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I ] « * . x i f f s i . -, j t , t I * f _ - — — c i PONDER GRANVILLES FUTURE I j ; Virginians Hope Arrangements Will I Be Made to Keep Stallion in the State — Gilpin Dispersal. I i -*— — — x LEXINGTON, Ky., June 22.— When Ken- I neth N. Gilpin announced his decision to disperse his entire stud of thoroughbreds at Saratoga on the morning of Saturday, August 12, the question of the future of Granville, which he has under lease from William » Woodward, became a matter of wide dis- £ cussion, principally in Virginia, where it I was hoped that arrangements for his re-1 maining in that state could be made. An- j ■ nouncement, however, is now forthcoming i ■ from John Hay Whitney that he has taken I I over Mr. Gilpins lease for the next two ■ seasons and has an option to extend the j ■ lease. a TRANSFER SIRE. The brilliant son of Gallant Fox is to be s transferred from Kentmere Farm, Boyce, ■ Va., to the John Hay Whitney farm, near *■ Lexington, in a few days. * Another announcement of general interest to lovers of thoroughbred horses is that r Cavalca» e, which made the season just E closed at Henry H. Knights Almahurst Farm, near Nicholasville, is to go to the Jj Brookmeade Farm of his owner, Mrs. Isabel J Dodge Sloane, at Upperville, Va., where he stood in 1937. Hugh Fontaine, manager of Brookmeade Farm, states that High Quest will be sent ? from Brookmeade to Almahurst for the sea-son of 1940. J1 in b _______
