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KENTUCKY BREEDERS ARE DISCOURAGED. Lexington, Ky., September 30. Following the publication this morning of dispatches to the effect that Senator Gittins had abandoned hope for the passage of his bill for the relief of the New York race track directors, several breeders who last week disposed of their yearlings at the Kentucky Sales Companys auction, called upon President Harbison and Secretary Walker and arranged to sell a number of thoroughbred stallions, mares and weanlings at auction during the week of November 13 to 18, immediately following the close of the meeting at Latonla. Andrew Robinson and Dr. M. M. Leach are making preparations to leave here next Saturday with the twenty-live or thirty head of thoroughbreds, including the stallions Planudes and The Scribe, they will take to Australia. Dr. .Leachs string numbers six. The others wore purchased by Mr. Robinson tor the Allendale Farm, which is located near Melbourne, and of which he is part owner. Before leaving for Laurel, Md.. this week. T. C. McDowell sold the good two-year-old filly, Highbrow, to Mr. Robinson. John E. Madden today rented a twenty-four-stall barn at the Kentucky Associations track. It is understood that he intends sending in fifteen or twenty yearlings from Hamburg Place to be broken.
