Yearlings Going East By Freight: Unability to Secure Express Cars Forces Breeders to Try Slower Means of Transportation., Daily Racing Form, 1920-07-21

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YEARLINGS GOING EAST BY FREIGHT TTnability to Secure Express Cars Forces Broedei to Try Slower Means of Transportation LEXINGTON Ky July 20 Thomas B Crom ¬ well acting for the Kentucky breeders of thorough ¬ bred yearlings to be sold at auction at Saratoga the first two Aveeks in August today arranged for a special train of thirtytwo cars and Pullman sleeper to leave Lexington next Monday night and run the 813 miles on a schedule of twenty miles an hour Inability to secure express cars necessitated the taking of frieght cars and now that the ar ¬ rangements have been made the breeders say they are glad of he opportunity to give freight trans ¬ portation for blooded horses such a test testEmil Emil llerz Avho came from New York last night saw the Short Grasn yearlings loaded iuK an ex ¬ press car and departed on the same train with them for Saratoga this afternoon afternoonTom Tom Welch and Charles II Hughes arrived here last night from New York the former to see the Joseph E Wideuer horses at Elmendorf and tin latter to arrange for shipment of the E F Simms yearlings to Saratoga where he is to break them themDan Dan W Scott has consolidated his horses into one stabhr at the local track and hits engaged French Brooks as trainer Joe S Hawkins has heard an appeal from W F Poison ft Windsor for stablemen but he has not been able to secure anybody here who Is Avilling to goto Canada to work John E Madden left here this morning for Sara ¬ toga


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