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LEXINGTON SALE AROUSES INTEREST. Will Be Most Important Thoroughbred Event of the Week in Kentucky Blue Grass Gossip. Lexington, Ky., November 18. The interest of turfmen in this locality will center about the auction of thoroughbreds that is to be held here next Tuesday and Wednesday. The sale is to be the first in Kentucky of the Powers-Hunter Company, which was created by W. L. Powers and Stewart Hunter upon the retirement of the Fasig-Tipton Company froin the thoroughbred sales field last summer. The auction Is to be held in the mammoth barn of the Harbison, Jewell and Patterson Company, adjoining the grounds of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association and known as Tattersalls, and George A. Bain is to be the auctioneer. The catalogue embraces 193 head, of which eighty are mares that have been in the stud or are ready for retirement, eighty-three are yearlings, twenty-three are weanlings, six are stallions and one, Pink and Black, is a gelding just out of training. The stallions are Boanerges, from the Spendthrift Stud; Buck Massie, froin the Pequcst Stud: Codarstrorae, owned by R. AV. Nelson, of Jersey City; Elkhorn, owned by E. L. Davis, of Midway: Filigrane, owned by Fred A. Fbrsythe, of Harrodsburg, and St. Si-monian II., from the Hartland Stud. , There are fifty-three consignors to the sale, but the largest single consignment is that of Messrs. Milton Young, Thomas Piatt and John D. Carr. It embraces fifty-five head twenty-eight broodmares, twenty-live yearlings and two weanlings. The occasion for this big consignment is the second retirement of Colonel Young from the ranks of the breeders. After- he dispersed his McGrathiana Stud in October 190S. Colonel Young gradually got back Into the business through his inability to sit at a sales ring and sec a thoroughbred knocked down to anyone else for less than what he thought it worth. In a little while he had accumulated the stallions Mexican and Leonidas and about sixty mares and as many youngsters and he found himself leasing the Gorham farm on which to keep them. This place was not large enough to accommodate all of them and Messrs. Carr and Piatt took an interest with him in some of the mares!, and kept them at their farms. When Irving IE! Wheatcroft decided to transfer the St. James Stud to Australia last month, he bought the stallions and about thirty mares from Colonel Young and took them with him. After this salo Colonal Youngs thoroughbred holdings will be confined to an interest, in some horses that W. L. Lewis is training. . Among the yearlings that are to be sold arc a brother to the great gelding Roscbcii, a sister to Fireball and a half-brother to BCnsonhnrst, besides others that arc close kin to good winners and it is to ha expected that the average will beniite in keeping with that of the September auction of the Kentucky Sales Company, which was 50 per head for 282 head. It will be a long time before horsemen hereabouts quit talking about the speed that -was displayed by tho yearling son, of Disguise and Quadruplex dam of Sterling Towers and Pettijohn by Order, at the Kentucky Association course last Thursday morning. It is not remembered by any one in this vicinity that any other yearling ever trained here ran a quarter as fast as :22" and then pulled up three-eighths In :"At. There were a dozen or more thor-uoghly reliable men who witnessed the performance j and they, all being expert horsemen, are unanimous in the opinion that, aside from his lleetness of foot, this yearling is quite the best that has been saddled here in many years. He has stamuia and quality in addition to" his speed. A. W. McCracken, a Canadian gentleman who traveled from Brandon. Manitoba, to buy a yearling and selected this one as the superior of all that were shown him on a number of farms, is to be congratulated upon his excellent judgment. T. C. McDowell, who broke and worked Hits colt for Mr. McCracken, has some likely ones of his own breeding, but he says they are not to bo compared with the son of Disguise. Mr. McDowell has put aside fonr that are to winter here and begin their racing careers on the Kentucky tracks next spring. They are the chestnut filly half sister to The Manager by Star Ruby Brace-girdle; the brown filly by Star Ruby .Mirth: the chestnut colt half brother to lima by Yankee Monarka, and tho bay colt half brother to Whim by Yankee Monarda. Each of these have shown quarters in :23s or :23J. The six yearlings that Mr. McDowell will take with him to Havana for winter racing are: Clitstnut colt, by Stalwart, out of the stake-winner Ancient, and her first foal; chestnut colt, by Orlando Bollo of Ashland dam of Premier: brown lilly half-sister to Barns-dale by The Scribe Countess Irma; chestnut colt, by Nasturtium Lucky Locket dam of Lure; chestnut colt, by Cesarion Star Cat dam of Star Jasmine, and bay colt brother to Highbrow by Planudes Tenawah. J. Tandy Hughes has purchased from R. L. Thomas the horses Polls, Twenty-One, Supple, Mexico, Charley Brown, Lady nughes and Clay, and has them at the Kentucky Association track. He will race this winter at Charleston or Havana, most likely the latter place. His brother, Grover Hughes, is going to Charleston with Miss Thorpe and Flo Flo, both of which are now in training "at the farm of his father. J. R. Hughes, on tho Russell Cave road. B. L. Thomas Is out of racing completely as an owner. His time is entirely occupied with the lumber business that was left by his brother, who died last spring. The stallions Sain and Jack Atkin have arrived at E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm from Barnev Schreibers establishment in Missouri. Richard Croker is expected here within the next few days for a visit to Mr. Bradley, who spent several davs at Glencairn while he was in Ireland last summer.
