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KEENELAND AUCTION APRIL 25 Thirty Lots to Be Offered Bidders During Afternoon. First Vendue Ever Held at New Lexington Track to Be Conducted Next Week Interest Manifest. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 19. From E. J. Tranters Lexington office there was issued today the catalogue for the sale of thoroughbred horses in training, yearlings, brood mares and sucklings, to be held at Keeneland on Monday, April 25, 1938, in the afternoon, there being no racing here on that date. This will be the first sale ever held at Keeneland, and the thirty lots to be offered are far superior to stock ordinarily entered for auction in the spring time in Kentucky. The estate of the late C. E. "Buddie" Hamilton, of Covington and Cincinnati, will sell Catherine F., Rocky Road and Galadore, horses in training at Keeneland now in charge of Howard Wells. Trainer Wells has a half interest -in Galadore. The Hamilton estate also will sell the brood mare For Keeps with a bay filly foal by Dress Parade at foot, and two yearling colts one by Gallant Sir For Keeps and another by Jock Gaffney Lass. THOMPSON CONSIGNMENT. Mrs. Charles Thompson, as agent for the estate of her late husband, former mayor of Lexington and one of the most popular men in central Kentucky during the last thirty years, will sell three two-year-olds in training in charge of Lee Darnaby at Keeneland, two yearlings and four brood mares with foals at foot. The horses in training are Try Hard, Flying Bonny and Risenfly, and the yearlings are fillies by Bostonian and Jock. The brood mares Drollery, Lady Supreme and Mary T. have foals by Wise Counsellor. The splendid mare Merry Terry, winner of Clipsetta Stakes, is overdue to foal to Hi-Jack. W. Arnold Hanger is selling four two-year-olds which Tom B. Young has been training for him at Keeneland. They are Bo Bend, Papalinda, Sidout and Silver Horn. The young trainer, Kenneth Cobb, will sell as agent four two-year-olds Hastada, Lady-heels, Shoofly and an unnamed daughter of Chatover Lucy Swift. C. A. Marone is selling his splendid brood mare My Carolyne dam of Our Carolyne and her bay filly foal by Mirafel. Mrs. A. E. Reuben is sending down from her Hasty House Farms at Toledo, Ohio, the three-year-old chestnut gelding Discriminator, by Display Virginia B. Discriminator, like Play Here, a two-year-old son of Playtime, which Wiley Bros, of Midway, are offering, has never been on a race track and is broken only to ride. DAVIS SELLING MARES. Horace N. Davis, as agent, is selling the brood mares Affection, Carola and Marmi-tina, all in foal, the latter to Cohort. S. O. Richardson III., of Toledo, Ohio, is selling Back Chat, a three-year-old daughter of Blue Larkspur from Busy Tongue, which Charles Gentry has been training at Keeneland. The sale will begin promptly at 2 oclock with Doc Bond as auctioneer and Thomas B. Cromwell as representative of E. J. Tranter, who is busy at his office in New York, and will be unable to comfe to Kentucky at this time. The sale will be held rain or shine. There will be ample accommodations for all who will attend. The brood mares, foals and yearlings to be offered by Mrs. Charles R. Thompson are at Melrose Farm on Leestown Pike, adjoining Lexington Cemetery. . . . Horace N. Davis mares are at his Blue Grass Heights Farm on the Old Frankfort Pike. . . . C. E. Hamilton estates mare, foal and yearlings are at Dr. Charles Hagyards Greenridge Farm on Paris Pike, and C. A. Marones My Carolyne and her foal are at Dr. Marius Johnstones Montrose Farm on Bryan Station Pike. The horses in training are at Keeneland in charge of Howard Wells, Lee Darnaby and Tom B. Young, respectively.
