The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26

string Means an Expenditure OF
$1,000 a Year for Each Horse Han
dIed.
From the New York Herald.
There are two classes Of men on the turf
1 do not refer 10 social status. because,
as Admiral Rous once said in England
upon the turf and under the turf all men
are equal" but to the class which breeds
and races its own horses, and to the other
class which buys at yearling sales. and
in most cases represents those who follow
the racing for what there is TO be made
out OF it, and not as a sport. nor as an en-
couragement to the breeding Of the thor
oughbred. in the first class belong such
men as August Belmont, Pierre Lorillard.
the Aessrs Thompson, the Messrs. Morris,
the Messrs. Keene, Mr.. A j. Cassatt (al-
though the latter has temporarily retired
and a number OF others on a smaller scale.
1t is my Intention TO deal in this article
almost exclusively with what it costs
these gentlemen to maintain their racing
establishments.
In order to properly organize their turf
interests. each of these gentlemen prac-
tically maintains three separate establish
ment-i., E., the stock farm proper. which
may be in the eastern states, or in Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Virginia or California
An average sized stock farm has one nun
dred brood mares and from FIVE to ten
stations. Out Of all the fOals dropped on
one Of these farms - the per-
centage to mares varies with
each season, and will average about
70 per cent.-not more than third ever
reach the rank Of the racing stable. The
others die, meet with accidents in the
paddock while at play, or are unsound
and unfit to train. These yearlings are
credited to the stock farm at a certain
valuation and constitute establishment
No. 2, separate entirely from both the
stock farm and the racing stable. They
are first broken thoroughly and handled,
ready for the trainer, who takes them
after the racing season is closed. Inc
owner then charges them up at certain
valuation TO his racing establishment, and
in the case Of fllies, when their racing
days are closed, and the form they dis
play warrants 1T, and also If the blood lines
are desirable to outcross with the home
stations, they are charged back again to
the stock farm and become part of the
invested capital.
The best known stock farms are the
Rancocas, at Jobstown, N. j., near Tren-
ton, belonging to Pierre Lorillard; Mr.. A.
]. Cassatt's Chesterbrook, near Berwyn,
Pa, about twenty miles from Philadel-
phia; that OF the Messrs. Keene at Cas-
tleton, Tenn; that of the Messrs. Morris
in Gillespie county, Texas; the famous
nursery stud in Kentucky founded by the
Hon. August Belmont and continued in its
entirety by his. son, August Belmont, Jr.,
and Brookdale, near Red Bank, NJ j.,
founded by the late d. d. WithePs, and now
the property of Col. w. p. Thompson,
president of the National Lead Company.
At Rancocas Mr.. Lorillard has as stall
lions the unbeaten Sensation, imp. Pom
tiac. imp. Sailor Prince, Emperor, Cho-
lula and about one hundred and fifty brood
mares. But somehow Rancocas does not
breed anything near stake class of
horses. They tppn out fairly servieeable,
and although Mr.. Lorillard talks of rae
ing in England, the product of Rancacos
must average several hundred per cent.
higher than those in training in this coun-
try to repeat the victories of Iroquois and
Parole on the English turf.
AT Chesterbfook, Mr.. Cassatt has that
famous son of Longfellow. The Bard, in
his day about the best horse in training,
and also Stratford Mr.. Cassatt has been
selling his yearlngs since his retirement,
but they have brought such poor prices in
entree next year Is almost an assured fact,
as this year the Chesterbrook yearlings
have not been sold, but are to be put into
training Chesterbrook has great many
natural advantages; the soil is rich and
the pasture luxuriant; there is a natural
water course flowing through the farm, a
well constructed half mile training track,
substantial buildings and seventy-five well
bred stud matrons, although 1t would
seem as If a little new blood in this direc-
ton would give The Bard a better chance.
At Castleton, Tenn, the Messrs. Keene
have Tournament and imp. Kallicrates and
a number of finely bred mares; but this
stock farm IS really in it's infancy and
what success Tournament is to be as a sire
cannot be answered as yet, as nonesof his
get are old enough to start.
The Nursery Stud ranks second to none
in this country. Mr.. Belmont spared no
expense on the farm itself nor in the
character of the stock with which he
peopled it-as the first home in this coun-
try OF imp. St. Blaise, imp. Ill Used, imp
Gleneig, Felowcraft and list too long to
enumerate. Now its glories are being per-
petuated by imp. Rayon dor, his son
Badge, Magnetizer and Fiddlesticks
There are about one hundred and twenty
five brood mares on the place and about
ten acres fenced in and cut up into pad
docks for their use. Mr.. Belmont also has
a Iafm at BABYLON, Il. L., winch is used to
break and handle the yearlings before they
go into Trainer Joyners hands.
Brookdale is the birthplace of such IA
nous races as Arab, Marsh, Redon, Stone
nell, Laggard. Blackstone, etc. Among the
stud matrons are Cascade, imp. Album
dance, Aurcoma, Chemise, Adage, Uproar.
Retribution. Cyclone, Orageuse, Majolica.
the latter now with superb sucking colt
at her feet, which looks so bright and
quick that if a saddle were put on his back
he would jump right out and win his first
race now.
To feed them takes each year four hun
dred tons of haysand fifteen thousand