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HESSIAN DEAD AT HAMBURG PLACE LEXINGTON. Ky.. March tf tlliesiea. the MVcutoeu-yo;u old bay StaiUOS by Wetei : M Colonial, by Trenton, is dead it Jeba R. Ma, liens Hamburg Place and thereby hangs :i tale. Hessian. races in oed company, at two and three years old mou sj races and ever sio.ooo. was retired le the Mud at James P.. Hnggins Clmendorf Farm and when tea years old w;.s sold at the Haggis estate essperaal to John E. Msdrtrs far SS.560. Madden kept him for fire years, selling him in December, l!t_0. at the Kentucky Sales Company- auction hero to the Called states Reseeeal Service for 00 Among the yeailiugs not twe .•e.ii- old scut last fall te Charchill Downs from Bamberg Place to be ti. -lined were three or four by meSSBBa. Ami rumor has it that the better one o. the entile Madden string ,s .-, son of this discarded sire. Whether that parti -:;lar colt is the Madden ace of not has ,iot been divulged by the astute ouster of Hamburg Place, but be mit-t think exceedingly well of him. otherwise be would not have sou:-at to bring Hessian back te Hamburg Place as be did. Maihlfi eatered iato en arraagesseat with the Retnoiint Bet* ice to exchange a younger tberoogh-bied stallion for Hessian ami had the SOS Of Water cress sent back from Ohio, where be bad bees placed for the season. Hessian had Ml led seven males at Hamburg Place when be isall ■etcd an intestinal trouble and died yesterday morning. Hessian was the sire of Beets, Qeaeral .1. If. Gomes, Grsysstss, His Choice. Azurita and a number of others. Roots was by far the best ,f his get. "I made a mistake in discarding Hesaiaa." s:ti,i Madden, "but then i did not understand how to iu ;te him until after I had lei him go. Thee, of enui-e. I set abet I to gl t. him back, bin I was able to have earj seren mares vi-it him before his death."
