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■"•APPRECIATION OF A KENTUCKY BREEDER. Fame of John E. Mai1, den and His Hamburg Place Well-Known Abroad. The mere fact that a single breeder and owner of thoroughbreds made no fewer than 159 entries for this years Futurity Stakes is sufficient to arouse interest in this country. Over here the New Coventry Stakes, one of the chief juvenile events of the coining season, lias received no more than 102 entries all told, while the entries for the Middle Park Plato numbered 114. Compared with these the "Futurity" entry of tin* single nominator bulks largely indeed, but it must not be forgotten that the Futurity is akin to our "Produce" Stakes. i ach breeder nominating his mares. The nominator referred to. it goes almost without saying, is J. K. Maddu-i. the millionaire breeder of Hamburg Place, Lexington, Ky.. who has there over 2H mares, and among others such famous stallions as Ogden. Star Shoot and Plaudit, also a young aspirant to stud laurels in Friar Kock. for which he gave A. Belmont 10.000 sovereigns last year. Mr. Madden is a firm believer in having the best stallions that money can buy. and it is therefore interesting to note that Ogden by Kilwnrlin — Oriole was bred here and exported to the Stales in utero. that Star Shoot by Isinglass — Astrology was bred in Ireland, and tliat Friar Bock, although bred in America, is of purely English lineage, being by Bock Sand Fairy Cold, by Bead Or. Plaudit, a winner of the Kentucky Derby, is by the American stallion llimyar. but his Plaudits dam Cinderella, was an imported English mare, bred by Sir Wm. Throckmorton, and by Blue Buin or Tomahawk the latter for certain — Manna, by Brown Bread. Cinderella, by the way. iu her juvenile days, was ssli at Tattersalls to an American buyer for something like twenty -one guineas km. I she proved a rare bargain, producing not only llaudit, but also Hastings, both gooil nee horses and stallions. A Record Futurity Entry. J. E. Madden for years past has annually entered a number of his most promising yearlings in our Derby and Oaks, and Ogdens son. Sir Martin, would probably have won Minorus Derby in 1909 but for a fall in tin- race. At Hamburg Place he has 2.000 acres of blue grass devoted to thoroughbreds, trot-tors, and cattle, ami his racehorses are mainly trained on Churchill Downs, where he won the Kentucky Derby with Plaudit. Every item in connection with their training comes under his own eye, and he himself looks after the preparation of his horses. of whom some fifty are annually detailed to race on the Eastern tracks in the Futurity and cither big ovents. Mr. Madden will hardly look at a brood mare unless she is well bred and has Iwen tested on the racecourse. He himself in his youthful days was a successful runner and a skillful boxer, and lie has a magnificently fitted gymnasium at Hamburg Place, and although he is well over fifty he keeps himself fitter than most men twenty years his junior. Big though his entry is for this seasons "Futurity" which years ago fell to the share of Ogden. Mr. Madden has keatoa that record in that of 1918, having nominated 191 mares, forty of which were mated with Ogden and thirty-nine with Star Shoot. — London Sportsman.
