ungrudgingly gives much of the credit to his former superintendent j who had charge of the breeding last year yearStallion Stallion barns brood mare stables paddocks and all the other necessary accommodations of a mod ¬ ern stud place will be built at Mr Kelleys Illi ¬ nois farm under the direction of superintendent lierry On the completion of the structures about twenty choicely bred mares daughters of Star Shoot Sweep Pallot and other noted stallions will be shipped to their new home from Kentucky Mr Kelley is the owner of Ormesdale by Ormondale Madchcn by Knight of the Thistle and Paiciues by Sunstar Dreamy by Persimmon and the two stallions will be domiciled at the Kelley farm just as soon as their quarters are ready Ormesdale and Paicines are at present on u farm at Hutchi ¬ son Kentucky KentuckyOrmesdale Ormesdale undoubtedly should have a bright stud career before him His blood lines are especially attractive as he is a son of the successful sire Orinoiidale a California bred horse that won the Futurity for the late William OHrian Macdonough Ormondale is going on to better things all the time is a sire and there is no reason his son should not llo well too Paicines is a halfbrother to the stake winner War Cloud He is one year younger than Oriuesdale being six years old Mr Kelley pur ¬ chased Paicines from A K Macomber in February The Sunstar horse went amiss early and never had an opportunity to show what he could do on the track AValter H Jennings who trained Paicines says he never had a faster horse In his charge and that is saying a good deal as Jennings has trained some of the fleetest horses In the history of the American turf
