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END OF VANDERBILT STABLE Will of Lae Sportsman Directs Sale of All His Horses and Breeding Stud in France. NEW YORK, N. Y., August 28. Under the will of the late W. K. Vanderbilt, it is directed that his executors sell "as soon as convenient and possible" all his race horses and racing equipment wherever found in France, together with his property known as La Chauniere, at Deauville, France, and his. estate at Poissy in Seine-et-Oise, and .turn the proceeds over to the residuary estate. It will be a great disappointment to followers of the turf, who have been wn telling the famous black and white colors of the Vanderbilt stable on the French race courses for years, to find that his colors are to disappear from racing after his death. A recent dispatch from France quoted Mrs. Vanderbilt as announcing to William Duke, trainer of the Vanderbilt horses, on the day she sailed for this country with her husbands body, that she would continue, the racing stable and retain the Vanderbilt colors, black and white. Mr. Vanderbilt had for years campaigned one of the best stables of horses on the French turf and had met with great success under the training of William Duke and riding of jockey Frank ONeill. In addition to forty horses in training, he had u ,000,000 establishment at Ioissy, where three stallions and fifty brood mares are in the stud. It was in 1901 that the name of Mr. Aranderbilt first appeared in the French list of winning owners, with a respectable sum of money placed to bis credit by .his horses. That year his stable earnings were 130,358 francs, or 7,271.10. In 1002 they were 25.09li francs; in 1903, 270,338 francs; in 1901. 280,249 francs. By this time his stable was well organized and its record in annual earnings for the next ten years was: Year. Ios. Leading Owner. Stable Earnings. 1905. Cth. Edmond Blanc 428,278 francs 1900. 1st. W. K. Vanderbilt 1.220.900 francs 1007. Htli. M. Caillault 328.035 francs 1908. 1st, W. K. Vanderbilt . 1,314,077 francs 1909. 1st. W. K. Vanderbilt 1.153.194 francs 1910. 1st. W. K. Vanderbilt 1,018.802 francs 1911. 1st. W. K. Vanderbilt 079,025 francs 1912. 5th. Baron Gourgaud 409,385 francs 1913. 14th. Edmond Blanc 212,725 francs 1914. 3rd. Baron Maurice de Rothschild 4SS.250 francs Total for ten years 7,200,271 francs Thus it is seen that in its ten years of greatest glory the Vanderbilt stable won ,452,051, or the remarkable average for the ten years of more than 43,000 per annum, a record difficult to . mutch. t
