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JOHN MADDEN GOING IN FOR FARMING. Lexington, Ky., August 3. John E. Madden, owner of Hamburg Place, will in future devote moro of his time and attention to breeding trotters and thoroughbreds and to farming bis 2.000 acres of blue grass land than to racing. Today he began the delivery of 5,000 bushels of blue grass seed stripped from the pastures of Hamburg Place and sold for the fancy price of .05 per bushel. Mr. Madden believes that witli the same careful attention that must be given to racing, his breeding and farming interests will prove quite as profitable. Air. .Madden today sold to Robert Davies of Toronto two yearlings by Ogden for ,500, a chestnut colt out of Star of the West, by Montana, dam Isis. the second dam of Hamburg Belle, aud a bay filly out of Linda Lee, by Hamburg, out of Myrtle Harkuess. The colt is eligible to the Epsom Derby and the filly to the Epsom Oaks. The price paid for the colt was ,000. Mr. Madden has disposed of all the horses he hnd in training at Gravesend and Saratoga, with the exception of seven, among which is Peacemaker, the two-year-old chestnut colt by Meddler out of Bonnie Blue II.. the dam of Blues and Blue Girl. This colt, shortly will be shipped to .Too Cannon at Newmarket. England, where he hits extensive three-year-old engagements. Mr. Madden is busy breaking twenty-five yearlings at Hamburg Place. Heretofore it has been the custom to sell his yearliugs untried, but Mr. Madden intends this fall to show them at speed on the local track and to sell them on the strength of their performances. George Mellar. who took to England the fifty-three thoroughbred yearlings sold in July by James B. Haggin, returned to Elmendorf Farm today with sixteen Suffolk draft horses purchased in England, all chestnuts in color. The stallions and inures, thpre being three of the former and eight of the latter, average in weight about 2,000 pounds. Five of the mares have foals at foot.
