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CATESBY WOODFORD DEAD Noted Kentucky Breeder and Partner of Late E. F. Clay Succumbs to Heart Disease. LEXINGTON, Ky.. April 10.— Catesby Woodford. 74. owner of the splendid farm in Bourbon County where until a few years ago he maintained the famous Uaceland Stud of thoroughbred horses, dud suddenly during Sunday night at Fort Myers, Fia., the result of an ailment of the heart. The body will be brought to Kentucky for interment at Paris. Mrs. Woodford, who formerly was Miss Amelia Davenport of Virginia, was at his Florida since last fall. There are no children, but the deceased turfman is survived by two brothers, Ben of Paris and Henry of Florida, and one sister, Mrs. W. B. Yerk»-s of Florida. As the partner of the late Colonel 10. F. Clay, who was the master of Kunnymede Stud, Mr. Woodford had more than an ordinary measure of success in horse breeding and racing and the names of the two establishments wore synonyms for the be-t in borne Senfa of the period before the blight that was p it upon racing and breeding by iinfavJiabl legislation in New York and elsewhere. When thit happened Mr. Woodford and Colonel lay sold the stallion Star Shoot and a large number of mares to John K. Madden and shippeJ many others to Europe, until there remaned no thoroughbreds on the two great farm;. Mr Woodford was for several years preshlent of the Kentucky Association.
