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T F RYAN TO ENLARGE HIS STABLE Virginia Sportsman to Give Produce of Sea King Every Opportunity to Show Merit NEW YOKK NY June 4 Thomas Fortune Kyan of New York and Virginia a proprietor of the Oak ridge Stud which is domiciled on a form of 10 OW acres in the Piedmont of Virginia in Nelson County midway between Charlottcsville and Lynch burg Is going in for racing on a considerable scale next year His stable will be a Virginia outfit through and through for he has hired Ix wls Garth of Charlottesville as trainer and the liorses he will campaign will be the products for the must part of Oakridge and sons and daughters of his own successful Persimmon stallion Sea King whose brilliant son Paul Jones surprised some 10000 per ¬ sons at Churchill Downs on May 8 by defeating Upset Ithizes On Watch Donnacona Prince Pal and some other threeyearolds of more or less renown in the Kentucky Derby This announce ¬ ment was made yesterday at Itelmont 1ark by young Mr Garth GarthJxjwis Jxjwis Garth is a son of William Garth and he learned the art of training under his father whom In helped to prepare Paul Jones for his successful race in the Kentucky Derby Young Garth trained a stable of flat runners anil steeplechasers last year for W T Wilkinson of St Louis and had some success This year he is training the American establishment of A K Macomber who shipped most of his horses to France last fall but left Star Master Itoyce Kools and several others on tiis side Garth will continue to train Star Mas ¬ ter which for a couple of months will be on the shelf with a bad leg through what remains of the current season but he will turn this horse and Koyce Kools and such other horses of the Macomber stable as lie may still have in charge over to some one else in the fall Resides these horses of Mr Ma combers the younger Garth is training a half dozen of his own twoyearolds He has a bud ¬ ding stud in Albemarle County Virginia with the stallion Ilerrilldon at its head and there are several sons of Rcrrilldon racing under his silks at Rclmont Park One of these the bay colt Inglecrest a youngster of promise lie sold for a good price last Thursday to K It Thomas PROMISING YEARilNG ON FARM Just what twoyearolds there wilLhe next spring for racing under the white and green of the Oak ridge Stable presumably Mr Kyan will stick to the stable name that suggests his Virginia stud Garth does not know yet Hut there are some speedy year ¬ lings on the Nelson County farm and they will be taken up and broken in the fall at the Renning track Mr Kyan has a good threeyearold racing this year in Sen Mint a son of Sea King and Mintless which won a couple of races last year and has shown fine speed in work this spring springSea Sea Mint and a couple of other horses belonging to Mr Kyan are just now in the stable of Andrew Jackson Joyner Joyner is training them along with the horses of tlie stable of George D Widener of Philadelphia PhiladelphiaTlie Tlie success of Paul Jones is said to have inspired the decision of Mr Kyan to branch out as the cam ¬ paigner of a considerable stable although he has liitd several horses running for him every year for ten or twelve years So delighted was he when he received the news of Paul Jons triumph he wired William Garth at Churchill Downs that there was to be no charge for tlie services of Sea King to more than a dozen marcs the elder Garth and his son Lewis had sent to Oakridge earlier in the year to be mated with Sea King KingMr Mr Kyan holds Sea King in high regard Tlie victory of Paul Jones in the Kentucky Derby dem ¬ onstrated that the son of Persimmon and Sea Air she a daughter of Isonomy which Kichard Croker purchased in Great 1ritain some ten years back oh Mr Kyans account is one of the best representa ¬ tives of the line of St Simon at service on this side of tho Atlantic Sea King gets horses of substance that can run fast and stay far Itefore lie sent Paul Jones to the races he sired the one ¬ time successful Canadian Cup horse King Neptune also Sea Pirate a capital twoyearold of a couple of years back Sea Gull Siren Maid Queen of the Sea Sea Queen and other winners Sisce the victory of Paul Jones in the Kentucky Derby Thomas W OHrien has sent his Pluvious mares Plummet and Plureen to Oakridge to be mated with Sea King
