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FEW CULLS IN KENTUCKY RECENT SALE PRACTICALLY CLEANED OUT 1 UNDESIRABLE BREEDING STOCK. Prices Realized for Thoroughbreds at Lexington on i Tuesday and Wednesday in Keeping with Quality of Offerings, with Few Exceptions. Lexington. Ivy., November 25. "While the general 1 average of 11.S0 for the 1S2 thoroughbred horses ! sold at the Powers-Hunter Companys sale here on i Tuesday and Wednesday of this week was less tbsiu i half what many of the consignors expected and the s results were consequently discouraging to them, it must not be taken as au indication that "the bottom i lias dropped entirely out of racing in this country," as some who have been accustomed to high prices ! for pretty much anything and everything produced ! on their farms are prone to declare. A thorough and impartial analysis of this latest sale will show that there were exceedingly good reasons for the low average, the principal one of which i was that the offerings, with few exceptions, were ; below the average in every essential for racing and 1 breeding purposes. Whenever a particularly good I looking individual, young or aged, was offered, there i was someone present, though the attendance was not : large, to pay a living price for the animal. In the case of the brother to Roseben, which was : sold to Phil T. Chiuu for ,100; the brother to Ktherial. which went to J. 13. Davis for 725; the i colt by Ort Wells Intrigue half sister to Sweep i and Curiosity, the dam of Novelty, bought by Milton J. Thompson for 10; the Star Shoot Auvergne i colt that was knocked down to Gallaher Brothers for $:li0, and a few other well-bred good-looking ; yearlings, it may be said that bargains were found 1 by those who bought them. . That this is so is illustrated by the fact that within an hour after they had bought, the Star Shoot colt, the Gallaher Brothers sold liiui to Lon i Jones, of Louisville, for 50. a profit of 00. .T. II. Davis, a New York millionaire; thought himself fortunate in getting the brother to Etherial for less I than ,000, and Phil Chinn says that he would not II take a cent less than ,000 for the brother- to Hoseben. "He Is the exact counterpart of that ex- -optional horse they called "the Dig Train," said -Mr. Chiun, "but it is not this fact so much as it is my knowledge of what his other brother, Blair Athol. was that makes mo like him as much as I do. Blair Athol, had he lived, would have been one of the most wonderful horses in the annals of tha American turf. Senator MeCarren paid 1,000 for lilair Athol and counted him a bargain when he laid the money down. I feel the same about this colt." The broodmares that were sold on the opening day of the sale were for the greater part poor in Mesh and so far advanced in age as to be probably nonproductive henceforth, and in consequence there were . only live of them that brought as much as 00 each. The price of provender is such that comparatively lew persons were willing to put their money to any amount into a mare that gave little evidence of being in foal on the mere chance that next spring she might prove not barren. These old mares and the runty, weedy weanlings went for the greater part to dealers like W. P. Scully and S. T. Harbison, the lormer buying twenty-live of the "seediest" ones for , au average of 4.S0. Included in this number were the stallions St. Simonian II., now blind, for ; Buck Massie, now nineteen years old. though once a great race horse and highly bred, having four crosses on Gleucoo through those famous mares Pocahontas and Magnolia, for 0; and Fili-grane, now fifteen years old, for 5. The latter he resold at a small profit to Robert L. Nash, owner of the Mansfield Farm, on which there is a good stud of trotters and where the son of Galore will have a good home for the future. Elkhorn and Cederstrome, the only other stallions sold, go out of the state, the former to the establishment of Dr. Crowley near St. Louis and the latter to the farm of 1. W. Taylor, on St. James Island in British Columbia. Messrs. Milton Young. John D. Carr, Thomas Piatt and .Major Thomas J. Carson held their yearlings out of the September sale where the average was 50. in the chance that the New York Legislature would pass the Gittens bill and they lost by it. The average for the Young-Carr-Piatt consignment of twenty-throe? was 23, and that of Major Carson for nine head was 11. W. G. Hogg, of Wan-en, Wyoming, who bought twelve youngsters out of the sale, does not Intend them for racing purposes. Mr. Hogg is interested in a horse and cattle ranch near Warren and these horses are to go to improve the breed of cow ponies on that much. He was here two years ago with a Mr. Pearson and bought a car load. He says the Tesults were so satisfactory that he concluded to come again, believing that this would be about his last chance to get them cheaply enough to suit his purposes. He was probably right in his conclusions as to his chances for cheap culls in the future. They are apt to be scarce, for there is now practically nothing save the cream of the mares left for the l, stud in this section and they are few as compared to the number on the farms two years ago, or even a year ago. When James B. Haggin gets throush shipping to England, France, Germany and South America and John 13. Madden carries out his pro-josal to send fifty to Australia, the number will be reduced by about 100 more. The horses that were knocked down to Thomas Sayres were all bought for the account of Dr. Crowley and were shipped to St. Louis yesterday. Milton !. Thompson, of Cincinnati, who purchased two good colts, is a former Lexingtonian who, in the days of bookmaking, was ticket writer for Riley Grannan and H. Laudeman. He is well-to-do and has an abiding faith in the future of the turf. Will Perkins will break the colts. The seven that were knocked down to M. A. Silvers, of Valparaiso, Chili, were bought for him by Thomas F. Kelly. Mr. Silvers is now on his way to Kentucky from Chili, where he took a carload of i thoroughbreds that he bought out of the September sale. He Is reported to have made a handsome profit on bis investment. The black colt half-brother to Labold, by Lis-salc Wings, was knocked down to the veteran Green B. Morris for C5 and he had paid for him and was about to pass him out of the sale barn, when he discovered that he was blind in the right eye. No announcement had been made of the defect on behalf of his breeders, Hinde and Baker, and upon Mr. Morris refusal to take him he was put up and L resold. J. P. Bryant, of Louisville, bought him f wr 1911.sh3. "Why, the blindness in the right eye iloesnt make a great deal of difference," he said, unless it should be that he is to race at Belmont Park, where they used to run the reverse way of the track." The yearlings that Mr. Bryant bought were shipped to Louisville and are to be broken at the State Fair Grounds, where there is a half-mile track. The horsemen quartered here who had been count- V ing on a Cuban campaign are now making other plans lor winter racing, in view of the message from II. I. Brown that the chances are slim for ii meeting in Cuba this winter. Most of them will go to Charleston.
