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1 i • : 1 i I THE BREEDER OF HAMBURG. Lexlagtoa. Ky., September 17. — Light i- thrown 1 on the ni ii argued question of who bred the fa- moils race horse, Hamburg, which died recently, by ol. Milton Young, former owner of MeUrathiana Stock Farm aul vice-chairman of the Kentucky Racing Commission. Colonel Young stated that he sold I.ady Keel, dam of Hamburg, to M. Kitson. a young -on of Commodore Kitson, "f New York, who then had a slock farm in this country. Kitson hied her to Hanover, owned bv Colonel Young, and -old the mare in foal to C. J. Enright. then proprietor of Klineiiilorf stick Iarui. There the colt was foaled and sold by Rarighl when a yearling to the late . Cus Straus of this city, for 00. Straus soon tamed him over to John B. Madden for S1.200. Bn-rignt later -..Id Lady Reel to Capt. Sam Brown, of Christmuaburg, but the latter never owned Ham burg, in accordance with the eastern of eoaskleriag the hreeihv of a thoroughbred burs,, to be the owner of the dam at lac time she was bred, young Kitson wai therefore the breeder of Hamburg.
