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SCOTLANDS SPEED DISPLAY i Shows Fastest Move of Spring Season at Lexington — Revenue Agent Dead. LEXINGTON, Ky.. April 19— The fastest move of the season at the Kentucky Associa- • tion track was made this morning when Col. J. Swigert Taylors brown colt Scotland, by Eight Brigade — Elizabeth ML, by Jack Atkin, trained by J. Tommy Taylor, worked three-eighths over the hill and through the stretch in :34% seconds. This colt is a half brother of Prince Charles, by Hamlet, also bred and owned by Colonel Taylor, whose place near Frankfort bears the name Scotland, which he gave to this ; promising colt. This workout was two-fifths of a second faster than the three-eighths trial of W. K. Caskeys Kavanaugh y ester- . day morning, though it was the impression of the workout watchers that the track was perhaps faster than yesterday. Capt. E. B. McKinley, of the Army Remount Service, has been advised that the government stallion Revenue Agent, by Sir Martin, is dead at Thomas McCaffreys Sunny Slope Farm near Cincinnati from strangulated hernia. There were eighteen mares there to be mated with him. Captain McKinley is trying to arrange a substitute for him. John Ixiwe has taken an apprentice contract on John .1. Collins, Jr. of New Orleans, who has been with him about twelve months. Jockey E. Eegere. who rode Quatrain when he won the New Orleans Handicap, arrived today from his home in California to ride for Clyde Van Dusen. Eugene Lutz spent today here en route from Tampa, Fla., to Arkon, Ohio, where his horse will arrive tomorrow morning. William Dondas motored here from Cincinnati today and went on to Louisville to see his horses. M. A. Jacobus is here from Tampa and will ship to Maple Heights after the Lexington meeting. John E. Madden went to Louisville today to be present at the departure of his horses for New York tomorrow. They will go in a train with the Widener and Fisher horses. Ceorge Hamlet Keene, trainer for the Widener stable, will come here tomorrow and depart for the East Wednesday morning. Jockey Earl Sande will also spend the day here, but will motor through to Belmont Park. The division of the Keeneland Stable which race here will be shipped from Louisville tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph E. Pons, of New York, arrived Sunday for a visit with Mrs. Kdward Kane at the Creenwich Stud and will be here for the Lexington races. James Cox Bradys Tea Biscuit, which has a foal by Man o War. has been sent to the Log Cabin stallion. Iadkin, which is standing at Creenwich Stud. There are now twenty-nine foals at this place.
