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DISSOLVE OLD PARTNERSHIP Morris and Walden Horses to Be Sold November 3. Forty-Year-Old Racing Organization Selling Brood Mares, Yearlings and Weanlings at Pimlico Auction. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 19 One of the oldest alliances on the American turf will be broken at Pimlico November 4, when the breeding stud of Alfred Heenan Morris and Robert Wyndham Walden will be sold at auction by the Maryland Bloodstock Agency, Inc. This dispersal will mark the termination of probably the oldest partnership in the racing and breeding of the thoroughbred today. For upwards of forty years the Morris-Walden partnership has been in existence, and during that period many top-notch horses bred by them at their Bowling Brook Stud, Middleburg, Va., sported the famous "all scarlet," first made famous by the Morris family in the sixties. The silks were carried by such high-class racers as Barbarous Battalion, Ruthless, Relentless and Remorseless, to name a few of that period. In the present century the scarlet has been flaunted to many notable successes by such horses as Rustic, Broken Vows, Sir James and Pennywise. The colors have always been sported in the best interests and purely for the love of the greatest of all pastimes. BROOD MARES OF BEST BLOOD. Jn recent years many good horses have been bred and reared at Morris and Wal-dens Bowling Brook Stock Farm. No expense was spared by the proprietors in acquiring for breeding purposes the best blood to be found in the stud books of the old and new worlds. Regardless of cost, sires and brood mares of the most fashionable and bluest blood have been imported from time to time from England and France, and some of the studs best American-bred mares were shipped across the Atlantic to be mated with the most famous sultans holding court in England, Ireland and France. At few American stock farms will one find a more select coterie of mares, home-bred, imported and the daughters of imported sires, than roam the spacious paddocks of the Bowling Brook Farm. The fourteen matrons that will come under auctioneer George A. Bains hammer include the imported mare Hortense II., daughter of the St. Leger winner, Troutbeck, and Denise, a mare of foreign origin foaled in this country by the English-bred sire Tredennis, from Barnbel, by the St. Leger and Ascot Gold Cup winner, Bayardo. Then there are daughters of Master Charlie, Rire aux Larmes, Transvaal, Bucellas and Tromp la Mort There also are daughters of the successful" home-bred sires Sir Barton, Dalhousie and Flint Rock. SIX MATRONS IN FOAL. Six of these mares have been bred and are believed to be in foal to the English-bred sire Bucellas, stake winning son of Buchan and Wendela and the sire of more than ten winners. Six mares are stinted to the French-bred sire Mackenzie II., a high-class race horse in France, and a successful winner producer, despite his limited chances. Another of the mares, New Hope, has been mated to Rustic, while the remaining mare, the three-year-old White Ray, was not bred this season. Four weanlings, three of which, two colts and a filly, claim the imported horse Bucellas as their sire, and a filly by Rustic Denise will also enter the sale ring. Mack- i enzie II a powerful young chestnut son of ! Nerwood Guerroyante, by the triple crown winner Flying Fox, from Thais II., a daughter of the Cambridgeshire Stakes, Lincolnshire Handicap and Prix dii Conseil Municipal winner, Winkfields Pride, will be sold
