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LOSE VALUABLE PETER PAN WEANLING Only Colt of Year by H. P. Whitneys Noted Stallion Dies of Colic Latest Kentucky Gossip. LEXINGTON, Ky., November 8. Harry Payne Whitney and Al Smltha had a piece of bad luck here Sunday afternoon when the weanling black colt by Peter Pan Dorval, by Darebln, died of colic. Dorval is owned- by Smitha and Peter Pan by Whitney. The mare and stallion were mated on shares, the colt resulting being owned In partnership. Since it was the only colt of this year by Peter Pan and a likely individual, there had been some negotiations on the part of Whitney for Smithas interest. Following Trysters splendid victory at Louisville Saturday afternoon Smithas father suggested to his son that lie should have his interest Insured and about 10 oclock Sunday morning Smitha tried to get an insurance agent on the phone. Shortly afterward Charles H. Berryman, representing Whitney, phoned Smitha that he would be at his farm Monday morning to see the colt and say whether or not Whitney would take him at ,000. Smitha then decided that he would not insure the colt peud- ing Berrymans visit. About 2 oclock Sunday afternoon Smitha was called from the dinner table by one of his men with the statement that the colt Was sick with colic. Doctors Hagyard and Coover botli were called, but were unable to save the colt. The only weanlings by Peter Pan now are three fillies, one at Smithas, one at A. E. Hundleys farm near Danville and one at the Whitney farm here. Henry McDaniel is expected here Tuesday from New York. Phil T. Chinn is here to see the horses at Him-yar Stud. Montfort Jones was a week-end guest of John E. Madden at Hamburg Place. John J. Troxler and Dr. Fred Ridenour of Plain-field, 111., motored over from Louisville Sunday to see the horses at John S. Wiggins Military Stock Farm. George Baker of Dayton,-Ohio, was here Sunday to see the yearlings he has In W. Perkins barn and to see Uncle Velo, West Side, Al Thomas and , Mnry Jane Baker, which are turned out at John D. Carrs farm. W. Perkins Sunday sent Judge Budrow and Non-, skid to Thomas Piatts farm. They have been castrated; so have Uncle Velo, Al Thomas, Inspector Hughes, Tom Norris, West Side and East Side. 4 Col. R. L. Baker Saturday had the misfortune to lose the weanling colt by King Gorin Armllda. Colonel Baker has decided to send Pif Jr., Dr. Carmen, Fair Orient, Meliora, McAdoo, J. C. Stone, Oriental Dress and the yearling black filly Nig, by Black Toney Costume, by Domino, to New Orleans to be raced there by Will Perkins.
