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PURCHASES ENGLISH MARES Master of Idle Hour Farm Secures Several Well-Bred Matrons at Newmarket. LEXINGTON, Ky., December 6. Colonel E. R. Bradley sent 0,000 over to England to the British Bloodstock Agency with instructions to buy for his Idle Hour Stock Farm one, two or three thoroughbred mares this week at the Newmarket sales, specifying that he desired them to be in foal and to be of good individuality and so bred as to be suitable mates for his stallions, with which the agencys representatives are well acquainted. Today Colonel Bradley received a cablegram saying that Moreland Melody, 700 guineas ; Morning Call, 50G guineas, and Wick, 100 guineas, had been purchased for his account. Moreland Melody is five years old, by Thrush Mary Tavy dam of Radiant River and sister to Silent Queen, by Forfarshire Sillabub, the dam of Braxted. Moreland Melody is bred to Torloisk. Morning Call is five years old, by Maiden Erlegh Reception, by Melton Social, by St. Simon. Morning Call is bred to Sunstar. Wick is five years old, by Stornoway AVood Daisy dam of George Wingfields splendid stallion Atheling II., by Cyllene Mountain Daisy, by Ayrshire. Wick is bred to Son-in-Law. Moreland Melody is a bay, the others brown. Trainer "Dick" Thompson, who was taken ill at Baltimore just before the opening of the Pimlico meeting, returned this morning to the Idle Hour Stock Farm, very much improved. He has the assurance of his physicians that his trouble was due solely to an after effect of influenza, and that his recovery will be complete. George H. Strate, who resigned as manager of John H. Rosseters Wikiup Rancho in California, but who continues to look after some horse affairs for the half owner of Friar Rock, is here. He says he has not decided definitely where he will locate. A message from Phil T. Chinn, who is attending the sales this week in England, says that he and Mrs. Chinn will sail Saturday, expecting to arrive in New York December 14, in time for the sale of A. K. Macombers mares from France at Durlands the following day.
