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WHEATCROFT SHIPMENT A RECORD BREAKER. Lexington, Ky., October . 13. Trving II. Wheat-erorts shipment of 159 thoroughbred stallions, broodmares, yearlings, weanlings and horses in trainintr, will leave Vancouver, B. C, October 28 on the steamship Kirk and will reach Sydney. Australia, about November 25. It is Mr. Wheatcrofts present plan to enter the whole consignment in the regular fall sales of thoroughbreds annually held at Sydney ii: February and March. Tho shipment is undonbt edly the largest and most valuable of the sort ever made to such a distance. In view of the unreasonable attacks of which tho American turf hate leen the victim of late. Mr. AVheatcroft can hardly be blamed for shipping his horses to another part of thoworld. He is an Eng lishman, a citizen of the British Empire, who makes a trip to his home in England nearly every year, and in shipping his horses to Australia he is sendinir them to a country that is under the jurisdiction of his own Hag. and constitutes a part of the groat British Empire. Mr. AAheatcroft has many business interests scattered throughout the United States and Canada owning a short railroad and several coal mines in Western Kentucky, several banks iu Oklahoma, a fine estate in British Columbia, aud other properties scattered throughout the United States. During the past few years he has built, equipped and H-rated several railroads, and sold them out, at a handsome profit, to the larger railroad systems. Mr. AVheatcroft owns his own private railway car and travels extensively, accompanied most of the time by his wife and son, and by his private secretarr. E. C. Ruff, who has been with Mr. AAheatcroft foe nearly seventeen years.
