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LEXINGTON TURF NOTES LEXINGTON Ky May 24 24Extend Extend threeyearold Gallant Fox gelding geldingowned owned by Dan B Midkiff and Thomas B BCromwell Cromwell was shipped to Detroit in charge chargeof of John Good GoodR R Sterling Clark Virginia breederowner and Humphrey S Finney secretary of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association were here recently to inspect mares and foals owned by Mr Clark ClarkHowe Howe Stables Lance Bearer has arrived at Elsmeade Farm to be turned out Cy White will this year break twentyone year ¬ lings at Elsmeade Farm for Mr and Mrs Ambrose Clark and the Howe Stable StableThere There are sixteen yearlings at Stoner Creek Stud farm of Mr and Mrs J D Hertz this spring It is the intention of Mrs Hertz to race only ten of them Cromwell Bloodstock Agency has been instructed to sell any six of them In other words cus ¬ tomers can take their picks at the owners prices pricesLocal Local friends of Jesse Spencer have heard from Louisville that he is putting up a game fight against long odds for his life During the last three weeks he has been in two hospitals and has had the attention of five physicians and three nurses His sister who came from Miami has been given power of attorney to documents incident to the dis ¬ posal of his horses which Cromwell Blood ¬ stock Agency will undertake to sell pri ¬ vately beginning Wednesday at Churchill Downs DownsC C C Van Meters twoyearold chestnut gelding One Link by Only One Royal Chain by Royal Canopy was timed a quar ¬ ter is 227 at Keeneland recently One Link was bred in Virginia by Alexander A Bald ¬ win and is one of the fastest twoyearolds shown at Keeneland this year It is likely that trainer Willies Crump will take him to Chicago to race raceT T H Heard of Refugio Texas owner of Be Blue has purchased from Horace N Davis Son Blue Grass Heights Farm the suckling sister to that good mare by Blue Larkspur Be Still by Dozer She is to re main at the farm until weaning time timeJohn John O Whitlow shipped Forfend to Lin ¬ coln Fields Sunday Roy Carruthers and Thomas B Cromwell each own a quarter interest in this daughter of Saxon Petite and Whitlow owns onehalf interest She wintered good and has been at Keeneland since early spring springWilliam William Baldwin Miller master of Green ¬ wich Stud is here from Greenwich Conn to inspect his mares foals and yearlings which are residents of Henry H Knights Almahurst Farm Henry H Knight after a few days at the arm returned to Chicago Monday morning and will later in the week be in New York and may see some of the racing at Belmont Park ParkR R E Dick McMahan retired manager of Calumet Farm is to depart for New York next weekend and has planned a twomonth stay at eastern points principally at Goshen where Walter Cox has the two young trot ¬ ters McMahan bought last fall and at Old Orchard Maine
