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, TRYSTER SOLD FOR 5,000 Maple ton Studs Sire Brings Top Price at Sale — Mares Sold at Bargain Prices. BERWYN, Pa., June 7.— Tryster, son of Peter Pan— Tryst, which C. J. Fitz Gerald once sold for 00,000, brought only 5,000 at the dispersal of the Mapleton Stud, the property of Carstairs and Pierce, at the farm near here yesterday. Tryster, a stake winner of seventeen races and 02,000 and sire of more than fifty two-year-old winners in his first five crops, headed the stud. He was purchased by an unidentified Maryland sportsman. Twenty-two broodmares, the majority with foals at foot, and twelve yearlings, brought a total of 3,825 under the hammer. The mares offered were daughters of Man o War, Broomstick, Bubbling Over, North Star III., High Time, Sun Briar, Sweep, Bachelors Double, Sunstar, Roi Herode, Myram and Sunspot. Many had foals at side by Tryster, Sun Briar, American Flag, John P. Grier and Epinard. The yearlings were all by Tryster. Several of the broodmares were of exceptional bloodlines and sold at bargain prices. Among the buyers were Willis Sharpe Kilmer, S. W. Labrot, Audley Farms, Justa Farms, Dr. J. M. Casey, Herring Brothers, Silas Mason and R. McCoy.
