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VETERAN BREEDER AND OWNER DIES Colonel E F Clay Member of A Distinguished Family and Widely Known in Turf Affairs AffairsLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky July 28 Word lias been received that Colonel Ezekiel F Clay died btst Sunday at his Runnymede Stock Farm near Paris Ky He was of the advanced age of 79 years and had long been in bad health healthColonel Colonel Clay was born on the old Clay home ¬ stead near Paris on Decomber 1 1841 Hn was attending a private school at Harrodsburg Pa at the outbreak of the Civil AVar and cast his lot with the Confederate army enlisting as 5 private with the First Kentucky which afterward reor ¬ ganized Into the Third Kentucky Mounted Rifles of xyhich he became qolouel iiid served for the dura ¬ tion of the war warAfter After the war hn formed a partnership with Cntesby AAroodford and they established the Ruiiny iiKdoStud From this stud caine Miss AVoodford Hanover Hindoo Sir Dixon Jaconet sister to the great Iroquois and numerous other kings and queens of the turf turfColonel Colonel Clay was formerly president of tlie Ken ¬ tucky Racing Association and was one of the most esteemed members of tlie Kentuckj State Racing Conimlssion He had always been in the thorough ¬ bred business for tlie love of horses and active in bringing about many turf reforms
