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; , SAD HAVOC IN BLUE GRABS REGION. Depletion of Thoroughbred Studs Steadily Goes On Gossip from Lexington. Lexington, Ky., October 28. The announcement that Messrs. Barney Schrelber aud E. R. Bradley have entered into an arrangement whereby the great stallion Sain, sire of Jack Atkln, Nealon and other stars of the turf, Is to come to Kentucky front Mis souri for the season of 1912. was to the breeders of thoroughbreds in this section of the country the mcst important piece of news of the week. This seventeen year-old sou of St. Serf and The Task, by Barcaldine, is to lie kept at Mr. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm near this city, where there Is a band of about thirty select broodmares. According to local computations of the years results. Sain is now fifth in the list of winning stallions. Star Shoot, the premier sire at the Baceland and Buuuymede Studs in Bourbon County, being the leader. Cesarion, now on his way with Irving II. Wheatcrofts horses to Aus tralla. Is second. Hastings, a stud companion with the great Bock Sand at August Belmonts Nursery Stud, is third. Broomstick, in Harry Payne Whit neys Brookdale Stud in New Jersey, is fourth. With all the exportation of thoroughbreds that has been in progress since the passage of repressiouary laws in New York state, the really desirable stallions that will be In service in Kentucky can be counted on the fingers of two hands.. If the plans of Mr. Haggin to transfer the pick of the remnant of his once numerous stud of thoroughbreds from Elmeiidorf Farm to France are carried out, it will mean that the stallions Watercress. Waterboy, Star Buby and Galveston! In addition to forty select mares, will be lost to tills section. John E. Madden says lie is going to send fifty of the Hamburg Place matrons to Australia and Messrs. Catesby Woodford and Phil T. Chiun are making preparations to send some thirty or more mares to the Antipodes. Johnson X. Camden has already disposed of his stallion Mazagan to Andrew Robertson of Melbourne, Australia, and. the sire of Messenger Boy Is now on his way by express to San Francisco, where he is to take ship along with Planudes and The Scribe and twenty-three other thoroughbreds owned by Mr. Robertson aud Dr. M. M. Leach for the land of the kangaroo. Mr. Camdcu has cut down the numlier of mares iu his Hartland Stud. He recently sold several of the least desirable to his nephew, who will breed them to saddle stnilions ip Virginia. It is to be expected that there will be further curtailment of blue grass region breeding studs at the auction sale which is to begin here November 20 uuder the auspices of the Powers-Hunter Com- pany. Mr. Stewart Hunter, a -member of the firm, who was here froni New York lust week, said there would be over three hundred heart iu the sale, and that about one hundred of them would bo yearlings. Such of the yearlings sold at the Kentucky Sales Companys auction iu September as were turned over to local trainers have been brokeu at the Kentucky Association track, though they have not all been tried out. The fastest moves reported to date at this course arc those of the two Planudes colts that John E. Madden recently bought from B. L. Belt, a Xew Yorker who is identified with the American Tobacco Company, and the Voter filly out of Chulita, belonging to Col. Alex. Labold, or Cincinnati. The Planudes colts were broken by "Chuck" Walker and Old Coin, the son of Pockctplece, is credited with a quarter in :2.. Dissension, the son of Dissembler, is reported to have worked in :23. The Voter fillys quarter was in :23. If the weather and track conditions permit, there will be some trials here tomorrow morning. J. O. Keene and others will come over from Latonia to see the youngsters work. Mr. and Mrs. August Belmont, who came to the Nursery Farm on Sunday afternoon last, spent three full days looking over the Belmont breeding establishment and visiting other places in this section, taking their departure for the east Wednesday evening. .Mr. Belmont had little to say of-the Xew York racing situation, but spoke in a hopeful vein. He was highly pleased with the appearance of his horses and with the condition of his farm in general. T. C. McDowells good mare Monarka. the dam of Hum. -was killed by lightning recently while grazing in her paddock at the Ashland Farm. One of the eleven weanlings owned by Mr. McDowell is a brother to lima, being by Hastings out of Monarka, and W. J. Treacy, who a day or two ago took the markings of the youngsters for registration, says he l.i :i grand colt. Mr. Treacys choice of the McDowell weanlings, however, is the bay colt by Beti Brush Bracegirdle. He waxes esthusiastic about this one whenever the subject is mentioned and he calls him a "truly delightful colt." The bay colt by Yankee Lady Anne is a typical Himyar. The chestnut filly by AIlan-a-Dale Miss Gussie, dam of Berwick and I luck, is a racy-looking one and the Watercress Belie of Ashland filly is a beauty. Mr. McDowells other youngsters are: Bay colt, by Nasturtium Allauarka; chestnut colt, by Allan-a-Dalo Lucy Locket; brown colt, by Sain Countess Irma: bay filly, by Royal Flush III Fancywood; hay filly, by Planudes Acushla, and bay colt, by Allan-a-Dale Falmettc. Major Foxlinll A. Dniugerfield, manager of James R. Keones Castleton Stud, is in receipt of a letter from a friend in England who compliments him highly in his perspicacity in reserving Hippodrome, untried as to speed and once condemned to destruction because of an early injury to one of his legs, for the stud. The writer says that Blaruey-stone and Froken, the only two of his get that have ever started, and both winners, are worth- two-year-olds from which greater things than they have yet accomplished may be exeeted. Hippodromes oldest are two-year-olds. He was mated with five mares his first season and sired six two of them being twins that did not go to the race course. Of the oilier four, three Blarneystone and Froken and a lllly were sent "to England. The filly lias never started, but good reports have come here alwut her. The other lllly is now at Sheepshead Bay, in charge of Tom Green, and she is to be sent to England this fall, as she is highly regarded.
