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GREAT DISPERSAL SALE RIGHT AT HAND. Lexington. Ky., October 24. The event of the coming week in the local horse world will lie tbe dispersal sale of Colonel Milton Youngs entire Mc-Grathiana Stud. The sale will be held at McGrathi-ana Farm on Newtown road, about four miles from this city and will occupy three days, beginning next Tuesday. Including the eight stallions. Cesarion. AVoolsthorpe. Sempronins, Yorkshire Lad. Sorcerer. Monsieur de LOrme. Lackford and Cameron, 4S1 thoroughbreds, mares and weanlings, bave been catalogued. The sale will be conducted by the Fasig-Tipton Company and AVilliam Kaston will be the auctioneer. The selling will be in a large tent, providing the weather is not propitious for out-of-door transactions and will begin each morning about 10 oclock and continue until four in the afternoon. Colonel Young has arranged to feed the throng that is expected to attend the sale. He has given an order to Dudley Lawrence, a local man who makes a specialty -of conducting barbecues, to prepare meats and burgoo sufficient to feed 1.500 people daily for tbe three days. The beef and mutton will be roasted in great trenches on the farm and the burgoo will be made in huge kettles. AVhen the last of these animals shall bave passed under the hammer, the career of Colonel Young as a breeder of thoroughbreds in Kentucky will be at an end. no will give possession of the farm to Messrs. Beasley Bros, of Lancaster. November i. and on that date be will remove with bis family to a residence in this city. As soon as a final settlement of all bis alTairs is made he will tender his resignation as a member of the State Racing Commission to Governor AVillson and will set out on his journey to Buenos Ayres with the idea of locating .permanently and starting anew as a breeder of thoroughbreds in the Argentine Republic.
