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SARATOGA COMING SALES ATTRACTIVE American Breeders Will Offer Their Best Yearlings Dates for the Offerings SARATOGA SPRIXGS X Y July 15 Upward of 750000 worth of thoroughbred yearlings and brood marcs were sold under the hammer at Sara ¬ toga Springs last August in the course of tlio race meeting conducted by the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses and that substantial total will be passed in the sales pf next month Last year Saratoga had nearly all tlie sales business of the East and most of that of tlie entire country This year the entire sales business of the East has lieen concentrated by E J Tranter in the hands of the FaslgTipton Company of Xew York of which Mr Tranter is the president and general manager and it is the purpose of the Fasig Tipton directors to bring it all to Saratoga SaratogaThe The concentration of tlie thoroughbred yearling sales business here has invested the most pic ¬ turesque racing place on the Xorth American con ¬ tinent with i new attractiveness to men and women of various parts of the United States Canada and Cuba interested in thoroughbred production Last year it filled the great hotels with hundreds and thousands of men and women to whom racing alone has held only t detached interest It has made Saratoga in fact the Xewmarket of America a distinction no other American racing center has ever had hadMr Mr Tranter is of the opinion that the yearlings that will be offered here this year will fetch quite Sl000000 if not more and that the unusually heavy individual prices realized last summer when a man was considered a piker if he stopped at a bid of 10000 when 12000 to 15000 yearlings were common and some fetched 22500 24500 and 25000 will be topped There has not in twenty five years been the heavy demand for thoroughbred stock there is this season A plater that could with safety be risked for 1000 to 1500 last sea ¬ son and the season before is grabbed today at 3000 A developed horse of class is practically unpiirehasable Persons desiring racing material must necessarily look to the yearling market and take the gamble incident to tlie development of new and raw stuff stuffSALES SALES ATTHACT SOCIAL SET SETThe The sales which are held in the commodious new establishment of the FasigTipton Compuay have assumed the character of social functions They are held afternoons and evenings and parties of men and women attend as they do dances teas and dinner parties at the lake always in evening dress when they are held under the glare of electric lights lightsThe The sale of August 4 will be made up of con ¬ signment from tlie establishments of Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield Charles H Uerryman W W Darden T J and G H Clay C E Clement Emil Herz Mrs Wilfrid Viaiu and D W Scott Beaumont Farm AY B Miller and Huntingdon Valley Farm will sell August 5 Arthur B Hancock Capt Philip M Walker Admiral Cary Grayson and Charlton Clay August C Mr Kilmer and J S Barbee August 9 the Belair Stud former U S Senator Johnson X Camden John H Morris Ken ¬ neth Alexander Sanford C Lyne and C W Par rish August 10 various breeders of Hopkinsviile Lucas and Broadhead Combs Gifford A Cochran iid W C Goodloe August 11 and Henry T Oxnard August 13 13The The thriving breeding industries of the states of Kentucky Tennessee Virginia Maryland Penn ¬ sylvania and Xew Jersey as well as that of Xew York will be contributors to these sales Ellerslie whose yearling consignment to last summers sales fetched upward of 110000 is one of Virginias leading nurseries The Oxnard and Walker estab ¬ lishments also are in Virginia Huntingdon Val ¬ ley tarm is a new Pennsylvania establishment Belair is AVilltam Woodwards thriving stud in Prince George County Maryland which Is repre ¬ sented in racing this season by the brilliant sprinter Lion dOr and tlie smart twoyearold Nancy Lee
