Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — ELIGIBLE FOR BIG FUTURITY [ARTICLE]

ELIGIBLE FOR BIG FUTURITY

tucky ClaVslc Show. W4-Many*" From Blue Grass State. association has announ'Sd that 874 Kentucky Ftiturity, |21.000. fttf foalsThe list comes from 87 states, and from Canada and England. The list aggregates 311, and 3 Z have five weanlings to their credit, or a total of 478, this number representing 55 per cent .of the entire list The largest list comes from W. E. D. Stokes’ farm, the Patchen Wilkes nursery, at Lexington, which names 88 entries, 48 of which are by Peter the Great Walnut Hall farm, owned by L. V. Harkness, also contributes 62 and for the first time in many years is second in the list of entries. The majority of these are by Moko, Walnut Hall and Ozone. Other farms represented are J. K. Newton’s place, Callborne farm, William Allen Russell’s place, Simpson’s Empire City farms; Cuba, N. Y.; the International Stock Pood farm of Minneapolis, Minn. Peter the .Great heads the stallions with 80 weanlings, probably the record number by one sire in any renewal of the Futurity, These 26 sires represent the fashionable and popular blood lines of the present day, and all but four have records in standard time. Ten have records from 1:55 to 2:08%. In the list by states, Kentucky leads, furnishing about 40 per cent In this connection it is of Interest to note that Kentucky breeders named about 40 per cent of the mares entered, .last March. New York holds second place, with 123 weanlings kept in. Both of these states show a liberal increase over last year, and over one-half the total list of weanlings have been mitered by the breeders of these two states. Massachusetts, as usual, comes third, being represented by 69, and this year Pennsylvania advances to fourth place with 43.