The St. Louis Republic., 1902-02-02
KENTrcI1y nnooDMAnEs SUFFER.
Eorsc,ncn Fear Eject of Continuous
Fall OF Siect and snow.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Lexington, Ky. Feb 1.-The Blue Grass
has for several days been going through
the most trying weather on breeding stock
which has been experienced III Central Ken
tucky since the memorable sieet of Isp
Slcet and rain alternately fell for several
days. and, what breeders always fear.
rain which vets the coat Of the hr19d
mares running in thc pastures, followed q
freeze. which covers them with thn
coating Of ice, as il were. has been on tAe
weather bill right straight along. Jogging
work on the roads has not even been
with sufficient stablinS have housed every
korse ON the place. The snow. which Is from
four to six inches deep was covered by
hard crust of sleet, and such a thing as
nipping at the dry grass was impossible
Stock had to be generously fed, and the
difference in the fccd bills caused by the
adverse spell Of weather will run up into
thousands. Trees and telephone wires were
broken down in all directions. and progress
several times
S. T. HARRISON, the noted horseman and
former director of the Kentucky TrottinS
Horse Breeders Association, is advocating
Il scheme which is meeting with general ap-
provai. Ii is nothing more than proposi-
ton to organize "A stock company, with a
capital of $4,000 and erect a big coliseum
on the lines of Madison Square Garden. for
the purpose of giving a big horse show
every year. and incidentally to be used for
combination sales. political conventions and
other gatherings of like character 1t is
proposed to have seating capacity of A.
900 Horssmen think that such a building
in which Kentucky horse shows could be
held would be of the greatest advantage to
the business In this section, attracting buy
country.
Another stallion has been taken from TIL,
ranks Of horses in training and sent TO the
stud. in Jay Macgresgor t2). 2:25la, owned by
W. l.. Spears of Muir Station. Jay Mac
gregor is sired by Jay Hawker. liza. that
in his limited stud service, cut short bv his
II o,,I
Country Jay 2:i5ik. Jay Macgregsor az, Is
the only foai of Notre Dame. 2:2Ss., BY Rob
Of Ashmund. 2:l7 Wiicrist. 2:17li; Tapistrv.
e:2l, and Notre Dame. 2:2Sa,. Jay Macgrea-
sor not only took a mark of 2:25h. as a .
year-old. but trotted trial in 2:20i4 Mr..
Spears has always thought that the ONLY
thing which lost him the 2-year-old Futuri.
ty was the sickiiess of the colt some days
Spears was thrown from the sulky and
broke kneecap. Jay Maccregsor did not
go to the post in the .Fuirrity last year. but
he he worked mils in 2:ip@ and a fourth
heat in 2:lo in his preparation He is a
big, strifins-looking bay, with splenfii
Snnld Sig aie net ihGscs br ne Ho WEI developed and
He served a few mares last season before
BENG Being; put ,s,n in trainins ana the dams of
others In the 2:l5 list are in foal 10 Rim
this spring That the dams of Susie jay
and Country Jay were stintcd to Jay Mae
EreSor is not surprising in view of the fact
that both, these sterling. one might say
sensational. performers were from the lon
of Jayhawker. 2:li;;i. the sire of Jay Mac
greeor. In jay NcGresor they have the
same nick re-enforced by the Robert Mac
gregor blood through Notre Dame. -i'''
There are but seven toals by the yearliug
champion Adbe!l, 2:25. that are as old as
wears as one of his first crop Gied They
are q hliey owned by Brook Curry that will
be placed in the stud. AdabeIla (2l. 2:25i4.
winner of the New England F'utuTity. that
tro:ted the Glen Fails track in 2:liI, in
September, 1900: Roweliar 81. 2:f5s,, that
won the Horse Review Futuri;y in 1901:
Brooklyn. \. Y: .Adlinn. that trotted a
quarter in 2, seconds. and To Arms mile IN
2:22 ON this showing Adbeu certainly looks
as l. he were worth the nnnev that J I'M
f. Madden gave for hin in the Faslg'rpton
sales. He IS now occupying a stall at the
Elmv'ood Farm cf ". w Estili where he
will make the season of 1892, if Madden does
not dispose Of him before that time
W. J.. Spear. owner Of Jay Macgreagor,
2;2aiH, has sold the 2-year-old colt by Jay
Bird, darn R!ack Bess, for Sl,0CO. The young
ster showed very fast rs yearlinc
+ s; Neach Of St. Matthews Ky. has
shipped 10 the Lexington track sixteen
head OF 2 and 3-year-oids. They are by
They will he placed in training as soon as
the track is oren for work. Mat S. Cohen,
Richmond: Ky. will send to Scott Hudson
in few Gavs the chestnut mare Miss OTIS
years old by Baron Bel. 2:eiI.. dam the
dam of lolu. 2:21$l, bv Peavipe The mare
was IL; Hudson's stable last year and
worked-thrce heats for him in 2l9i. q is.
and 2:iG5.
w c. Gcrrrley of Richmond has pur
chased from che l.. H. jones heirs the pIcp-
erty in Madison County known as the Harry
Wilkes Park. and will build a stable pre-
pardtorN to training a large string of trot-
will be known in the future as fiaxhall
Stock Farm.