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MADDENS FARM AND HORSES. The farm contains now 280 acres and it extends for a mile along the Winchester road. The land is gently rolling and so situated as to be easily tillable, although at present it is all used for pasturage. The fences are painted black with tar, to prevent the horses from nibbling at them. The barns and outbuildings lire also painted black, with red trimmings, which gives a pretty effect. The residence is a handsome, roomy, modern structure with all conveniences, steam heat, gas, etc. Altogether the establishment might be set down anywhere in the vicinity of New York and would easily pass muster as a well kept, well equipped gentlemans place. Mr. Madden has just completed a now two story frame cottage which will be used as a kitchen and sleeping quarters for the help. Madden has twenty-six broodmares of his own, including Sot Fast, Pearl Thorne, Divide, Blissful, Lenatt, Amanda V., Strathreel and Helen Thomas, the two latter both daughters of Lady Reel. In the lot of ten yearlings there are three that impressed ma, as they have also impressed other and better judges, as far above the average. These are a chestnut colt by Falsetto Pearl Thorne, full brother to Pearl Set, Pearl Song, Counter Tenor, Barytone II. ana First Tenor; chestnut filly by Hanover Peg Wofiington, and chestnut filly by Meddler Royal Gun. The Falsetto Pearl Thorne colt looks very much like both Counter Tenor and Barytone II. He is a rangy, powerful, evenly balanced colt, with a white strip in his face and two white hind stockings. If he keeps on growing at the present rate he will be a bigger horse than Counter Tenor. He is a prompt, quick actioned levelheaded youngster. Burns and Waterhouse, owners of First Tenor, regarded as about the best 2-year-old in California, recently asked Mr. Madden to put a price on the colt. The figure named was a steep one. Pearl Thorne, a fine, lengthy mare, one of the two or three greatest in the stud book, is now in foal to Meddler. As an individual the Hanover Peg Wofiington filly would take a lot of beating in any company. Indeed, it is hard choosing as between her and the Falsetto colt. She has length, substance and is full of racing quality. Mr. Paget, who recently purchased her dam, thinks very highly of her, and it may bo that she will yet find a home in Mr. Whitneys stable. If looks count for anything, both these young-stors are bound to race. The Falsetto Pearl Thorne colt, especially, ought to be more than a mere possibility, for his dam has thrown nothing but hiih class racers. I he Royal Gun filly is more compact than either of the others. Still she has plenty of range and is a filly of great quality. Madden has a 2-year-old brother to Counter Tenor at Louisville which he thinks highly of. He will have in the neighborhood of thirty horses in training this year, all 2-year-olds except two or three. Ten of them are at Louisville and the balance at the farm. I did not have time to look over all the racers at the farm. Two, however, that I saw impressed me as decidedly more than useful. Those wcro a chestnut, brother to Hastings, and a bay, brother to Keenan. Both are big, strapping colts that may show to best advantage late in the season. The brother to Keenan will be quite as big as his famous relative, to judge from his present development, but he is a better and truer shaped horse. The brother to Hastings I fancy to be Maddens choice of the I pair and one likely to win in fine company when he is once fined down to racing fettle, Mr. Madden has on his place Bersan and ten broodmares in foal to the sire of Bermuda, which he recently sold to Mr. A. H. Moore, of Philadelphia, who is going into breeding on a small scale. His own stallions are Mirthful and Russell, received from the Messrs. Morris in part exchange for Glenheim. Mirthful has filled out and is now a fine, even, level type of horse. Madden will breed some of his mares to him this spring, although probably most of them will be stinted to suitable horses on neighboring farms. "Im going to have the finest little farm in Kentucky," said Madden, and if he keeps on with improvements it is not too much to say that be will make his boast good. He has recently put up at a cost of about ,000 a steel water tank with a capacity of 17,000 gallons. He is inventive and original. I noticed many little devices about his barns and stables that I had never seen elsewhere. In some of his stables he bad substituted iron for wooden feed boxes, with a slide door of iron netting on the outside that can be raised and lowered, so that the horses can be fed, and tne grooms can see whether they have oaten their feed without going into the stalls. The stables are well lighted and airy. Behind a good roadster the farm can be reached from Lexington in fifteen minutes. "I wanted a place near town," explained Madden, "so that if I had a customer for a horse I could get him out there before he had time to change his mind. I dont like them to get cold feet." S. B. Weems in Morning Telegraph.
