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LEXINGTON TURF NOTES Major Louis A Beard general manager of the racing interests of the Whitney farms and secretary of the newly organized Amer ¬ ican Thoroughbred Breeders Association has returned to Lexington after a visit in the East He reports that he will shortly be able to announce the exact date for the associations meeting at Saratoga during the race meeting there in August AugustCharles Charles E Ballard of French Lick Springs has purchased from W Webb Offutt George ¬ town Ky breeder two promising yearling colts One is a brown by Chance Shot or Haste from Laughing Eyes II by St Rock The other is a chestnut son of Chance Shot or Haste from Tousle by St Rock They will LexingtonA be taken up and broken at Lexington A yearling halfbrother to Mata Hari was found dead with a broken neck in a field at Charles T Fishers Dixiana one day this week The youngster a chestnut colt by High Time War Woman by Man o War was one of the most promising of the Dixi ¬ ana yearlings The only explanation that could be offered at the farm for his death was that while romping in the paddock he had run full tilt into another colt and broke his neck The remaining sixteen yearlings at Dixiana are to be taken up within a few days for breaking Farm manager Ross Long has just returned to Lexington for this work after a successful tour with Dixianas show horse stable stableMr Mr and Mrs Walter M Jeffords have left for home after several days at Faraway Farm here and Samuel D Riddle owner of Faraway has arrived to inspect the horses there and to talk over plans with farm manager Harrie B Scott Thirteen colts and sixteen fillies compris ing the yearling crop at Mrs Payne Whit neys Greentree Farm will be shipped within the next ten days to Mrs Whitneys farm at Red Bank N J
