The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1896-10-21
SALE OF THE LATE NICK TIMERS
BREEDING ESTABLISH
MENT.
AN AGGREGATE OF S44,S75.

A large crowd attended the sale of the
Glen Agnes Stock Farm and thorough
bred stock, property of the late Mr..
Nick FINER, near MiddletoYn, Fri
day near Louisville.
the sale was conducted by the Fidel-
ity Trust Company, executors of Nick
Finer, deceased, and the property was
auctioned off by S. S. Meddis
There was a good attendance from
Louisville, augmented by a number
from a distance. Breeders of the thor
oughbred horses were well represented,
among them being Milton Young, H. P.
Headly, Chas. McMeekin, Chas. Moore,
and o. III. Chenault, Lexington, KY; j.
n. Camden, Jr., Versailles, KY; J. f.
Gushing, Chicago, ILL.,; Breckenridge
Wiley, Midway, KY; Kinzea Stone,
Georgetown, Ky ; Hiram Scoggan, Louis
vile.
The farm and stock brought an ag-
gregate of Si4, S75, the farm alone selling
for So, 40, and the stock Sl96 35. The
farm consists of 306 acres, and is one Of
the highest improved stock farms in the
State of Kentucky. Mr.. FINER expend-
ed nearly $4,000 in Improvements in adj
dition to the first cost of the land. Bid
ding on the farm was confined to Messrs.
George Tarleton and II. Linn, both of
Louisville, the latter representing him
self and j. j. Douglas, the well-known
trotting horse man of this city. After
some pretty exciting bidding the farm
was knocked down to Mr.. Linn for
$50 so per acre, or total of SIS 240 Mr..
Linn stated to a Courier-Jo urnal repre-
sentative that it is his and Mr.. Douglas
intention 10 use the farm for breeding
purposes for both the thoroughbred and
trotter. His purchase of imp Eothen
and number of brGodmares corrobor-
ated his statement.
All things considered the thorough
bred stock sold well. There were only
few mares that are what is called FASH
icuably bred, and this, combined with
the hard times, caused number of them
to sell very low. But when well-bred,
goodlooking individuals were offered good
prices were realized. This fact was il
Illustrated when a weanling colt, by imp.
Eothen, out OF imp. Maori, was Knocked
down to Milton Young, proprietor ofthe
McGrathiana stud, Lexington, KY, for
81 900, after the hottest kind OF competi-
ton.
1t has been several years since a
weanling has sold in Kentucky for that
sum.
The star attraction of the sale was the
elegantly bred horse, imp. EOthen, sire
OF Requital, regarded as the best race
horse now OH the American turf. The
bidding was very spirited from the first,
number of persons joining the strug-
gle to obtain the splendidly bred son of
Hampton. ]. II. Linn, who bought the
farm, outlasted all his competitors and
got the horse at 81 900.
VolaDte, the apple OF Finzer's eye,
sold for the low sum of $3.50. He cost
the late owner of Glen Agnes 81 800 sew
eral years ago. King Lee, who cost Mr..
FINER in the neighborhood of $4,000,
sold for $50. The chief cause OF King
Lee selling so low was that w. f. Schultz,
proprietor of the Argyle stud, has
lease on him for five years without COM
pensation, and no one cared to invest
money that would have to lay so long
without any return.
A total of seventy-five head were sold
for an aggregate of 1855, and feature
of the sale was that not a single animal
was passed out of the ring, thing
seldom seen in a sale OF so many ami
mails.