Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-05
WHERE FAMOUS
HORSES ARE RAISED
". c. Whitney's La Belle Stud
Farm and It's Fine
Stock.
WORTH AT LEAST 81, 100000
Blue Grass Region Literally Dotted
With Establishments for the Breed.
ing Of ThOrOughbreds and Trotters.

A dispatch from Lexington, Ky,,says:
The Blue Grass region Of Kentucky Is
literally dotted with establishments for
the breeding OF thoroughbreds and trot-
ters-there being j. b, Higgins Elm
dorf stud August Blemont's Nursey
stud, James Il. Keene's Casteton stud,
$. $. Browns Senorita stud A Feather
stones Kenmore farm, l., " Hardness
Walnut Hall farm, w. Il. D. Stokes
patchen Wilkes farm John +. Mad
den's Hamburg place, James Il. Pep
per's Meadowthorpe farm, Hal +, Heal
ey's Beaumont stud and a hundred 9th.
ers contiguous to Lexington, Versail-
les, Paris, Frankfurt, Georgetown,
Danyllle, Harrodsburg. NicholasyIle.
Midway and Winchester, but no one
can boast of more costly collection Of
individuals than the late William G..
Whitney gathered at his La Belle stud.
The barns and buildings Of La Belle
stud Were not owned by Mr. Whitney.
lie merely rented the property from
Hal p. Headey, who purchased ~ ON
III. Eugene Leigh, when that noted turf
man had his dispersal sale about five
years ago to 30 abroad. it was, how
ever MT, Whtney's intention to pur-
chase a place could his agents find a To-
cation for sale which exactly suited his
fancy, and had he lived he would prob
ably have possesser an estate and an
establishment to outriyal Elmsdorf,
which Is the most complete and mag
nliicent breeding plant In all Kentucky.
But II the Whitney collection Of stall
lions and brood mares Is to be dispersed
1t viii be regrettable to the people Of
the Blue Grass country. They had
come to believe IL q fixture. Visitors
were taken tire in great numbers and
the merits Of the grand stations and
noted matrons We're told them with the
same pride that filed the breast OF the
Californian when he showed the way
through the late Senator Stanford's
great Palo Alto, or the Montana ranch
err when he expatiated on the grandeur
Of the horses an dtheir home at the
late Marcus Days once famous Bitter
Root ranch, now beet farm, IN poses
sion OF Senator w. A. Clark.
To the merchants OF Lexington Mr..
Whltney's stud meant n great revenue,
for the needs Of nine stations. 81 brood
mares, half n hundred weanlings and
as many yearllngs and 2-year-olds are
many and costly.
The horses now at La Belle stud rep
resent a cost to Mr.. Whitney Of more
than 81 OOO, O0O-origlnal purchase price
and their care-though It IL doubtful IL
they are sold that they viii bring as
much as he paid for them There is
Hamburg, which was purchased at the
DAILY dispersal sale for $50. 900; Nastur.
tium for which he paid $4,000, imp.
Meddler, which represents an outlay of
$4,000 Yankee, $4,000. Ballyhoo Bey,
Backstock, Kilmarnock and Gold.
smith, that were up IN the pictures"
IN price Endurance by Right cost him
10000 Blue Girl. s2j 900. the st. simon
filly, $4,000; Judith Campbell. $4,000;
Gunilre, $4,000 Armenia, $4,000, Leon.
idas, $50, 900; InneXlble. $50 600. Hippo.
crates, $4,000; Reliance, $4,000, and so
on until one might grow dizzy over the
figures.
Price made little difference TO Mr..
Whitney. He may have exceeded real
values many times, but he never had
complaint on such score. n he was
disappointed he was apparently not dis.
gruntled. His Views In this direction
are best understood after acquaintance
with the reply he made TO a gentleman
who asked him II 1t were not possible