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KENTUCKY GREETS EARL p3nglish Nobleman and Racing Patron Entertained First in hv Blue Grass Region LEXINGTON Ky May 14 The right honorable Earl of Derby K G P C arrived in Lexington this morning for a twoday visit to the Blue Grass before attending the classic race in Louisville Saturday that bears the name of his ancestor He left Washington WashingtonD D C last night in the private car of Joseph JosephE E Widener who will be his host here Accompanying the Earl were his daughter inlaw Lady Maureen Stanley and Mr Wide Jier who plans an extensive entertainment program for the distinguished guests at Elmendorf his stock farm farmThe The Earl of Derby whose name is Edward CJcorge Villiers Stanley is the owner of one of the best stallions ever imported from abroad Sickle which is at Elmendorf under a threeyear lease to Mr AVidener Sickle jcame to this country last fall from the coun try estate of his owner He is by Phalaris the son of Polymelus and Maid Marian and this dam Selene is by Chaucer from Serenis Isima A feature of the Earls stay in Fayette jcounty will be a motion picture interview for the Kentucky progress commission through JC Frank Dunn executive secretary of the organization who states that the film record will probably be exhibited at a local theater next week The cinema will be made by the iKiefer Motion Picture Laboratories of Cin ¬ cinnati cinnatiThe The Earl is an ardent devotee of racing and Till present the winner of the Derby with the itrophy and make an address which will be broadcast on a nationwide radio hookup hookupAs As a youth the Earl of Derby served as aidedecamp to the Governor General of Canada and later in Africa under Field Marshal Lord Roberts His Earldom was created in 1483 and he is seventeenth of the line bearing that title His ancestors have always been outstanding in the field of racing and other sports sportsTwo Two other thoroughbred stallions of Lord Derbys breeding are in the Blue Grass They are Light Brigade at Senator Johnson Cam dens Hartland Farm in AVoodford county and Pharamond II which is now at Hal Price Headleys Beaumont Farm FarmGovernor Governor Sampson has declared Saturday a state holiday in honor of the Earl of Derbys first visit to Kentucky Lord Derby will be the guest of Mr AVidener who will give a small dinner at Elmendorf Thursday night Friday Senator Camden will give a luncheon at Spring Hill and Friday night there will le a dinner given by Col Matt J Winn in Louisville in honor of Lord Derby at which the governor of Kentucky will bid him wel ¬ come to the state
