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BALLOT REPORTED SOLD TO GERMANY. The associated press sent out a despatch from New York yesterday to the effect that James R. Keene had sold the famous Voter stallion Ballot, winner of the Suburban Handicap and numerous other Important American stakes, to the German government, and that Ballot will shortly take his place in the Kaisers Imperial Stud, where the famous Ard Patrick, winner of the Epsom Derby of 1902, and Bignou, a French horse contemporaneous with Bayardo, aro already located. The report had it that the price was something over 0,000. At Lexington yesterday Maj. Foxhall A. Dainger-field said that he had no information from Mr. Keene or from his office In New York concerning the re-lKirted sale of Ballot to the German government, lie knows nothing of the matter other than what he read in tlie Associated Press dispatch from New-York. He said, however: "I would not bo surprised if the report is correct."
