The age-herald., 1899-01-18
IN THE SOUTHERN MEMS PLACE.
New York Nillionaires Are Pushing Ken tucky's Turfmen Into the Background.

From the New York World.
 The New York millionaire is fastetaking the place of the "Kentucky gentleman" as the breeder and raiser of the thoroughbred. Wall street has invaded the Blue Grass zion and the most valuable farms are being bought and stocked with the picked racers of two continents. General Abe Buford, John M. Clay, a son of Henry Clay; Hunt Reynolds, R. A. Alexander, Price McGrath, Major B. G. Thomas, the Blackburns. the Warfields, the Swigerts and the Harpers are the names that were on the lips of the racing men east and west quarter of century ago. These were the men who not only bred the kings and queens of the turf, but campagned them as well and then tired them to the stud, there to continue the royal line.
 Here is a list of the New Workers who have purchased Blue Grass farms and thoroughbreds or have horses on leased places, and the amounts of the various in- vestments: August Belmont, $500,000; J. R. and Foxhall P. Keene, $500, ,000 J. B. flag gin, $50O, ,OOO; ". c. Whitney, $3OO,OO0 L. o. Appleby, $100,000; A. H. and D. H. Morris. $50,O00; Elliott c. Cowdin, $50000; James Gal way, S50,000; Dave Pusifer $50, ,00O; E. D. Morgan, $25,OOO; Hitchcock Brothers, $25, ,O00; Frederick Gebhard, $25,0OO; F. D. Beard. $25,000; Perry Belmont, $25.000; O. H. P. Belmont, S10,000 The total is $2, 091, rather an insignificant sum from New York standpoint, but a world of money to the Kentuckan.
 The pioneer New Yorker in the Blue Grass was Milton H. Sanford. More than twenty years ago he bought an estate near Lexington and called it the Preakness Stud. Early in the sos he sold out farm and horses to Daniel Swigert, Kentuckian, for $125,000, and the name of the establish ment was changed to Elmendorf. For ten years this was the most successful stud in America.
 Elmendorf is now the property of J. B. Haggin, the multi-millionare of New York and San Francisco and probably the most extensive breeder of thoroughbreds in the world. Several years elapsed between the departure of Milton H. Sanford and the en- trance of another New York millionaire to the Blue Grass The second visitor was the late August Belmont. He set the fashion and the others followed. MT. Belmont took a long lease on what was known as the Sutton Farm, made costly extensive inn provements, and named it the Nursery Stud, after his place at Babylon, L. I. On the death of his father young August Bel mont bought the lease of the Nursery farm.
 J. R. and Foxhall P. Keene have a long lease on what is probably the crack farm of the Blue Grass region. It is Castleton, until recently home of trotters. It con- tains 600 acres, much of which is virgin woodland, and is as fine a tract of land ''as a crow ever flew over
 The latest New York millionaire to an- nounce his intention of buying a farm in the Blue Grass region is w. c. Whitney. and Kentuckians are as deeply interested in his movements as are his friends in the east. MT. Whitney recently purchased the stallion imp. Meddler at public auction for $19,O00; Roseville, the dam of Ben Brush, for s7,600, and number of other great mares, and now has them quartered at Ashland, the former home of Henry Clay.