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-- ---------------------- ------ .........f Kentucky Breeding Establishments No. 22 By THOS. B. CROMWELL. .-. . . The twenty-second of a series of articles containing information concerning: ownership, location, acreage, equipment and horse population of thoroughbred breeding farms in Kentucky, follows: FRANKLIN COUNTY. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 25 Here and there in Franklin County, wherein is located Kentuckys state capitol, at Frankfort, one is apt to find a thoroughbred mare or two on a number of farms, but at this time there are only four farms that can be rightfully said to be principally devoted to the production of thoroughbred horses. SILVER LAKE FARM. Charles W. Black, the present owner of Silver Lake Farm, is the third generation of horse breeders on that land, which lies three miles east of Frankfort on State Highway 40 and now embraces 438 acres., Stephen Black, Charles W. Blacks grandfather, was the first of the horse breeders there. He bred trotters principally. He vas succeeded by his son, the late Howard Black, father of Charles W. Black, who bred trotters, saddle horses and thoroughbreds. On 96 acres of Silver Lake Farm was one of the first if not the first mile oval tracks for racing in the state of Kentucky. The last of the races held there were in 1845. Charles W. Black has for this season at Silver Lake Farm the stallions Wise Counsellor, King Nadi, Playtime arid Good Advice. He keeps thirty mares, of which seven are maidens and the remaining twenty-three are to foal this season. He has nineteen yearlings and four two-year-olds. He breeds for the market generally though once in a while has a horse in training. His yearlings ? -e usually sold at Saratoga in August. THISTLETON FARMS. George Collins is the master of Thistleton Farms, owned by Mr. and Mrs. George Collins, one mile from Frankfort on the road between Frankfort and Louisville. Thistleton Farms embrace 780 acres formerly owned by the late Col. Edmund H. Taylor, noted dis-r tiller who also established Hereford Farms, now owned by Silas B. Mason in Woodford County. Mr. Collins has the stallion Old Slip, twenty-six mares, eight yearlings, five two-year-olds, and twelve older horses. He has a half-mile training track on the farm and does the preliminary training there. For a number of years he maintained a racing stable in charge of a trainer, but for the last two or three years he has been in the habit of putting his horses out with public trainers. SCOTLAND FARM. C. W. "Timmie" Hay, who is widely known as a racing official and race course manager, being at the present time manager of Hawthorne at Chicago, and Alamo Downs at San Antonio, Texas, is the owner of Scotland Farm, five miles from Frankfort on the road between Lexington and Frankfort. This farm, which embraces 500 acres, formerly was the property of Mr. Hays father-in-law, the late Col. J. Swigert Taylor, son of the late Col. Edmund H. Taylor. The stallions at Scotland Farm this season are Judge Hay and Sir Peter, and the band of mares number twenty-two. The yearlings number fifteen. There is no training track on the farm, but usually a few horses are broken there. It is judge Hays practice to sell his product as yearlings. 1IOLTON FARM. This farm of 200 acres, located at Forks of Elkhorn, in Franklin County, was a grant to the Holton family over 150 years ago and has never been bought or sold by anyone. It has been the home of the Holton family through the last century and a half. At the present time it is owned by J. L., Sandy and Mary Holton and is managed by L. F. "Dicky" Holton. No stallion stands there. The mares number ten and the yearlings six. There is one horse in training at , the farm at present. The great "four-mile mare" Nantura, dam of Longfellow, was bred, owned and raised by Capt. J. H. Hoi-1 ton, who at that time was the owner of the farm. Fanny Holton, dam of Ten Broeck, j was bred there and was sold by the Holtons j to the Harpers.
