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PRODUCERS ARE OPTIMISTIC Development of Thoroughbred Breeding Industry Apparent. Liberality of Nominations to Future Kentucky Races Indicates Confidence Of Breeders. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 30. A healthy development of the American thoroughbred breeding industry and an optimistic view of racing on the part of thoroughbred producers is indicated by the liberality with which nominal tons have been mad" for the Kentucly Jockey Club Stakes, to be decided In 1921. and the Breeders Futurity and La-tonia Championship Stakes, to he decided in 1922. These races closed on July 1, the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes attracting 340 nominations, the Breeders Futurity 558 and the . Latonia Championship 325. The creation of these great races is part of the forward looking policy determined on by the new Kentucky Jockey Club last year for promoting the -development and conservation ju the United States of the highest types of long distance running thoroughbreds, the continuous production of which in vast numbers has been declared by the highest -military authority to be indispensable to effective national defense. To win such juvenile specials as the Breeders Futurity and the Kentucky Jockey Club, Stakes, which will always be run In the fall of the year, and such a three-year-old special as the Latonia Championship, horsemen must in future refrain from overrating their good two-year-old colts, and fillies through the spring and early summer," before their bones and muscles have become sufficiently mature to enable them to stand the rigors of hard training and racing without the risk of injury of a permanent character. That thoroughbred production is fast assuming the character of a great national industry is evidenced by the number of the states represented among the nominations for these specials. Maryland, which up to a couple of years back was a negligible factor in thoroughbred production, takes rank with .Kentucky and Virginia and New York as a leading contributor to the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, the Breeders Futurity and the Latonia Championship. One of the heaviest nominators of Maryland is William Woodward, founder of the Belair Stud of Prince George County, one of whose yearlings a colt by Wrack Medora brought the third biggest price realized in the course of the recent ; yearling sales at Saratoga. Another formidable Maryland nominator is Commander J. Iv. L. Ross of Montreal, whose Ross Farms Stud, domiciled in Howard County, is now the homo of Cudgel, greatest of the recent sons of Broomstick, and is soon to be the abiding place of Sir Barton, the leading money winner of 1919 and the champion of the older division of racers of 1920. In a few years Commander Ross, whose Maryland breeding investment has reached ,000,000 already, will be one of the greatest thoroughbred producers on the continent. In addition to naming for the Kentucky specials various foals and yearlings bred in Maryland, Commander Ross is a nominator of some fifteen or twenty budding racers that were foaled on his farm at Vercheres, which is in the Canadian province of Quebec Other Maryland nominators of consequence are Richard F. Carman, proprietor of the Camandale Stud, and Alfred Ilcnnen Morris and. Robert J. Walden, proprietors of the Bowling Brook Stud, which has been reorganized and restocked. WESTERN STATES REPRESENTED. William R. Ccc, one of the leading racing men of the East, whose great three-year-old filly Cleopatra- has won distinction in various parts of the country this year, is a nominator of divers young-sters. by Folymclian, Harmonicon and tfwecp that wero bred on his Shoshone ranch in Wyoming, and C-cr.rge Wingfichl of Reno is a. contributor of nominations from his Nevada Stock Farm that are by his English stallions Athcliug and Honejv wood. Californias reviving breeding industry is represented by nominations from J. H. Ros-setcrs Wikiup ranch. The farms of New York, notably Sunbriar Court, now the home of Sun Briar, the two-year-old champion of 1917; Runny-mcde, the domicile of the stud of Gifford A. Coch-ran; Ilurricana, tlje home cf the Sanford stud; and Eastview, the home of the stud of James Butler, are contributors. The biggest contributions of New Jersey are from the Brookdale Stud of Harry Payne Whitney, which has given John P. Grier, Wildair, Upset ami other crack three-year-olds, in addition to a band of star two-year-olds, to this years racing. Virginias breeding industry is represented by nominations from the Oakridge Stud of Thomas Fortune Ryan, the traction magnate of New York City; the Ellcrslie Stud of Arthur B. Hancock, whence have come the 191S Futurity winner Dun-boyne and the brilliant two-year-old filly of the current year. Ten-Lcc; the Page Brook Stud of Captain Philip M. Walker, and the Blue Ridge Stud of Henry T. Oxnard, which has produced the capital three-year-olds Gladiator, Sitndy Beal and Dinna Care; and the Canterbury Stud of J. Temple Gwathmcy of New York. There arc, moreover, nominations from Tennessee, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and other states. Among the great breeders of Kentucky, the leading state in the production of thoroughbreds now, as it has been for more than a half century, who have made entries are J. II. Madden. Kenneth Alexander, Charles II. Berryman, Edward It. Bradley, Arthur I!. Hancock, Hal Price Headley, II. H. Hewitt, John Oliver Keene, Thomas C. McDowell, William B. Miller, Thomas Piatt, J. W. Parrish, George J. Long, Eugene IZuckcr, Edward F. Simms, W. V. Thraves, Senator Johnson N. Camden, Charlton Clay, T. J. Clay, G. II. Clay and others.
