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Wootton. vvooiioii. S FI7 !• • »" ■• •" *"•» ■■- HAGGIN TO RACE IN ARGENTI1TE. Shipment of Thoroughbreds to Buenss Ayres from Elmendorf Delayed for Short Time. Ixinglon. Kv.. June 2... The shi|Huent of James B. Haggius thoioughbreil yearlings from Klineudorf Farm to the Argenline Republic, which was to have I n made today, lias been postponed. At the farm the reason stated is an inability to get cars here for Iransaortathm lo New York. II is said that the shipment will be made some time during the coming Week. lu addition to the vearlings. about 125 in number, it is now said that live stallions belonging to Mr. Hoggin and half a deajeu mares, the property of John Maekev. will go from Klniendorf. and that at New York all of the horses that Mr. Hagglu has ilk training will Is- added to the consignment. It is said to Ih- the intention of Mr. Haggln to maintain a racing establishment at Buenos A. res. with Matt Bvnns as the trainer. Mr. Byrnes and his wife are now on the way to the Argentine Republic, if not already there. A driving horse and a ...uple of i-ows an- to be sent along with the yearlings for Mr. Bvrnes use. The stallions to go are Oreenan. Africander. Sir TiulllkmlllB The Slave and ol ther. Africander, it is said is to be put In training again, and is to Ih- raced at Buenos Ayres. He is as sound as a dollar; and the BejaanVt at Klniendorf sav that in- will prove himself by Tar the best aged racer in South America. Whether Mr. llaggin intends to sell all of the vearlings when In- gets them to South America or whether be will reserve a few of I hem for racing in his own i-olors is not known at Klniendorf. bill Ihe presumption seems to 1m- that he will send them all under the hammer. Tin- men in charge say that Ibis is the liost crop of youngsters all around that the llaggin mares have produced in a number of There are now about MB mares and ninety foals of this year at Klmemlorf. All of the mares, how ever, wen- iio| bred this spring. A number of them wen- reserved to be bred this coining fall with the e|i.-i talioii that tln-v will drop their foals next summer, and these foals will all go to Ihe South Vni.tiran market. The American horses now racing in South Vineriia have the worst of it in the matter of weight to Ih- carried localise of Ihe fact that ages in that counlrv are computed from the first dr. of August of the year in which tln-y are foaled in slwad of the first day of January, as in this country, Knglaml. France. Oermany. Russia and Australia.
