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EDWARD CEBRIANS SALE Temporary Retirement of the Young California Breeder. Remarkable Dispersal of a Successful Thoroughbred Establishment Creates Much Interest. 4 At a time when there are so many newcomers to the ranks of owners of racing stables and breeding establishments, it would appear rather unusual that one of the most successful breeders of race horses in America should be disposing of a fine breeding establishment. Circumstances have forced Edward Cebrian to give up his breeding farm in Kentucky in order that he may take entire charge of Cuyama Ranch, a property covering 45,000 acres in California. Mr. Cebrian, in partnership with his brothers, owns this great estate and has contracted to tako entire charge of the ranch for a period of three years. This contract has made it necessary for him to give up his great pleasure which has long been the breeding of thoroughbreds, in order that he may devote his entire time to the interests of his family. He is still a young man and, feeling that duty called, he decided to answer. It is remarkable in the annals of the breeding industry that a young man, who took up the breeding of thoroughbreds as a serious vocation only six years ago, should have come to the standing of tenth most successful breeder in the lists of this country. Mr. Cebrian first took up breeding in his native state of California, after having made a thorough study of the thoroughbred. He has been a keen and close student of blood lines, conformation and has proved himself a believer in breeding to female lines that have proved successful. LEASED KEEXELAXD FARM. It was not long after he had taken up breeding that Mr. Cebrian became convinced that the Blue Grass region of Kentucky was the best place in America to produce good race horses. He moved all his horses from California to Lexington, the center of the breeding industry of the country, and for some time has been meeting with marked success at Kceneland Farm, one of the best of breeding farms in Kentucky and a property that is owned by J. O. and G. H. Keenc, from whom Mr. Cebrian leased the land. This property has been under the ownership of the Keene family for much more than a century. Mr. Cebrian started out with the ambition to lead the list of American breeders, anil it is unfortunate that he should feel it necessary to give up his laudable ambition after having climbed within a few years so near the top. He still hopes, however, to come back at the completion of his enforced retirement and again have a farm in the Blue Grass state. He is keeping some young fillies of his own breeding which may be raced under his colors and later retired so that he may hava a nucleus of a breeding establishment when he can come back to take up this line of endeavor. SIXTY-EIGHT IX SALE. There will be an auction sale of the Cebrian horses at Keeneland Farm near Lexington on Tuesday, January 22. It will be one of the most "important dispersal sales ever held in this country and there will be a total of sixty-eight thoroughbreds disposed of. There are three stallions to be sold in Troutbeck, Ionian and American Ace. There are thirty-eight fine brood mares, two that are two-year-olds and ready to race and twenty-four yearlings foaled in 1923. The stallions represented are among the best of the world and the brood mares have been most carefully selected and are a most valuable lot. Breeders and turfmen in general will regret the temporary retirement of Mr. Cebrian and there will be some spirited bidding for his blood stock when George A. Bain steps upon the auction block down at the old farm a week from tomorrow, for already horsemen are there looking over the horses to be sold and all sections of the country will be represented on the day of the sale.
