New-York tribune., 1922-02-12
Annual Sales
OF '2rot Horses
About 10 Ssari
Firs, Auclion of g.erurss
Coils and 3ccnr! Thor
oughl,rcds ~ Lexington
By frank 8. Cookc

In the interim Of fe.v rcos= b.
fore the formal aancaacen.ca cais os fha
Grand Circuit tracA- ard tselr hid for
entries in stake r,c.ts hos racn aro
making up thoir 81 ind- wnftarr tnc,-
VIII take r tbc late wiutor aDctiors
and stock OPP on c-its AHa record
horses. Tho FIRE. CO toesc tr sales
will be the ven lpc a. 1..,.l 0v.on. start
ing on February u. low YORK follow
with the annual blue RIBBON sale March
l3 week, and Chicago fnis1cs the cir
cuit on days beginning with March 2T
AS usual, the eature is The contriDu-
ton Of young stuF to Now YORK from
ihc Walnut Hail faym. ihr ce1 &C san
Francisco. Guy hsvofl'y. walnut Hall
and La Princeton, from which the high
dollar colt viii Come.
The market for good material is on
'hc tor wave Here is an Industrial
paradox. AUtonobilc ,nannf..cl.ro,s
havo been putting the knifc to thor
price lists. some o.! them lorring OF
almost half, and most of them taEing
at fcaTt - par cent from the list os
last tall I1c apioi~c criio r~S sun
planted the horse for road driving. hlt
COTS ina- give au lating of speed ard
dcvc lcpcd trctters tbtt e-c hei;e-ed 20
have bright fui.rc1 are hfisrirr nanra
than they did in tic day when me-
chnnlcs paid SO Tor pair o. shoes.
There is a troitcr i'm Iowa that nav
hGure IN an carly Transaction. for the
natives tab her as 2 rare prospect. This
ono IS Lady Expectation. 2:l,t< She
started eleven times lat year and Won
eight events, racing IN 2:I2is and
working in 2:1a4. with the last half
IN 1:O4. on half-nlile track. which
makes her worth while Not ONLY "a
her speed Of moment. but she is vc,v
closely related to that grand old war
rior Orc. 2:05'l, that the late "KnaD-
sack Mccarthy had on the big liae
some years ago, being by the same sire
with the same dams after the second
generation
Always there is interest in what a
Z. Coke, the most successful breeder IN
Pennsylvania, does with hi~ mares. M~.
Coke Is student Of breeding. and niS
own stallion. Dillon t,.~orthy. has
sired some Of the greatest Of colt tro1-
ters. MIR. Coke does net care very
much about racing them after Their
throe-year- form. preferring to turn
them to broodmaros.
Recently Mr. Coke sent - Kentucky
somc OF his famous young mares to hc
mated Vith outside horses Mss
Bertha Dillon. ":o@is. and Slater
BeTtha. 2:o2as, arc broted - Chestnut
Peter, ":05li owacf by G. ~. Leonard.
OF Boston, bur standjr~ at DAVID Look s
tastleton Farm. Tnig is \ hrh tribute
TO Chestnut Peter. that vas = very good
race horse himself and IS starting well.
his yearlings having sold for fancy
ngure5 laSt iali Aella Dill Ion, 2:n5'4
is to be bred u san Frareisco and Tho
Divorce, 2:o6 L, to reiw,n. a:Qss..
prominent Young sta ioa.
Sons CT Peter the Great aro N big
demand among the mare owners OF
kentucky and outsiders who conduct
breeding operations in the blue gas
section. Several Of them arc beinc.
well patronized. now thai il IS assured
that the Peters breed on. and owners az
one or two more have been imnortunsd
TO send their stalliors there. Gorge
w. Slaughter. Of Birmingham Nigh
has :. 1lattering Offer - rlace CIR
Peter at one Of the biz farms. tia:
stallion having attracted much atten-
tion through his son. Car WORTH.
2:o54., champion three-vear-oid gold
ing