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AMERICAN SALES AT BUENOS AYRES. Word comes from Buenos Ayres that twenty head of the thoroughbreds recently shipped from Kentucky to the Argentine Republic bv J. B. Haggin sold for 4o,soo pesos; representing 0,000 gold. The English stallion Hreenan was one of the horses of the Haggin consignment sold. He brought 12.000 pes: s. or aSoul .1910.sh,OtK», which was considerably more than Mr. Haggin paid for him in England some six or seven years back. Greeuan. a son of St. Simon — Sunrise, was not one of Mr. Haggins high-priced importations from Great Britain. Other stallions that Mr. Haggin had previously sold in the Argentine Republic Included Kinley Mack. Herol-stein. First Water. Reliable and Dieudonne. There was a better demand for the horses James R. Keene sept to the Argent ine than for Mr. Hag-ius. The vice chairman of the Jockey Club gM 12::.in* pesos for tittv-six head of yearlings, stallions and broodmares. Tills was an average of * trifle more than ,000 gold. There was a deal of English blood in Mr. Keepes Stock, and English blood is in demand at Buenos Ayres.
