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Here and There on the Turf Mr Madden to Curtail His HisOperations Operations OperationsSale Sale of The Finn Important Southern Gentleman and Sun Turret To many it will be hard to believe that John E Madden really means to retire or even curtail his operations as a breeder A man who has been for so long a time selling as well as breeding the best ones And a man who has made such a tremendous success in his operations seems to have no good reason to even in part retire But Mr Madden seems to mean it He is determined to reduce his stock of matrons to about thirtyfive it is said and it is his intention in the future to confine his breeding operations to the produc ¬ tion of those he will racs himself himselfMany Many a Maddenbred horse has from time to time electrified the turf with brilliant per ¬ formances but how many of them have done so under the Madden silks silksNo No breeder has sold better horses and he has gone on year after year on the theory that it is better to sell and regret than keep and regret regretThe The full measure of success that has at ¬ tended the breeding and selling by the master of Hamburg Place would suggest that when he breeds to race rather than breed to sell his silks will rapidly take a front position on the American turf turfIt It would be interesting to know just what the Madden breeding successes would be if in addition to those he sold from Hamburg Place there was added to the number the matrons in foal that he has disposed of from time to time It was the Madden knowledge that mated the mare but he does not appear as the breeder under the rules for he sold before the foal was born The owner of the mare became the breeder breederThis This rule may have an excellent reason but it would seem that the man who selected both sire and dam should come in for the credit oi such a mating The mere purchase of a mare that is in foal makes the purchaser the breed ¬ er of the foal although as a matter of fact he had nothing whatever to do with the mating matingOne One of these comes to mind now in Pur ¬ chase one of the fastest horses that ever stoot on iron He is a son of Onuondale aric Cherryola and the marc was sold by Madden after she was in foal There are many others but this was a notable one The purchase of The Finn by W R Coe from John E Madden and Montfort and B B Jones is a thoroughbred transaction of tre ¬ mendous importance to the thoroughbred breeding world Though Mr Coe paid a record price for an American thoroughbred stock horse when he went to 110000 it would seem that the son of Ogden and Livonia is a bargain at the price priceIn In this sterling young stallion Mr Coe has a double cross of the blood that has been so tremendously successful with American matrons as he has for his sire Ogden and his maternal grandsire Star Shoot Ogden and Star Shoot more than any other stock horses were responsible for the fact that for year after year John E Madden led all the other thoroughbred breeders breedersBoth Both of these English stallions mated with the American mares were more successful than any other recent importations and The Finn combines the blood of both bothStar Star Shoot up to the time of his death in the fall of 1919 was the most successful stock horse of recent years For five different years he headed the list of twenty most successful sires and has been consistently in the first twenty twentyIt It was in 1911 that he first topped the list and his other winning years were 1912 1916 1917 and 1919 the year he died He has been in the first twenty ever since 1911 and his name still appeared in the list for 1922 In 1921 though he had been dead two years the winnings of his progeny placed his nams second to Celt and in 1920 a year after his death he finished fifth on the list Then in 1918 he was a good third to Sweep and Ballot It is to be regretted that Mr Madden has hasdecided decided to retire as a public breeder particu ¬ larly when it is remembered that for the last six years he has headed all the American breeders Mr Madden by his scientific produc ¬ tion of thoroughbred horses has done much for the industry in this country and his re ¬ tirement has been earned but the owners can illafford to lose the opportunity to buy his stock Southern Gentleman has won a race No longer can that other costly futility in horse ¬ flesh Sun Turret neigh scorn to him across the waters hills dales deserts and mountains between Havana and Tijuana In the year ling sales at Saratoga in August 1919 J K L Ross gave 25000 for Sun Turret and W V Thraves paid 24500 for Southern Gentleman Measuring by the yardstick of success in racing it may be said that neither was worth the 500 difference in prices paid for them Perhaps since he cost the most it was fitting that Sun Turret should be first to win a race This he did at Havana January 11 of this year when he defeated Lady Rachel at a mile in 141 Now Southern Gentleman has emulated this noble deed In the best of breeding and illus ¬ trious relationship there was justification for the high sums given But it turned out that they could not run fast Nothing else counts for much in racing Therefore their place is among the costly failures of the sales ring
