The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-30
HUNTERS AND HOUNDS VALUED
HIGH PRICES AT FOXHALL
KEENE'S DISPERSAL SALE.

James n. Keene Purchaser - Mrs.
Ladenburg Buys Irish Jump ers-
Meadow Brook Cots tho Pack and
Clarence Mackay May BE Next NJ. r. II.
Foxhall P. Keenes pack Of foxhounds.
the first ever offered at auction In this coun-
try. sold for $e,lsO last night at Van Tassell
q Kearney's new mart, and his seventeen
hunters brought S22,65o. 1t was the first
electric light sale ever held in the mart, and
a good beginning, for 1t was the best sale
Of hunters on the records.
The highest prices were paid for
thoroughbred hunters bred at Janice r.
Keene's Castleton Stud, In Kentucky.
and three that brought high sums were
sold on cable orders. to be hunted In Eng
land, an instance, at the first glimpse, OF
carrying GOALS to Newcastle. But, as Will
liam Easton said In taking his place In the
auctioneer's box. the seller was known as
one Of the foremost gentleman riders in
England as we'll as in this country, and the
hunters are as well known there as here.
1t was like scene In a sporting drama,
or q paddock on great race day. when
the FIRST hunter. the thoroughbred Prophet,
by Horoscope from the Hermit mare
Royal Num- stood in the ring. Tho gallery.
which extends on three walls Of the mart,
was crowded with women Of social dis
tinction and their escorts In evening dress.
and on the floor, standing ten deep about the
ropes Of the salesring, were turfmen, CROSS
country riders, trainers and men about
town, with tho fringe Of grooms and pal
pably horsey folk who are always present
at such functions.
One group in the gallery included Mr..
and Mrs. Foxhall P. Keene, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Alexandra, Mrs. Il. d. Morgan.
Miss Cynthia Roche, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
Brooks, Mrs. j. +. Smith-Hadden, Miss
Bryce Mrs. Adolph Ladenburg and Charles
Carroll Of Baltimore and Paris, and Joseph
P. Grace. Mrs. Ladenburg bought two
Of the hunters. the bids being made for her
by Messrs. Carroll and Grace.
About the ringside hunt club men wers
especially prominent This contingent in
cluded John r. Townsend, Orange County
Hunt; Vic Mather, Radnor Hunt: p. and O.
Hart, Richmond County Hunt; O. Pfzer.
Essex County Hunt; Joshua Crane, Jr.
and r. G. Shaw. I'd, Myopia Hunt; Peroy
Evans, Warrenton, Va. Hunt; Mcpherson
Kennedy, Harry Case and Daniel Chaun-
oey, Jr.. and many from the Rookaway
Hunt; Louis Batter Bergen County Hunt;
NJ. Ballentine. Radnor Hunt. and T. F.
Clyde of the Brandywine Hunt.
Touching shoulders with them wer
A. Belmont Purdy, the FIRST NJ. F. 81. Of
Meadow Brook; F. Gray Griswold, for
many years q successful holder OF the
same post; H. L. Herbert, Algernon Danger
fleid James I. Burden, ]. G. Cooley, Jr.,
r lawrence Smith Of st. James; JACK
Msd aos1s Eu m s. &eyna Ambasos s
Clark, who carried the bidding along on
several; H. X. Sturgis, Royal Baker, the
H. P. Knut Of Washington, and James T.
while the reason given for the sale was
that Foxhall P. Keene contemplates long
stay abroad, there were rumors about
that in way. family Trouble not unlike
of the family portraits, in The School for
Scandal" was at the back of the matter.
The late arrival Of James r. Keene, who
bid in the friendliest way on some OF the
hunters, and finally bought one Of them,
was taken as a contradiction to the rumors
OF a family arrangement, however, and
added interest to the sale for the gossipers.
Prophet. the first led into the ring, after
being started at 81 600 by r. A: Clark, went
for $4,000 to Capt. Mather Of the Royal
q
gave Mr.. Easton occasion to regret that
this prophet had not more honor IN his
own country:
ards-Rapture, sold to Cyril Simmons OF
Epssas FER Sold NO TO- s. ce cai. foy
81 800. and the next two went to Capt. Ma
ther's bids, respectively Liokpenny. by Ben
Brush-Frugal, at 5000, and Precentor,
by Chorister-Lady Invercauld, half
brother to Conroy the Brooklyn Handicap
winner, at 81 300
The eale Of the four-year-old, described
as BEAUTIFUL fencer, at 20 $50 to c. P. Keveny
of Boston, cleared the way for lot 7, the bay
mare Becky Sharp. by. Montcello-Village
Maid, and vouched for by Foxhal Keene as
"The best / ever rode. in leacestersMre
or here"
Harry s. Page opened the bidding at
a. 900, which was promptly lifted to s. 900
by r. Ambrose Clark, who Ia going to hunt
in England for the first time this winter
Clyde. the Philadelphia, ran the price, to
Sc 600, when Clark came in again with a bid
Of q, SOO Mr.. Easton was about to knock
Becky Sharp to him. when an oher OF $4,000
came from a new quarter and the hunter
became the property OF Roger winthrop
at that price.
Paddy, by Beloxi. sold to R. Lawrence
Smith Tor $3.50, and Monte Lou, supposed to
be sister to Becky Sharp, for 500 to George
Peabody, which cleared up the Castleton
stock.
The remaining were Irish hunters Sc
lected by Percy Maynard Of Meath for
Mr.. Keene last spring. Niger, a grand
looking black. sold to W. Goodby Loew for
81 900; Nugent, for 81 100, to George, Pea
body; Yellowhammer. on Joseph p.
(irace's bid Of $3.50, to Mrs. Ladenburg;
May Queen. for $500. to Charles Carroll;
Grey Leg on Mr. Carroll's bid Of 5000, went
to Mrs. Tadenburg; Fox Catcher, at a bar
gain for 500. to James F. Lord; Nell Gray,
at $3.50, to r. Lawrence Smith, and Spot, by
Esthetic, at 1925, to James r. Keene,
To finish with the horses, II. B. Guthrie
got a pair of 1873 hand carriage horses at
$500, which were worth twice that at least
Edward Kearney secured the trotting road
-. po,ho p.oI[ for the aonp If H1hS and,