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NURSERY SALE ON FRIDAY ♦ Noted Breeders of This and Other Countries to Be Represented. • Preparations Completed to Entertain Largest Crowd Ever Assembled at a Sa!e la This Country. NEW YORK. N. T.. May 11.— All roads ■will load to Kentucky this week, where the dispersal sale of the famous Nursery Stud. and the running of the Kentucky Derby on Friday and Saturday, respectively, will engage the attention of bloodstock fanciers and racing enthusiasts from every state in the Union and the Dominion of Canada, with a sprinkling of foreign experts thrown in for good measure. A remarkable fact in connection with the Nursery sale has to do with the unusual number of applications for catalogs that have come from prominent breeders of pure bred cattle throughout the Union. In many of the communications the intention to be present at the sale i3 announced, and it is aafc to say that many broad acres that have hitherto been devoted solely to cattle will resound to the tramp of thoroughbreds, for the psychology of the sales ring mokes it almost impossible for livestock breeding experts to keep from bidding, when desirable specimens are brought into the ring. Cattle and horses go together as a rule, and pastures are enriched, by the plan of alternating the types on land In England, many cattle breeders keep a few thoroughbred mares and send them to the court3 of the various good horses that are to be found throughout the length and breadth of the "right little, tight little Island" where the breed originated It is the same in Ireland, where bloodstock breeding is so popular and widespread that the priest frequently owns the best mare in the parish. CATTLE BREEDERS TRIBUTE. Perhaps the greatest tribute from a cattle breeder to the late Maj. August Belmont, as a bloodstock expert, came from James R. MacMillan. of MacMillan and MacMillan. of Liodi Wis., producers of shorthorns, with 4740 acres in pasture. Mr. MacMillan says, among other things, "There is no question but what the late August Belmont has proved to be the greatest breeder and improver of the great thoroughbred not excepting the late Duke of Westminster, in the eighties, and Ix rd Falmouth in the days of his Wheel of Fortune and Silvio." . Hundreds of catalogs of the Nursery sale Were distributed abroad Much of the blood represented in the W specimens that Mr. Bain will offer to the highest bidder, on Friday next, would be highly desirable in foreign studs. This would be particularly true of the Rock Sand mares, whose reputation as producers stand on a solid foundation. There are no fewer than 16 daughters of Rock Sand in the sale. Among those on the foreign mailing list were : King Alfonso XIII. of Spain, King Albert of Belgium, and the Prince of Wales. King Alfonso is a thorough sportsman, with a fine stable of horses racing at San Sebastian, Deauville and other points. He is a keen student of pedigrees and a fine judge of a horse according to Lucien Lyme, the American jockey who has been in the imperial service for years. KING OF SPAIN ACKNOWLEDGES. The King of Spain voiced his thanks for the Nursery catalog through his secretary. Count Emilio del Torres. The letter was in French and bore the imperial seal. The following is a free translation : "I have the honor to inform you that His Majesty, the King — God guard him — has received with pleasure the catalog of the dispersal of the famous Nursery Stud that you have been good enough to send him. My august master has charged me to write and thank you very sincerely in his name for your delicate attention." King Albert of Belgium is also a superb horseman and is greatly interested in both the thoroughbred and the draft type, for which his country is famous. Some years ago, while on a visit to California, he rode tho great trotter Uhlan, and Mr. Billings has among his most treasured photographs a picture of the Belgian monarch astride the black champion. The caption "A Pair of Kings" is both accurate and happy. The Prince of Wales was Mr. Wideners guest at i Belmont Tark last fall and an acknowlede-ment will no doubt be forthcoming on his | return from his trip to South Africa and India. ONE THOUSAND RINGSIDE SEATS. Arrangements have been made to seat 1,000 persons at the ringside and reservations have been made for the following breeders, fanciers and racing enthusiasts from New York, who will be accompanied by a number of relatives and friends: Payne Whitney, William Woodward. Harry Payne Whitney, Robert P. Jerry, Marshall Field, Robert A. Fairbairn, Robert Clark, F. Ambrose Clark, William R. Coe, James Butler, Gifford A. Cochran. Lawrence Waterbury, James C. Brady, John Sanford. J. S. Cosden, Harold Phipps, Harry F. Sinclair, J. Leonard Replo-gle. Col. H. H. Williams, William Ziegler, Jr., W. J. Salmon, Joseph E. Davis and Arthur Fowler. The delegation from Pennsylvania will be headed by Joseph E. Widener and will include Jeorge p. Widener. Samuel D. Riddle, Walter M. Jeffords. Victor Mather, W. J. Clothier und It. K. Strawbridge. William A. di 1int will represent Wilmington, Del., and Ral Parr will come from Baltimore. Alfred llennen Morris and Robert Walden are npsetoi from Mlddbburg. Md.. while the Washington and Virginia contingent will in- | elude Reir Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Samuel Ross, William R. Hitt, II. Rozier Dulany. Cupt. I*. M. Walker, Rccd Riley, Kenneth Gilpin, Arthur Wartucn, Arthur Frost, Dr. A. C. Randolph, Charles Herring, William Garth and 10. B. McLean. Preparations havo been made to serve luncheon for 2,000 p.t 12:30. This function Will be In charge of the I adles Aid of the Church of tho Good Shepherd. Many will nave their first taste of burgoo, that delec-tnblo concoction peculiar to Kentucky, whose excellence is worthy of tho pen of another Thackeray, whoso praise of tho boulllaibaise of Mnrsellles made that French port known the uorld over.
