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AMERICAN THOROUGHBREDS TOR AUSTRALIA Lexington Ky October 3 During the recent tales Andrew Kobcrtson ot the Allendale Stock Farm Melbourne Australia bought twentyfive thoroughbred yearlings and at the sales to be held during the trotting meeting he exi ects to bur about lifteen light harness horses He is arranging for transportation for tlieni on a boat leaving New York the last of October and It will take about forty days to make the trip to Mellwurne After they are ac ¬ climated they will be sold for racing purposes Mr Robertson has a knowledge of racing in all countries linving traveled much and says that the future for the snort In Australia is greater than in any other part of the world worldDan Dan T Morris has announced his retirement from the turf and says that in future he will devote his attention to the cultivation of a farm owned by Mrs Morris and himself near the town of Waddy In Shelby County Hard luck at the recent meeting liere impelled the decision Thirty days ago I felt certain that I would gather in about a dozen good purses with my three fillies during the fall season in Kentucky he said A couple of days before the meeting opened here Betty Lester picked up a nail end that put her on the shelf The first time I sent Prairie Belle to the post she threw Jockey McTag jrart and ran away three miles Then I entered Fanny Kemble She was bumped into stumbled unseated McTaggart jumped the fence and skinned herself so that she will not be able to race for some time I started Irairie Belle again and she ran dis ¬ appointingly I would have quit right there and then but I had agreed to break a numlwr of year ¬ lings for Harry Kites and others I will be through with them in about sixty days and then it will IKS to the farm for me meCharles Charles H Berryman general manager of James B Hoggins Elmendorf Farm underwent an opera ¬ tion for appendicitis at the Good Samaritan Hospital tnu morning The operation was pronounced suc cefwful
