view raw text
MB. WHITNEY LEASES KANCOCAS. i William C. Whitney will not buy the Hanco-cas Stock Farm from Mrs. Lillian Barnes Allien, for it is not for sale, but he has acquired con-, .trol of tho property for a term of years and in-, tonds making an experiment which will determine whether a New Jersey farm can turn out a racing thoroughbred of as high a clase as tboso of Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Whitney bolievos that he can make bis plan a success. Ho will accordingly bring up from Kontucky tho stud he has maintained at La Belle and domicile it at Rancocas. j The stud includes the great Hamburg, tho Imported stallion Meddler, also Lis- sak, Jean Beraud, Loki, Ballyhoo Bev and others; the noted mans, Lady Reel, Ballyhoo, Kild oer, Black Venus, and a number of valuable-yearlings, including a filly by St. Simon Lady Reel, hence a half Bister to Hamburg. Mr. Whitney paid 9,C00 for Meddler at tha dispersal sale of the late Malcolm Forbes, of Boston, who imported the stallion from England. Last summer Meddlor was well represented by John Sanfords Rockton, winner of the Saratoga Handicap; Mr. Whitnsys three-yoar-old Morningsid and two-yoar-old Goldsmith, together with J. G. Follanbaes colt Cameron. Hamburg cost Mr. Whitney 0,000 at the Marcus Daly sale, the contending bidder being J. B. Haggin, who stopped at 9,000. "Mr. Lorillard and I talked over the poesi-bilitiB of Rancocas Farm many times," Mr. Whitney said, "and both of us were of the opinion that it could tutn out ao great horses as any place in the United Btates. We understood tho advantages of the blue grass region of Tonnessee and Kentucky, and admit, that it has cut a bigger figurs in turf history than New Jorsey, but we thought that New Jersey had not had a fair trial. I woald be perfectly content to leave my stud in Kentucky if Kentucky were closer to New York. The objection to La Belle Farm is that it is so far away and I cant see my stallions and mares more than once a year. A man as fond of his horses as I am wants to eoe them oftener than that. Rancocas is close by. I can run over there almost any day and make tha trip comfortably. I think I will be able to show that Rancocas grass is as nutritious as blu grass. Mr. Lorillard cultivated grass in a scientific way, and Rancocas produces tha best in New Jersey. If we find, after a fair trial, that Rancocas Farm cant tarn out high-class winners we will have to change. The country-round about Rancocos produces the finost milk hereabouts, and it is reasonable to suppose that a ccuntry producing good milk will produce, under the proper influences, good horses. The foals are nourished by their dam, you know. I dont think tho Jersey climate is against the experiment. If anything, the winters around Rancocos are less rigorous than the winters about Lexington, and wiB. hardly overtax tho vitality of the young horses." Now York Sun.
