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Breeders SalesCompIetes Keeneland Negotiations Gets Long-Term Track Property Lease for Sales, Training Course LEXINGTON, Ky., June 25.— Completion of negotiations with Keeneland for along-term lease of property at the track for the conduct otits auction sales was announced today by Breeders Sales Company. The new lease terminates the present one which was to expire in 1956. The Breeders Sales Company was organized in 1944 by virtually the same horsemen that founded Keeneland in 1935. All of the companys sales have been conducted there, the total sales for the 10-year period amounting to 8,876,125. While the company will continue to manage its own affairs, provisions of the new lease will bring a closer association between the sales cooperative and the track. Through this closer association, it was announced, the two groups can better solve various problems of the Kentucky thoroughbred industry. One of the problems, it was stated, is the demand for a local training track and additional stall space for sales yearlings. "Keeneland is about the only track in the country available for yearling breaking," William S. Evans; sales company manager said today. "But each year the yearlings have to be removed from the course in the middle of their training to make room for the horses that ship in for the October race meeting." As a solution to the interruption of yearling training, the new lease with Keeneland calls for the sales group to finance the construction of a five-furlong training trackt.and four additional barns at Keeneland. This will allow yearlings purchased in the -sales to train at the track without interruption during the fall race meet. Construction of the new track barns was begun last week at Keeneland*
