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HAMBURG PLACE STALLIONS FOR AUSTRALIA. New York, September 20. John E. Madden has sold the English sires, Plumules and The Scribe, and they will ore long stand in the establishment of Andrew Robertson in Australia. Botli stallions have been insured and arrangements will be made in a few days for their shipment from Hamburg Place, Lexington, Ky., to the Antipodes. Planudes is a bay horse, foaled in 1S97. He is by St. Simon out of Lonely by Hermit. It was on account of his aristocratic lineage and fine individuality that Mr. Madden placed him In his stud. Lonely, his dam, won six events at two years of age and captured the Oaks, besides being placed iu several other important English races. Of St. Simon it is scarcely necessary to speak. He was the best horse of his day, an unbeaten winner of ten races, and headed the English list of winning sires for nine years. In 1002 he was second to his son, Persimmon, sire of the great Sceptre. In England, Planudes won tin; Molynoux Stakes at Liverpool, Trial Plate at Newmarket, Walton Plate at Epsom, and was placed in other fixtures. In tills country he was a winner at New Orleans and Chicago. As a sire lie produced Waldo, Mee-liek, a winner of three Derbys; Lawton Wiggins, Ragman. Servile, and other good winners. The Scribe, a bay son of Isinglass Memoir, comes from a really fashionable line. Isinglass, winner of the Derby. Two Thousand Guineas, St. Leger, etc.. was the worlds biggest money winning horse, having earned S0,075 ou the English turf. Mfinnlr, dam of The Scribe., won .500. and is a bister to La Fieclie. a 00,000 winner. The Scribe won the Spring Stakes as a two-year-old, and the following season, at Newmarket, defeated good opposition in the Bennington Stakes at one mile.
