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MRS. MARS KENTUCKY STRING Fifteen Two -Year-Olds Among 30 Head at Churchill Downs. No Horse in the Stable Is More Than Four Years of Age Will Try for Third Score in Bashford Manor Stakes. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 9. Besides the valuable two-year-olds, embracing fifteen head, the Milky Way Farm stable of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, of Chicago, has a similar number of older horses with which to begin the spring racing season in Kentucky. This pretentious establishment is being whipped into shape at Churchill Downs under the direction of the veteran horseman Robert McGarvey. No horse in the stable is more than four years of age and included among them are nominees to each of the eight stakes, including the Kentucky Derby, which will be presented during the spring session opening here April 30. The four-year-olds number .six. STANDS OUT. Standing out among the nine three-year-olds are the stables powerful Derby hopefuls Tiger and Mountain Ridge. Two other of the horses of that age, Farrell and C-Note, also are listed Derby eligibles while others completing this division are Manie OHara and Harriet Ann, candidates for the Kentucky Oaks; Warbridge, John One and Quick Getaway. Some of the three-year-olds like several of their older stable companions have been made eligible for the Clark, Louisville, Churchill Downs and Kentucky Handicaps, while in the Derby Trial are the four Derby nominees. The stables four-year-olds are headed by the Latonia Derby winner Reaping Reward and others in this group are the grand filly Mars Shield, Military, Jaw Breaker, High Pressure and Nations Taste. Milky Way, which has won the last two renewals of the Bashford Manor Stakes, has named every one of the eleven juvenile colts for this years running of that race and all of its four young fillies for the revival of the Debutante Stakes. The colts are On Location, Up the Creek, Grey Dog, Sports Writer, Banner Man, Giles County, No Competition, Favorite Son, Time Please, Magic Key and Heel In, and the fillies are Dinner Date, Our Treat, Starry Path and Rule All. COSTLY YOUNGSTERS. Five of these juveniles cost upwards of 0,000 each, the most costly being On Location, a son of Teddy and Cinema, for which Mrs. Mars gave 6,900. Up the Creek, a son of Bull Dog and Wild Waters cost 3,000. Grey Dog, also by Bull Dog and from Lady in Grey represents an investment of 1,000, while 0,500 was paid for Banner Man, by Sickle and War Banner, and the son of Sir Gallahad IH. and Chickadee named Sports Writer, cost 0,300. Of the fillies Dinner Date, by Stimulus Heloise, and Our Treat from Risk and sired by the same stallion, cost ,000 each. Not only does this stable boast of the finest in blood stock but it also is fortified with one of the most able riders in the modern record of the sport. He is Alfred Robertson, who has been the Milky Way rider for several seasons, and while furnishing him with high grade mounts he usually returns a fine brand of riding.
