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RATES IN MEMORIAM HIGHLY Wood F. Axton Predicts McGee Stallion Will Produce Winner of the Kentucky Derby. LOUISVILLE. Ky., June 10.— Wood F. Axton, breeder and owner of a pretentious racing stable, returned to his home in this city after paying a visit to his racing establishment at Washington Park where he witnessed the sport Friday and Saturday. Mr. Axton takes great pride in his stallion In Memoriam. the son of imported McGee, which he feels will be a great success in the getting of thoroughbreds of high caliber since his son, Pittsburgher, owned by Theodore E. Mueller, a member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, has shown to be the greatest threat that the West can muster for the American Derby, to be run Saturday at Washington Park. Mr. Axton believes that In Memoriam will produce a Kentucky Derby winner before many more years pass. Wayne Lewis deplores the absence of Evan Neal, the contract rider for the stable Of Mr. Axton, who is still confined to the Deaconess Hospital in this city, where he was taken the last day of the Churchill Downs meeting when he suffered a badly smashed right foot while riding in the last race of the day. Neal, whose home is in California, is reported as doing extremely well at present, being able to walk without any pain and his physician expects to discharge him from the hospital by the middle pf the present week, when he will leave for Chicago to report to trainer Lewis.
