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1 AMERICAS LATEST THOROUGHBRED LOSS Lexington, Ky., October 3. The announcement that John E. Madden has sold those two good stallions, Planudes and The Scribe, to Mr. Andrew Robertson to go to Australia can be received with nothing but regret by the thoroughbred horse breeders of the Blue Grass, for never were there two stallions whose future seemed more assured than these. However, what is Americas loss is Australias gain. Repressive legislation has played havoc with Americas highest class racing and breeding, but it is at least of some satisfaction to know that these two really good young sires are. ltouud for a country in which their merits will Imj duly appreciated. Of course, so good a judge as John E. Madden would never have dreamed of parting with these two stallions both of them out of Oaks winners had not the fates decreed that racing, for the time iKjing, at least, was to cease in the State of New York, for the Master of Hamburg Place had implicit faith In these two. and it was only with great reluctance that he at last decided to let them go. Mr. Robertson, however, can congratulate himself upon having been luckv enough to secure two such horses. Mr. Robertson in the purchase of these two stallions, bred as they are, has surely done much for the breeders o the Antipodes. What better pedigree could be asked than that of Planudes Dy St. Simon out of the Oaks winner Lonely. St. Simons name is now, of course, a hqusehold word wherever blooded stock is reared unbeaten on the race course Englauds premier sire for nine seasons, and whose sous and grandsons are achieving marked success in the stud the world over. In Australia the St. Simon blood stands foremost. Malster, by Bill of Portland, son of St. Simon, heads the winning list for the Australian season of 1910-1011, which closed August 1, and then there is Po sitano, three of whose sons, Lord Cardigan, Lord Nolan and Poseidon, have already won the Melbourne Cup, and others such as Soult. Haut Brion, Simmer, St. Frusquins brother, San Francisco, etc.. are doing more than their share to keep the name and fame of the old Welbeck champion prominently before the Australasian sporting public. Lord Cadogans Lonely, besides winning the Oaks, produced the Doncaster Cup winner. Prisoner, and is also the dam of Barley by Barcaldlne dam of Malster, Australias champion sire. Planudes traces in the female line to the same source from which come Sweetmeat and Bachelors Button, whose triumph over Pretty Polly in the Ascot Gold Cup of 1000 caused such -consternation in the turfdom of all Eng- land; and of our own great producer Cinderella, dam of Hastings, Plaudit, etc. Backed by such breeding as this, is it any wonder then that Planudes in the short time that has passed since Edward Corrigau brought him over as a young horse intended for racing purposes in the fall of 1002 has achieved such marked success as a sire. Not many years ago, his son Meelick, as a two-year-old, was considered little behind the unbeaten Colin, and in the following season carried off for his lucky owner no less thaii three Derbys in succession. Right on his heels came Waldo, admittedly the best of his year, and all of those who were fortunate euough to see him smash up the opposition in the Flatbush which included Damnation will not readily forget it. This year Planudes has the good colt Aldebaran. winner recently of the Ilochehtga Handicap, the Grey and other stakes on the Canadian circuit, to run for him. Besides these, such as Ragman, Planutess, Lawton Wiggins, Servile and others will be readily called to mind. In fact Planudes is a stud success, which was certainly demonstrated when two of the get of this sou of St. Simon and Lonely made the highest prices of any of the yearlings sold during the recent four nights sale at the local Tattersalls. The ScrilK! is a son of Isinglass, himself a race horse of renown and a sire of no small repute, out of Memoir, a winner of the Oaks and St. Leger and a full sister to La Fleehe, which also won both of these English classics, besides the One Thousand Guineas and the Cambridgeshire and The Scribe, tracing as he does in the maternal line to Brown Bess, the gran-dam of Musket, embodies a combination of blood second to none in all the world. Incidentally it may be mentioned that La FIcclie is the dam of that equine celebritv. John o Gaunt, sire of Englands champion race horse Swynford. It Is not necessary to go further into the nedigree of The Scribe, for every breeder throughout the world recognizes the value of such blood as Is his. Challenger, a son of Isinglass, is begetting high class winners in Apstralia. and then there is Star Shoot right now at the head of the winning sire list in these United States. The Scribe is a striking horse in individuality and was a good winner in his home land. In addition to these two stallions, Mr. Robertson has already purchased over twenty head of thoroughbreds, most of them the get of The Scribe and Planudes, and it is his, present intention to start on hlrf.long trip with-them to Melbourne the latter part of this week. Horsemen generally wish him bou voyage and good luck.
