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GARDNER ABANDONS SIXTY ♦ New Yorker Now Using- Orthodox Method of Christening. ♦ Custom Originated Because of Winning Bet of 0.60 — Clyde Van Dusen Best of His Breeding. • The stable of H. P. Gardner, which has as its star Clyde Van Dusen. Kentucky Derby winner, and which will be one of the largest establishments to be campaigned at the approaching Arlington Park meeting, will contain among its members only one upon which has been bestowed a double numeral for a name. This is a two-year-old that has been named Twenty-Five Sixty. The custom of adopting numerals for the names of most of his young horses, began by Mr. Gardner eight years ago when he gave the name of Ten-Sixty to the first thoroughbred he bred and which custom he continued each succeeding year, has evidently been abandoned by that owner, and he is now reverting to the more sensible plan pursued by the great majority of turfmen in naming their horses. This is undoubtedly a wise move, and will meet with popular approval, for numeral nomenclature is meaningless and confusing, because there is too much similarity in such names. Mr. Gardner, it is related, conceived his unusual idea of naming his horses about ten years ago after he had won a wager on a horse that paid a straight price of 0.60 for a ticket. In the spring of 1920. when Princess Cog, by Caughnawaga, the first mare Mr. Gardner owned, foaled a filly by Trap Rock, he named her Ten-Sixty. This filly, now in her ninth year, won many races in the Gardner colors and is still racing, but for another owner. Mr. Gardner, who is a broom manufacturer of Amsterdam, N. Y., first became interested in thoroughbreds through his neighbor, John Sanford, whose extensive Hurricana Stud, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, has produced many good horses. It was not long before Mr. Gardner blossomed out as a breeder of thoroughbreds, and also as the owner of a racing stable. In recent years most of his horses have been bred at Clyde Van Dusens Few Acres Farm, near Lexington, Ky. Mr. Gardner is justly proud of his colt Clyde Van Dusen, the best horse he ever bred, and whose success in the Kentucky Derby realized his owners fondest hopes. Uncles Lassie, dam of Clyde Van Dusen, is still at Few Acres Farm. Twenty-two horses will comprise the stable that trainer Van Dusen will campaign at Arlington. They will include, besides the Kentucky Derby winner, Gardner Derr. Ed Reese, Miss Torch, May Gardner, Henrietta Hardies, Twenty-Five Sixty, Peggy Lee, Prince Toka-lon, Little Bo, Sir Dean, Little Torch and Torch Boy, which are the property of Mr. Gardner, and Stolen Kisses, Narva, Mansfield, Sada, Delmonico, Unknown Woman, Doctor David, Silk Legs and Mae Moore, which run in the colors of W. C. Goodloe, well known Kentucky turfman. «
