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BILLY GARTH AT LEXINGTON Looks Over Yearlings at A. B. Hancocks Farm — Holds Martingale in High Regard. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 15.— Billy Garth, the noted Virginia trainer, came to Lexington this morning from Louisville and motored over to Paris to visit the Claiborne Stud of his friend and neighbor, Arthur B. Hancock, who also owns the Ellerslie Stud at Garths home town of Charlottesville. The purpose of Garths visit to the blue grass state at this time is to look at yearlings in the interest of J. S. Cosden, for whom he hopes to win the Kentucky Derby next Saturday with either Martingale or Golden Rule, both of which are to start. "Martingale was rank when we sent him to the post for the Preakness Stakes last Saturday," said Garth, "but I am expecting him to be much more settled at Churchill Downs Saturday. I will request the starter to let him stay back of the line of horses at the barrier and I think he then will be on his good behavior and not lunging and breaking through and running away as he did last Saturday. He is a courageous horse, as well as a fast horse, and he can, I think, stand this handicap of three lengths or so at the start and win. Golden Rule also is a good horse and. with good luck in the running, he will be right there at the finish." Garth said that he is expecting from sixteen to twenty starters for the Derby. Val B. Campbell, cashier of the First National Bank at McLeansboro, 111., who is breeding thoroughbreds on a small scale, having the stallion Erskine Dale, son of Sweep, and eight mares at his farm of 360 acres, is a visitor in the blue grass until Derby day. He came to have a look at the various breeding farms in this section, and to inspect the stallions, mares and foals and to get a line on how they do things in Kentucky. Campbells father was the owner of a number of quarter horses, for which lower Illinois was famous in the early days and there still is in that section of the state much of the blood with which the short races of that time wore won. Campbell says that the present legislature may not pass the bill that will bring racing back in the state of ; Illinois, but he feels certain that the sport eventually will be restored on a high plane. Robert Collins of Louisville, who recently purchased Precious Pearl, has shipped her to Miss Elizabeth Daingerfields Haylands Farm. She is to be bred to High Time. Edward Cebrian has gone to New York to meet his father and sister, who are arriving tomorrow after an absence of a year in Europe. Cebrian hopes to be back in Kentucky in time to see the running of the Kentucky Derby, though he may decide to travel to his home in San Francisco and come back East in time for the sal? of his yearlings at Saratoga on August 15. Cebrian has at Keeneland Farm this year fifteen grand looking yearlings, ten of them by Troutbeck. William Dondas. back from Oklahoma, was here this morning en route to Louisville. He is making preparations to go to Omaha to conduct the pari-mutuels at the Ak-Sar-Ben meeting in June. «
