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MY PLAY TO THE STUD To Stand at Chicago Sportsmans, C. B. Shafers, Cold Stream Farm in Kentucky. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 1G. Announcement is made today by Tom Young, manager of Cold Stream Farm, that Charles B. Shafer, of Chicago, owner of this splendid establishment embracing more than one thousand acres of the choicest "Blue Grass land, has purchased from E. F. Simms and Henry TV. Oliver a half interest in the five-year-old stallion My Play and that this good brother of Man o War by Fair Play Mahubah, by Rock Sand, will make his initial season in the stud at Cold Stream. My Play is to stand as the property of Messrs. C. B. Shafer and E. F. Simms, but it has not as yet been determined what his fee will be to outside mares. Mr.- Shafer now is the owner of about thirty-five excellent mares. He added nine to the Cold Stream band by purchase at the Xalapa Farm dispersal in New York last week. They are Rose of Roses, Largo, Scenery, Cri de Cour, Watersmeet, Ehnaha, Irish Queen, Rose Leaves and Schnapps. He also bought a couple of weanlings at this sale, they being the bay colt by Negofol Seles ia and the brown filly by Leonardo Poppy Bed. Manager Tom Young bought the mare Ny-seide for his own account and on the way back from New York he stopped off at Pittsburgh and bought for himself, from R. H. Mackenzie, the thirteen-year-old mare, Birdie Williams, by Uncle Dorothy Gray, and she soon is to arrive here.
