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PLAN SIMMS DISPERSAL SALE Xalapa Farm Stud Members to Be Auctioned Off January 19. Xalapa Clown to Go Under Hammer With Others in Paddock Sale at Santa Anita Park. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 13. Mrs. E. F. Simms, prior to her departure last night for home at Houston, Texas, announced that consequent upon the death of her husband last week, her Xalapa Farm thoroughbred horses will be completely dispersed by public auction on Thursday, Jan. 19, 1939. Mrs. Simms further stated that the sale will be held in the spacious glass enclosed training-farm at Xalapa Farm under auspices of the-Fasig-Tipton Company, with Thomas B. Cromwell as sales manager and Doc Bond as auctioneer. Xalapa Farm, which comprises 2,700 acres, is in the fertile district of Bourbon County, Ky., close to North Middletown and about nine miles East of Paris. Mrs. Simms stated that the dispersal is to embrace 129 head. The only horses not to be offered for sale are the venerable stallion, Eternal, and two old blind mares, Tara II. and Venice, which are to be pensioned. Edgar Blanton, who for several years has been in charge of the stud, today stated that the roster of the sale will comprise three stallions, Black Warwick, Compensatory and Crucifixion; sixty-two broodmares, ten coming three-year-old fillies; one coming three-year-old colt; twenty-five coming two-year-olds now in training at Xalapa Farm, and twenty-eight foals of this year. CATALOGUE READY JANUARY 1. Thomas B. Cromwell said that compilation of the catalogue was begun today in the offices of the Fasig-Tipton Company at New York, and that it would be ready for distribution on or about January 1, and would be mailed to persons making application for the catalogue to Fasig-Tipton Company, 604 Fifth Ave., New York, or to Thomas B. Cromwell, 150 Barr St, Lexington. Cromwell further stated that Mrs. Simms has also decided to dispose of the racing stable headed by Xalapa Clown, now at Santa Anita Park in charge- of trainer Allie C. Detweiler, and that arrangements would be made for a paddock sale to be held after the dispersal of the Xalapa Farm Stud. Mrs. Simms authorized Cromwell to say that she is contemplating a sale some time in 1939 of the west portion of Xalapa Farm; that is to say, the land lying west of the Keiser and Thomas Pikes, and two tracks in the southeast side of the walled portion of Xalapa Farm proper. Thus she would retain about one-half of the property, being all of the original Xalapa Farm upon which the late E. F. Simms spent so many hundreds of thousands of. dollars for buildings, stables, training- tracks, paddocks, reservoir, water towers, bridges, roads, fences and thousands of shade trees of every variety. Mrs. Simms stated that she would consider leasing to desirable tenants those sections of this property which have been devoted to breeding and training operations.
