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ZIEGLER ON BARLEYTHORPE SALE. Cincinnati, O., August 10. Concerning the sale of Barleythorpe to James E. Galtney of New York, Henry M. Ziegler says: "My trainer, Charlie Hughes, and myself knew we had a good colt last year when Barleythorpe showed an eighth m 11 at the Bradley farm. The superintendent of that place offered ,!i00 for him immediately after the trial, but he was such a good-looking youngster that, we thought it best to hold on to him. I was not anxious to sell Barleythorpe. especially as it lias been some time Since Hughes has had a real good one. I left it all to him and would have been satisfied if he had declined the Gaffncy offer. But he wires me lie has accepted it. What the colt brought 1 am not at liberty to state, but it was by far the biggest price paid for a youngster since the passage of the Hart-Agnew bill. 1 own a half-brother to him by Adam Frederica. that is a better looker than Barleythorpe was at his age, and Hughes is anxious to take him in hand, and that is what likely induced him to part with the colt. Barleythorpe was short,whon he went in the Hopeful, and he tired at the end. If the race had been run on Monday it would have been a cakewalk for him. 1 will go east to see him run in the Futurity."
