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KENTUCKIANS IN SELLING CRAZE Nearly Every Breeder in the Blue Grass Country Im ¬ patient and Bearish Lexington ICy August 29 Weaning time Is at hand and the sucklings are being taken from their dams on the thoroughbred breeding farms A ith tills parting of the foal and the mother will come in many instances the parting of the owner with his mares Within the coming ninety days probably as many as 1001 possibly more mares will be sold oil the farms in the vicinity of Lexington Colonel Milton Young lias 300 mares and will sell them all J B Haggin contemplates putting about 50 ma ¬ trons on the market Edward Corrigan will sell all of ids He lias sold a good many and has over fifty left There Is scarcely a breeder in tin Blue Grass country who will not have from one to twenty to get rid of Some of them will be sold privately but the majority will go by auction auctionJust Just when and where the sales will be held has not been determined but that they will all be held in this vicinity is practically certain It is not beyond the range of possibilities that there will shortly be a conference of the breeders out of whicli may come an understanding that the sales all be held within a given period and advertised so that the buyers will not be required to make more than one trip for what the3 want nor spend a great deal of time in getting it Colonel Young has already said that he intends to sell liis mares at McGrath iana Farm about October 1 Mr Haggin may decide to hold his sale on Elmendorf Farm about the same time If he does this the smaller breeders will probably bring their offerings into tiie city and sell at Horsemens Headquarters HeadquartersIt It will be probably the biggest cheap sale of thoroughbreds ever held in this country A great many very excellent mares will go under the ham ¬ mer but no fancy prices will be obtained and are not expected The conditions and the situation seem to be pretty well understood throughout the country Letters by the score are pouring into the breeders requesting Information concerning the probable time for selling There is a good demand for thorough ¬ bred mares in all sections and for all purposes ex ¬ cept the production of race horses It would appear that the writers of these letters have come to know the value of this warm strain when crossed with the heavierbodied coldblooded animals Not a few ranchmen are seeking the mares for the iniprove ment of range horses and likewise a number want them to mate witli saddle stallions Dealers every ¬ where are writing to know about how many from the ages of three to seven years will be offered These it is expected are wanted for general pur ¬ poses to harness harnessThe The question of selling these mares with or with ¬ out pedigree has arisen among the breeders They are divided in opinion It is reasonable to presume that the best ones will bo sold with pedigree and that the cheaper ones will go without name or crrtilicate A great many mares and yearlings have already been so disposed of It is safe to say that lOOO have passed into the hands of dealers within the past ten weeks alid that seventy per cent of them have gone without indentilicatiou indentilicatiouTills Tills will mean much to the turf when racing is restored as it certainly will lie when the pendulum of tin country swings back to normal Tliere is scarcely a horseman in this section who does not believe that the future holds a brilliant era of rac ¬ ing but they are all agreed that the reestablish ¬ ment will not be speedily accomplished and tliere art few very few who feel that they can afford the expense of maintaining their establishments as at present constituted until that happier day arrives Throe to live years of depression is what they are figuring on and they are getting in shape for it with a view to retaining only the very best for a foundation from which to work upward again againIf If Governor Hughes is not to have a second term Jn New York then the calculations of the majority of the breeders here may be altered for witli his defeat tliere would seem to be a good chance for favorable legislation two years earlier than other wlse
