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SMALL TALK FROM THE BLUE GRASS. Lexington, Ky., October 24. James B. Haggin has been at Klinendorf Farm for nearly a fortnight, but he has not yet reached a definite conclusion concerning the disposal of his vast collection of thoroughbreds that be announced some time ago he would Bell before the tidvent of another breeding season. The probabilities are that be will put a big consignment in the Dec-ember sale of the Fasig-Tipton Company, but it is not expected that he will make up bis mind as to this fully until after the election. Rumor has it that W. K. Vanderbilt will probably get the contract held by .Toe S. Hawkins on the services of .io"key .limmy Butler, and the local lad -will ride hi France next season. Butlers parents reside in this city and his father said a day or two si go that be expected a deal which would take the lad abroad next season would be closed between now and tbe first of November. Trainer Charles Hughes is looking forward to an active winter in Nuw Orleans, provided, of course, that tbe plans for racing there do not miscarry. He expects to ship the gray horse. Miramar. and oight coining two-year-olds, the property of Henry M. JJiesler. to the Crescent City about December 15. The yearlings had their try-out over the track at E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm Tuesday, and the trainer and owner were well pleased with them. AY. .T. Young is optimistic as to the future. He fiays he has had a good year, notwithstanding the many obstacles in the way of racing: believes that the sport is bound to come into its own, and predicts that a new era for racing will begin to dawn in 1900. "I bave nineteen borses at the local track and will buy some more if I happen to run across any that suit my fancy. said he. "I went through ;i period of depression with the trotters fifteen years ago, and saw horses sell cheaper than they are sell-8ng today. Everybody Avas then crying that the bottom was out of the business, but it came again, didnt It? So it will he this time and every other time, for in this country in the years that are to come we are going to have more of these spells of fanaticism and depression. I made 0,000 out of racing this year and I am ready to invest that on the chance of doubling it next year, and I do not figure that I am taking a big risk, either." "All of this talk about the liability of racing in California suffering from the passage of adverse laws during the coining winter is idle." said Phil T. China a night or two ago. "The people who are at. the head of racing affairs on tbe Pacific Coast are live wires and from, what I know of their movements 1 can assure, you that any such attempt as was successful in New York will never get to the voting shige." If those youngsters Colonel AV. E. Applegate shipped out to California tills week run up to their trials his colors will he frequently in evidence at the Oakland pay station after January 1. The filly by Jim Gore -Eleanor dam of that good race horse. Moufort is particularly promising. She has size, conformation and speed. The best youngster in the lot, the colt by Cesarion Lateen, was not included in tbe shipment. He was left here in charge of AY.. J. Young and will not be raced until late next season. The market for thoroughbred mares cheap enough to breed to saddle stallions and jacks is still strong, but the supply is growing short rapidly-. Traders and shippers in quest of animals of anv age and sex at prices ranging from 5 to 25 are still active in this section, but they are not tting many these days. R. L. Baker, who has been in the trade since th passage or the Hart-Agnew bills in New York, says that over 1.200 thoroughbreds bave been sold out of this section already and that the majority of them have gone without pedigree and will never again be heard of for racing or breeding purposes.
