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GREAT SALE OF NOTED BROOD MARES Seventy-Eight Matrons of the Famous Hamburg Place Stud at Auction Thursday, January 22. The sale of brood mate- sot to take place al Hamburg Plac i Thursday of next week is epochal. There have been big di-persal sales in this country before, but not on the lines of this one. Here are seventy-eight of the proved best brood mares in America, selected with great care by one of the most sagacious and successful breeders of modern days. Neatly all probably in foal to such sires as Star Shoot. Ormondale. Jim Gaffney. C.eorge Smith. Hessian. The Finn. Pataud. Sir John Johnson. Theo. did;. Dick Finnell. Plaudit and Ogden. and all to pass under the auctioneers hammer to the highest bidder. When James R. Haggin decided to retire from breeding, he scattered his great collection of stallions and brood mares to the four corners of the earth, but Mai B. Madden has taken the more patriotic course of retaining his splendid band of brood mares in our own breeding by offering its members for sale to other American breeders. No doubt they will jump at the chance to secure such jewels of the thoroughbred world. Of course, swam of racing stables will not overlook the fact that thirty-five yearlings are to be sold, but interest will center in the unexampled sale of brood mares in the prime of their fertility and usefulness. Mr. Maddens advertisement of the last page of this issue of Daily Racing Form gives particulars that all interested should scan with exceeding care, s
