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WILL TAKE SONS PRICE FOR HIS SIRE. When asked last week to put a price on Hessian son of Watercress and Colonial by Trenton sire of Boots and other good horses, John E. Madden replied: "I will sell Hessian for the same price that was reported to have been paid for his soir Boots, namely 5,000. Mr. Madden secured Hessian for the nominal sum of ,500 at the dispersal sale of James B. Hag-gins Elmendorf Stud last October, and in commenting on his sagacity as a buyer, W. II. Rowe, Registrar of the Jockey Club, said at the time: "John E. Madden did a shrewd thing from a breeders viewpoint in buying Hessian. Mr. Madden has a number of Star Shoot mares which ought to nick particularly well with Hessian, as in the comparitively near past both Star Shoot and Hessian run into the same family, and an excellent one at that."
