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STAR HAWK YEARLINGS ARE SPEEDY ; i, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.j November 9. Trials of highly bred yearlings belonging to A. K. Macomber at the San Jose race track have awakened new interest in -the thoroughbred, in the picturesque Santa Clara Valley, one of- the richest agricultural sections of .California. The youngsters are being sent fast eighths and every little while townsfolk and visiting horsemen come away with enthusiastic accounts of the exhibitions. Ten "babies" are in training. The race course and adjoining property were purchased last year by Mr. Macomber. The place is run in conjunction witii the Elmwood Stock Farm, a few miles away, where the stallions and brood mares of the Macomber American establishment are quartered. A trim looking bay, by the Sunstar horse Star Hawk Myrtle Gale, worked an eighth in 11 seconds and a fraction the other morning in the presence of Walter B. Jennings, George W. Berry, W. W. Mendcnhall and other well-known horsemen. This fellow is called aptly The Falconer. He is one of three Star HaAvks among the yearlings, the other two being a handsome brown colt, dam the Prestige mare Orleans, and a neatly turned brown filly, dam the Cunard mare Cugrail. Mr. Jennings takes special pride in watching these youngsters gallop, as he says he trained few better horses in his long career than Star Hawk, their "daddy." Myrtle Gale and Cugrail,. dams of two of the Star Hawk yearlings, were not shipped to France last year along with other Macomber mares, as their pedigrees are lost in the so-called mists of early American breeding and their produce are not eligible to the English Stud Book. Orleans was shipped with Sunbonnet and the others to "La Belle France," her breeding being acceptable abroad. She is by Prestige Olive Crag, by Wolfs Crag Miss Olive, by Grammont. Europes loss is Americas gain in the cases of Myrtle Gale, which is by Uncle, dam the Star Ruby mare Star Dreamer, and of the Cunard mare Cugrail. Breeders "over liere" are ever on the lookout for just such mares, as they come of good old American stock, with the right admixture of blood from England and Australia. In addition to the three Star Hawk yearlings at San Jose there are youngsters by Uncle, Dodge and Trap Rock.
