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KENTUCKY THOROUGHBREDS GROW SCARCE. Lexington, Ky., November 21. Thoroughbreds in this section of the country are growing fewer with the passing of each succeeding day. and after the coming week It is hardly to be expected that there will be any on the lirarket hereabouts, unless J. B. Haggm should suddenly make up his iniiiil to hold a December or January sale of the Elmemlorf Stud. The Haggin and John E. Madden establishments will be the only large ones left. Mr. Madden has no present intention of selling off any of the stallions, mares, yearlings -and weanlings ;it Hamburg Place. -Manager Bcrryinan has been quietly getting rid of the cheaper tilings at Elmeiidorf to the traders who have been flocking here from the south and west ever since the passage of the Hiirt-Agnew anti-belting bills in New York. These traders, together with the men who have been buying mares suitable for mating with, saddle stallions, and the buyers of gehlipgs and fillies for officers mounts and hunting purposes abroad, have pretty well stripped the country of the sort of horses that could be bought for Horn 5 to 50. Anything that is sold after the sale of the coming week wiil bring prices above the latter figure.
