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SOMETHING OF BROOKDALE FARM. New York. February . 21. The news that Harry Payne Whitney has increased his lease of Brook-dale Farm, in Monmouth County, N. J., to include the entire farm- of S50 acres, instead of the 350 acres that be formerly held under lease, has re-aroused interest in this magnificent property, which first became a nursery for thoroughbreds under the ownership of the late David Durham Withers. Since the days of Mr. Withers, Brookdale Farm has been owned successivly by the late Col. William T. Thompson and Lewis S. Thompson, his son. There is a line mansion on the place which Lewis S. Thompson has occupied as a permanent residence for twelve years. Many famous horses came from Brookdale ifi the time of Mr. Withers, and the Futiiritv winners, Requital 1S05. LAiouette 1S07 and Chacornae 1800, were bred there under the regime of the Thompsons. Brookdale yields to Castleton alone in the production of winners of the Coney Island Jockey Clubs great produce race for two-year-olds. Witli Colin. Maskette, Sweep and Novelty to its credit. Castleton leads Brookdale by one Futurity winner. Requital won the Futurity of 1S05 for Gideon and Daly, but LAiouette carried the colors of Lewis Thompson and his brother William when she won in ISO", and she was trained by James Rowe, the man who is to take charge of Mr. Whitneys horses at Brookdale, it is said. In 1808, the year after LAlouottes victory, the Thompsons decided .to give up racing. They sold their horses accordingly, and Mr. Rowe purchased Chacornae, a yearling son of Juvenal and Latoelia, of which he had a high opinion. Mr. Rowe did not hurry Chacarnoc to the races in 1S90, but when he sprang the Juvenal colt at Saratoga, Chacornae won from a likely field with such ease that James R. Keene was moved to offer 0,000 for the colt to the end that he might have a first-rate representative in the Futurity. Mr. Rowes plans since James R. Keene shipped the best of his horses abroad last fall have been the subject of much newspaper conjecture. It has been said that he was going to France to train for Herman B. Duryea, also that he was going to England to handle Mr. Keencs string. On the subject Mr. Rowe has maintained a characteristic silence. Mr. Rowe has always been fond of Brookdale. After the Thompsons gave up racing he persuaded Mr. Keene to lease part of the place and winter his horses there. Sysouby. Tommy Atkins, Olympian, Delhi and many other first-rate racers in the Keene colors on metropolitan tracks in recent years were broken and trained at Brookdale. The late John W. Rogers adopted Brookdale as a training place after Mr. Keene moved out and Mr. Whitney moved in. Burgomaster, Artful, Perseus, Dreamer, Royal Tourist, Borrow and Whisk Broom were trained there. Borrow and Whisk Broom were bred at Brookdale. The Whitney stud at Brookdale is one of the strongest in the country. Its great stallions are Hamburg, Burgomaster. Sandringhani, Broomstick, Ballyhoo Bey and Prince Hamburg. Among the mares are such celebrated racers and matrons as Eugenia Burch, Ficsole, Martha II. dam of Artful, Forget dam of Dreamer, Borrow and Hylas, Jinks, Lady Frivoles. Sandrian, Tanya, Blue Girl. Hand-spun dam of Tanya and Tangle. Hurly Burly dam of Burgomaster and Jersey Lightning.
