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BALLOT SOLD AND TO BE A PUBLIC STALLION. Lexington, Ky., November 3. Hal Price Headley todav concluded the purchase of twenty-seven weanlings by Star Shoot from John E. Madden. This represents one of the biggest deals in Kentucky bloodstock in recent years and gives Mr. Headley forty-eight weanlings. In January of 1915 Mr. Madden sold his entire crop of Star Shoot fillies to Gifford A. Cochran. Last spring he sold his crop of Star Shoot colt foals of 1915, twenty of them, to James Butler and they are now In training in the east. He has consigned his entire crop of seventeen Sir John Johnson weanlings to the Kentucky Sales Companys auction. Charles H. Berryman, manager of Elmendorf Farm, it was announced today, has purchased Ballot from the James B. Haggin estate and will offer his services to the public during the coming season. The price was not made public. Ballot is a twelve-year-old son of Voter Cerlto, was a great race horse and is showing up remarkably well as a sire. On October 28, 1915, lie was put up at auction at the Elmendorf dispersal sale and knocked down to T. C. McDowell, -who was bidding for Mr. Berryman, for 5,600, but the administrators of the Haggin estate did not consider the sum sufficient by half for the horse, and Mr. Berryman called it no sale.
