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HAMBURG PLACE STALLIONS FOR AUSTRALIA. New York, September 29. John E. Madden has sold the English sires, Planudcs and The Scribe, and they will cro long stand in the establishment of Audrew Robertson in Australia. Both stallions have been insured and arrangements will be made in a few days for their shipment from Hamburg Place, Lexington, Ky., to the Antipodes. Planudcs 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 in Mjvernl 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 1902 he was second to his son, Persimmon, sire of the great Sceptre. In England, Planudes won the Molyneux Stakes at Liverpool, Trial Plate at Newmarket, Walton Plate at Epsom, and was placed in other fixtures. In tlds country he was a winner at New Orleans and Chicago. As a sire he produced Waldo, Mce-lick, a winner of three Derbys; Lawton Wiggins, Ragman, Servile, and other good winners. The, Scribe, a bay son of Isinglass Memoir, conies 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 on the English turf. Memoir, dam of The Scribe., won .500. and is a sister to La Fleehc. 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.
