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SALE OF McLEAN HORSES Dispersal of Famous Stud to Be Held at Virginia Farm on Monday, June 15. Dispersal sales of thoroughbreds have become quite so fashionable and common an occurrence of late that one begins to look somewhat aghast for the future welfare of our racing and turf. More especially when such a prominent proponent of racing and breeding as Edward Beale McLean, whose silks have been carried so successfully and prominently on our turf by the horses he has bred and reared on his own farm, has decided to quit breeding. Thus, all his thoroughbred stock, including the following four sires: The Porter, Prince of Wales, Neddie and Time Maker, some forty-odd mares, most of them with foals at foot, and twenty-six choicely bred yearlings will come under the auctioneers hammer. This important sale, under the management of E. J. Tranter, president of the Fasig-Tip-ton Sales Company of New York, will be held on Monday, June 15, at the Belmont Plantations, Leesburg, Va., some thirty miles from Washington. It offers one more real chance to breeders to acquire a line of the best racing and breeding blood such as seldom enters the sales ring. That the thoroughbred stock of the stud has for years been foremost among the most successful on our turf is amply proven by the indisputable fact that horses bred at this Virginia farm have placed their owner-breeder at the head of the winning owners list as recently as 1928, when the McLean stable won 34,640 in stakes.
