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BIG PRICES FOR YEARLINGS i SIXTEEN CASTLETONBRED YOUNGSTERS SELL FOR 57650 IN AUCTION RING E R Bradley Pays Top Price of 14000 for a Colt Coltby by Rock Sand Fairy Slipper Mr Bradleys BradleysProfitable Profitable Trade with Original Purchaser Lexington Ky September 14 Under the auspices of the Kentucky Sales Company sit Horsemens Headquarters here this morning auctioneer George Rain sold sixteen thoroughbred yearling colts that were bred by James R Keene at Castleton for 57 representing an average of 300 quite the lamest price realized in this country in a number of us But the sixteen head represented the per inilieation of good breeding and they demonstrated Hiat when good looks good condition and good breeding are combined in young horses men will buy them for high values even though their earn ing capacity through racing on this side of the ocean be limited This sale has further demonstrated that Lexington is as good a market as is any other spot in the land ami even better than a majority of the foreign points to which American yearlings have lieon shipped ill recent years That there is no necessity for sending wellbred yearlings to for ¬ eign markets is now quite apparent apparentAfter After the sale E R Bradley owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm to whom four of the colts were knockul ilmvn for an aggregate of 32400 made this state ment concerning the rumor that the auction had iieen conducted in his interest and not for Frank E Idown of New York as advertised advertisedMr Mr Keene after having sold his thirteen fillies to Mr Kobler for 15OIM placed a price of 25000 ii his sixteen colts John W Schorr of Memphis invited me to go in with him and buy the lot I mid him that I bad yearlings of my own breeding that I thought were all I would need and I did not entertain his invitation further Last week a per umss friend of mine who is in business in New York and who has never been identified with racing informed me that he had been discussing the turf and its future with Frank E Brown and that he had decided to buy the Keene colts and let Mr liiuvii train them if I would say that It would lx i good move on his part I told him 1 thought it would be a good investment and would afford him onsiderable diversion and pleasure lie bought the colts He and Mr Brown it seems were agreed that sixteen would IM too many to train and it was decided to sell eight but as I have understood it they could not agree as to which eight to retain My friend then informed me that he regretted that he had bought the yearlings I told him that if be felt that way atanit it I would take them off his hands since I had made it a practice never to advise anyone to do a tiling that I would not do myself Five minutes before that time I had no more idea of buying those sixteen yearlings than I bad of Hying He sold them to me and I in ¬ structed Mr Brown to make arrangements to sell them by auction this morning which he did Now is a result of the transaction I have four good colts and a little cash as pure velvet and several other horsemen have good yearlings that they would other ¬ wise not have been able to secure The transaction was entirely open There was no bybidding and everyone who bought a horse is satisfied that he got value received I am quite certain that 1 did for I feel that I could take the Fairy Slipper colt ihe Handmaid colt and the Cap and Bells colt to England and get 75000 for them but they are nut going to England to be sold They are going I stay right at Idle Hour Farm to be broken and trained until they are ready to race next year They have engagements in the Epsom Derby and the St Leger and they may go over to England when they ire threeyearolds That I do not now know The name of my friend who got cold feet on bis deal is not given for the simple reason that lie prefers l remain in the background and not have his good friends talking to him about his having been a near owner and jollying him about not knowing a good thing when he has it itThe The sale opened at 1030 and within an hour it was over The list of prices and purchasers follows Brown colt by Rock Sand Fairy Slipper SlipperE E R Bradley 14000 14000Chestnut Chestnut colt by Celt Handmaid E It Itllradloy llradloy 11000 11000Chestnut Chestnut colt bv Voter Cap and Bells E ER R Bradley 5SOC 5SOCRav Rav coll by Ben Brush Noonday J D Gray GraySyracuse Syracuse N Y 4000 4000chestnut chestnut colt by Voter Harpsichord James JamesRowe Rowe 3100 3100Chestnut Chestnut colt by llltinms Stepping Stone StoneJ J G Gray 2SOO 2SOOChestnut Chestnut colt by Celt Fairy Sprite John E EMadden Madden 2300 2300Bay Bay or roan colt by Disguise Contentious ContentiousJames James Rowo 2100 2100Chestnut Chestnut colt by Disguise Half Crown CrownQiiincy Qiiincy Stable 1800 1800Chestnut Chestnut colt bv Peter Pan ttoval Rose RoseJames James Rowe 1700 1700Rroyvn Rroyvn colt by Peter Pan Jessant James JamesRowe Rowe 1700 1700Bay Bay colt by Ultimus Midge J G Gray 1700 Phick colt by Peter Pan Belgravia E R RBradley Bradley 1000 1000Rav Rav colt by Ben Brush Early and Often OftenGeorge George Innos 1350 1350Bay Bay colt by Ultinris Dancing Water R F FCarman Carman 1200 1200Chestnut Chestnut colt by Voter Cassandra II K KKnapp Knapp 900 900The The bidding was spirited at all times Tho con ¬ tenders for the Fairy Slipper colt were Charles W M ore owner of the Mere Hill Stud and E R Bradley up to 12000 and when Mr Moore dropped on I Superintendent Ed Kane of August Belmonts Nursery Stud stepped in and quit at S13H0 Mr Bradley got the handsome type of English thor ¬ oughbred on his 100 raise James Rowe who was here as a representative of Harry Payne Whitney was a contender for the Handmaid colt and dropped out at 10900 10900The The three colts knocked down to John G Gray a Syracuse trotting horseman are to be broken here and will be trained by Frank E Brown BrownMaj Maj Foxliall A DaingerlitId represented II K Knapp at the sale and got one John E Madden bid on several but only got one oneTho Tho splendid appearance of all the colts elicited much favorable comment and David M Look the master of Castleton was visibly pleased when a number of gentlemen told him that he had amply sustained the repuation of the great place for good
