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HAG GIN HORSES FOR GERMANY. Twenty-Seven Thoroughbred Broodmares and Twenty. Five Sucklings to Go from Elmendorf, Lexington, Ky., August 5. James B. naggin has arranged for a sale of twenty-seven thoroughbred broodmares and twenty-five sucklings from Elmen-dorf Farm, to be held in Germany September S. These mares and foals will be shipped from here on Saturday next in charge of George Miller. They wilt sail from New York August 15 on the steamship Bremen and will be at Hoppegarten. where they are to lie auctioned, within two weeks from the time of sailing. John Mackey, who is now in Ireland, will go to Germany August 1!0 to complete arrangements for the sale. Th" mares sent over by Mr. Haggin last fall brought satisfactory prices, and since those making up this consignment are generally better bred individuals it is expected at Elmendorf that they will fetch a higher average. George .Miller, who was in charge of the flfty-three yearlings that Mr. Haggin sent to England and sold at Newmarket in July, said upon his return to Lexington Thursday morning that Mr. Mackey was well satisfied with the prices realized for the lot as a whole, but he was a bit disappointed that the English buyers did not evidence greater fancy for the get of Africander and Royal Flush III. Mr. Miller reports that Mr. Haggin has two yearlings in the string of Joseph Butters at Newmarket that are to be broken and trained and raced in England. Thcv are the colt by Watercress Florence Breek-enridge and the lllly by Watercress Isiac. He announced reserves upon them and there was no bid over the amounts, so Mr. Mackey ordered trainer Butters to take charge of them. So it is likely that the Haggin colors will be seen upon the English turf next year. Mr. .Mackey remained abroad for a purpose additional to awaiting the arrival of the consignment of thoroughbreds to Germany. Mr. Haggin gave instructions for the importation of about lifty head of draft horses twenty SufTolks and thirty Shires. Mr. Mackey bought seventeen of the SufTolks from Kenneth M. Clark, proprietor of the great Sudbourne Hall Stock Farm, near Oxford, and these three stallions, eight mares and six foals Miller brought back with him this week. Mr. Mackey is how inlying the Shires and will have them ready to ship over after the thoroughbreds are sold in Germany. The high cost of mules for work on Elmendorf Farm caused Mr. Haggin to conceive the idea of importing heavy draft stallions and mares. When lie .announced to the people of Elmendorf that he would bring over some Shires and SufTolks and that in time the mules would be discarded, the veteran financier, miner and breeder was told that those heavy, broad-footed horses would never do here; that they would never bo able to work in the mud. "When I cross them with the thoroughbred." said Mr. .Haggin, "youll see clean-legged, solid, muscular, powerful, agile, substantial animals that will work better than mules in the soil of Kentucky or any other state." .Mr. Haggin brought over several Shires last year and this spring the stallions were mated with thoroughbred mares and the Shire mares were mated with thoroughbred stallions. The lirst crop of foals from this crossing will come next spring and there is much interest among breeders and stockmen hereabouts in the experiment.
