The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-22
SPORTING NEWS.
Good Brood Mares Are a Gold
Mine These Days.
Fortunes That Have Followed
Lucky Strikes in Breeding.
YOUNGSTER OF VALUE.
Great Price Expected from Sale
of Noted Colt.
Own Brother to s'Blues," "Blue
Grip and " Blue Ribbon

Lexington. KY. Jan. 22.-Much figur-
ing is being INDUCED in here as to the
actual value of a dark bay colt at the
Raceland Stud, and horsemen are spec
ulating as to what the royal-bred
youngster will sell for as a yearling
next spring. He is by Sir Dixon, out
of Bonnie Blue &c, by Hindoo and is,
therefore, an own brother to Blue Girl,
Blues and Blue Ribbon, a trio of SEN
sations that combined have won over
$4,000 on the turf. Bonnie Blue I'd has
only had five foals, the three stars
above named, this youngster and a colt
now 2-year-oId in the stable of Mil
Iionaire S. S. Brown. Her last two
foals sold at public sale have brought
over $4,000, and as this is said to be
the grandest locker the mare has ever
dropped, the chances seem rosy for him
bringing close to the record price when
the auctfoneer's hammer falls on him
next June. This great mare promises
TO De Veritable gold mine for her
owner, Catesby Woodford he having
already realized over $25, 900 by the sale
of her produce at yearling time and he
still has this youngster to bring more
money into the Raceland farm treas
ury, and the famous mare is now only
13 years old.
When the late celebrated horseman.
Byron McClelland, died he left as Il
legacy to his widow several of the
most valuable pieces of property in
this city, but not one of the build
ings, of which one is Lexington'S only
sky-scrapper, has proved to this lady
a better paying investment than the
great mare, SaIlie McClelland which
also fell to her on his death For four
foaJS out of this mare Mrs. McClelland
has received the snug sum of $21 400.
and the famous stud matrOn seemingly
has yet years of usefulness before her
OF these four foals his Lordship, still
owned by his original purchaser, J. D.
Smith, brought her s., 400; Saratoga
Belle, young mare in the stud at
Hamburg place, cost J. E. Madden &c.
| 900; Audience, Captain S. S. Browns
great FLY, swelled her bank account
4,50O, and German & Bauer gave her
81, 500 for the sister to Audience, which
is now a 2year-old
According to statistics compiled here
perhaps the greatest money-making
mare as a producer for her owner was
Imp. Cinderella, which was the prop
erty of DR.. ]. D. Meet. Counting the
final sale of her breeding qualities to
w c. Whitney, the Woodford county
physician cleared right at $100, 900 on
the English mare.
George H. Clay bought his Balgowan
breeding establishment from proceeds
of the sale of yearHngs thrown by the
noted Ballet. Her sons and daughters
were annually sold at that tender age,
enriching their owner $4,000. After re-
alizing $50, 600 on the sale of the year
lings out of Maud Hampton, Major Z.
@. Thomas sold the old mare for $18, 4
500, and the sale of the produce of
QueSal which he still owns, has al
ready brought him thousands of dollars.
Out of his savings as a clerk Q. D.
Randolph bought Manola Mason for a
small figure. She threw McChesney,
E. E. Snathers' $4,000 horse, and in
few years has only to live to bring him
in a thouSand-fold on his investment.
The same good fortune is in store for
H. A. Engman, the owner of Katy
of the West. She has already thrown
Hermis and suddenly become valu-
able as gold mine as a producer. Be
cause she was slightly crippled, buy
er could not be found for Jamaica for
quite time. Finally Luke Broad
head, manager of Woodford Farm,
then in his glory. secured her for A. J.
Alexander She threw the great Fox
hall and then her yearlings commanded
fabulous sums, she bringing in this way
in the neighborhood of $50, 900 into the
strong box of Alexander.
Theodore Winters passed a check for
$500 to the owner of Marian when the
mare was just out of training. Some of
her produce he raced and won a for
tune on them. Later he sold her sons
and daughters and all told realized over
Sl25,O on his observation-disclosures in
vestment, her last colt alone bringing
$50, 600 For the last few years Captain
J. b Clay has kept up the expense of
the Iroquois stud and his other interest
on the sale of the produce of the dams
Of Major Daingerfield and Lady Schorr-
The latter's last colt sold for Sc, 100 and
the sale of Mon Droit's recent produce
have brought him thousands of dollars.
F. B. Harper won with and sold the
sons and daughters of Belle Knight for
over $500 900. She cost him the insignif-
cant sum of 5000
Op I, iSl~x no nj
E. F. Clay gave for Nancy Jane She
threw Miss Woodford, and the Bourbon
breeder thus sot a fortune for his
! liquor. He also got Mercedes out from
between the shafts of Wickliffe Pres
toms buggy and her produce brought
to Runnymede $4,000. Semper Idem,
the dam of the great Longstreet, for
seasons brought an average of $1,000
year income to her owner, c. B. HaW-
! kins, and the very successful racing
| firm of EastiH & Larrabie scored their
| marvellous triumphs with horses out of
a few mares they owned which later
| they sold in a lump for a fortune to
/ Multmiilionaire ]. b. Haggin.
The stud books TEEN with incidents
of marvellous successes made by a
small investment in thoroughbred
| mares and there are also numerous
/ cases where even fancy-Driced mares
causing an outlay of nearly all the
| capital of the investor have in the end
| won fortune for their owner. Thora
Brademante and Duchess are incidents
| of the latter type. With the dams of
such horses as McChesney, Hermis and
| Dicke Welles in the hands of men
! which with these combined stud ma
| irons holding scarcely all together,
| don't control over a dozen mares. illus
| trates by figures what a rival the
small breeder has become to the mil
| 1ionaire who controls his thousands of
acres and his brood mares on every
hill It also shows that it is about the
only business in these time of settled
affairs that it is possible for a man
| to chance two or three hundred dollars
and make a hundred thousand on the
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