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ELMENDOfttf SI HE 3. Thsre aro over four thousand acres in Elmen-dorf, and art has combined with nature to make it one of the finest country estates in the world. A number of biae grass farms have bean thrown together by Mr. Jamas B. Haggin, and around tho entire tract has been built a massive stone wall. This feature alone was enormously expensive. The residence, now approaching completion, is probably the most imposing in Kentucky, and it stands on a hill which commands a wide stretch of country. Stables, sheds and other buildings, as well aa fences, are being removed, so that nothing may broak the stretch of groan and mar the pros pect. Standing by the lofty colonnades, Mr. Hag-gin will look out upon undulating pastures, in which highly bred harses graze, and ba in truth monarch of all that he surveys. The stable for driving horses, near the house, is fireproof and of beautiful architectural design. The Kenny house has been converted into a laundry, with sleeping rooms overhead for domestics. The track on which the ex-trotting quaen, Nancy Hanks, 2:04, received ber first lossons in harness, is now kept soft for the runners, and wa found the tig stable, built in thepalmy days of Bichard Penistan, full of two and three-year-olds in training. There are 400 thoroughbred mareB in breeding rr.nks at Elmendorf, and tho trotting brood; mares number fifty-two. Tha thoroughbred weanlings are well grown, and the number ib ninety-seven. Tha crop for 1902 will ba more than double this. A steam mill,, for crushing oata and grinding corn, is run exclusively for tha farm, and everything about it is as tidy as could ba desired. The stallions are kept in a Btablo which is merely a row of fireproof box stallB. George Kassler is a horsa that carries the blood of champions. He is by tha great Salvator, out of the great race mare Miss Woodford, winner of thirty-seven racas. He was unfortunate in his races, but won the Great American Stakes. He is an impressive looking stallion, has a number of weanlings, and twenty-six mares ware bred to him last spring. Juvenal, by Springfield, by St. AlbanB, by Stockwell, out of Satire, by Blair Athol, by Stockwoll, la now twslvo years old, and prominent among his get are Chacornac a Futurity winner, Musette and Satirist. Hie chestnut coat and whito markings Icontrastod sharply with tho blue grasB carpet on which he stood, and his form compelled admiration. Twenty-seven mares wera bred to him last spring. Order, by Ben dOr, by Doncaster, b otockwdll, out of Augolicd, by Galopin was bred by the Duke of Westminster, and stands CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. : i i ; : i ; . , . , . . . . L , t . i ELMENDORF SIRES. Continued from first page. 16.1. He is thirteen years old, carries the blood of Orma, sire of Flying Fox, and is himself the sire of Ornament. He is a horse that everyone asks to see when they go to Elmendorf, is high in flesh, and his complement of mares laBt spring was thirty. High Order, b. c, 4, by Order Tongf bo, by Hanovor, she out of Mollie L., by Longfellow, will enter the stud next spring. As a two-year-old he was second in tho Junior Champion at Gravesend, and as a three-year-old he won two out of three starts, including the Hudson Stakes. Bathampton, by Hampton, by Lord Clifden, by Now-minster, dam The Bat, by Hermit, by New-minster, is a horse of rare quality and very kind in disposition. The climate of Kentucky evidently agrees with him, and ha was bred to twenty-five mares the past season. Arkle, a brown horse, foaled in 1894, is by Arklow, by Ben dOr, by Doncastar, by Stockwell, out of Angelica, by Galopin, and he ia liked bo well that twenty-nina mares were bred to him this year. ShapftU, by Kendal, by Ben dOr, out of Angelica, by Galopin, we found on the sick list. Duncombe is a brown horse seventeen years old, by Speculum, by Vedette, by Voltigeur, out of Fair Helen, by General Peel, by Young Melbourne, and he carries his age wall. Twenty mares wore bred to him. A chestnut horse of marked vitality was led out to halter. He had been rolling in the loos 3 dirt and looked untidy, but tho dust could not blindfyou to his strong points. This chestnut horse was Balvator, who was never unplaced but once during .his racing career and who won 20,365. His mile at Monmouth Park in 1:S54 is unbeateu, and it placed a halo around the head of the eon of Prince Charley and Salina, daughter of Lexington. Salvator was foaled at Elmendorf in tho days of Daniel 8 wigert, and he is fifteen years old. He is heavier than ev6r before in hie life, although he takes a great deal of exercise in the paddock, and was bred to eighteen mares in tho spring. Another horse tbat came out of his box with .mud-Btained coat was Bon Holladay, a bay, foaled in 1893, by Hanover MollieL by Longfellow, she out of Mollie McCann, by Hunters Lexington. He is a.norvoas. horse, with strong quality, and Octobsr 23, 1897, ran one mile and three-quarters, over the hill, at Morris Park, 11 S pounds up, in 2:591. This was a record performance until October 13, 1900, when Ethelbert ran the distance in 2:581. Tho mares bred to Ben Holladay last spring wero some of the best at Elmendorf, and their number was twenty-three. Kinley Mack .was restless as he stood on the stable lawn, albeit he stopped now and then to nibble at a bunch of clover. He was foaled in 1893, stands 16.2, and is by Islington Bong-: stress, by Luke Blackburn, sho out of Malibran. by Cathedral. Although a partial cripple, he did, in 19C0, what no other horse has done, won the Brooklyn Handicap, 122 pounds, in 2:10, and the Suburban Handicap, 125 pounds, in 2:06. Mr. Haggin will give him a great chance in the stud next spring. Two of tho trotting stallions at Elmendorf are Worthier, by Advertiser Waxana, dam of Sunol and Dan Cupid, 2:09i. Mares of prepotent blood will be bred to them. There is much work yet to be done at Elmendorf, and when the architects and ekillid laborers take their loava Mr. J. B. Haggin will have one of the best located and best equipped country seats in the world. Turf, Field and Farm.
