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THE MORRISES TO GIVE UP BREEDING. Baltimore. Md., October 11. The sale of all the Ihoroughbreds owned by the Barbarity Stable has been announced. This means not alone the horses in training, but the mares and the stallions that are quartered at the AValden Farm, at MIddlebnrg, Md. The announcement will bring regret from the entire turf world, for it means the end of one of the oldest stables of America. More than fifty years ago Francis Morris raced here in Maryland a number of the best horses of the day, and he was one of the first American turfmen to make an English invasion. Later on one of his sons. John A. Morris, took up the stable and made of it, under the care of the late AVyndham AValden, one of the powerful racing aggregations of the country. To name the great horses that carried the "all scarlet" would mean repealing pages of turf history. Brittanie, Russell, The Friar, Ambulance, Rowling Brook. Reckon and Correction were some of the illustrious members of the stable. During the last four or five years the present owners of the stable. A. II. and D. H. Morris, have not been able to keep up an active interest in turf affairs and for this reason they have decided to retire. The hordes will be sold at public auction before the end of the Pimlieo mooting.
