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IIAGGIN STILL CURTAILING SHIPMENT OF 25 YOUNG ELMENDORF MARES TO BE MADE TO GERMANY-SOON Only Sixty of the 153 Marcs Left on Famous Blue Grass Farm Devastated by Reprcssionary Legislation to Be Mated This Season. Lexington, Ky., March 25. The curtailment of James B. Haggins Elmendorf Stud of thoroughbred horses has been rapid and certain aud the process of abrcviation is to be carried further. When Governor Hughes succeeded in having the Hhrt-Agnew bills passed at a special session of the New York Legislature in June 190S. Mr. Haggiu had on his magnificent farm near this city more than 1,000 thoroughbreds, possibly 1,200. There were thirty-two stallions aud 475 broodmares and the others were numbered in the foals of that year, the yearlings and the two-year-olds and three-year-olds. Mr. Haggins perspicacity brought him quickly to a realization of the havoc that would be wrought to the horse breeding industry by the enactment of those reprcssionary laws and he at once laid plans for the systematic dispersal of the stud. Exporta-tions to England. France, Germany and the Argentine Republic were made at iutcrvals and the horses were sold by public auction in those countries. John Mackcy, the veteran turfman who has been identified with the Haggiu racing and breeding interests since and before the first thoroughbred set hoof on tho great Rancho del Paso, now a sugar beet farm, near Sacramento, California, was here last week and made a count of the thoroughbreds at Elmendorf. There are, including the foals of this year, 225 head 153 broodmares, fifty-three yearlings, twelve stallions and the remainder foals. Of the broodmares, twenty-eight are at or above the aye of eighteen and they are virtually pensioners upon tho farm. They are not to be bred again and. under Mr. Haggins orders, they are to be well cared for until they die from natural cause?. Twenty-live of the younger inares have been selected lor exportation, to. Germany,, where. they are to go Under the hammer at Hoppegarten. The date for shipment has not been fixed, but it will be during the summer. Forty mares have been selected for mating with the four splendid Shire stallions that were imported from England last fall. It is Mr. Haggins expectation that the animals thus produced will make serviceable general purpose horses. The remaining sixty mares arc to be mated with the thoroughbred stallions at the farm, among which are AVatcrcrcss. Star Ruby. Waterboy, Toddington. Roval Flush III.. Goldfinch and Gerolstcin, with the" exception of Traditiou, which . is to go to the court of August Belmonts Rock Sand. It has been decided to send thirty-five of tho yearlings to England early in June to be sold at tho July sales. The others will be disposed of in this country, possibly here at Lexington in September. Some of the acres over which the thoroughbreds formerly roamed have been given over to dairy cows that have been imported in large numbers during the past two years: some are devoted to fauey sheep and some to swine and the remainder have been put in cultivation, approximately 300 acres being given over to tobacco. The dairy is just now Mr. Haggins hobby. He has tho largest, the most costly and altogether the handsomest plant in the state. His cows, all imported, number approximately 1,000 and ho owns a number of extra fine bulls. A recently established department of the farm is that for the breeding of AVelsh and Shetland ponies. The stallions and mares are all imported and there are among them some choice individuals. None of these things, however, arc calculated to bring Mr. Haggin the returns, either in dollars or pleasure, that he derived from his thoroughbred racers.
