The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-03
WILL Be NO CONTEST
w. c. Whitney's viii Stands
as Written.
STATE ABOUT S2O,OO0,OOO
Harry Payne Whitney viii
DiSband Racing Stable.

Eew York. March 2.-The World says:
Bronson Winthrop, counsel FOR the
Whitney family, denied positively yester-
day that there was any probability OF the
will of William c. Whitney being contest
ed by either Payne Whitney or Mrs. Al
meric Paget, who were given only one
tenth each of the estate. while Harry
Payne Whitney was given five-tenths. and
Dorothy Whitney. the younger daughter.
was given three-tenths. He said neither
Mrs. Paget nor Payne Whitney had indi-
Gated dissatisfaction or the slightest de-
sire to contest the will.
Almeric Hugh Paget has sailed from
the other side and will arrive here the
middle of next week. According TO cable
advices he will hold a conference with his
wife, Payne Whitney and their advisers
relative to the will Mr.. Paget is said to
be dissatisfied with the share given his
wife. but according TO friends Of the fam
fly there is no disposition on the part Of
either Mrs. Paget or Payne Whitney to
attempt to break the will nthe courts.
1t was declared yesterday by a man
whose position made him familiar with
the affairs Of Mr. Whitney that the estate
Mrs Paget and Payne Whitney would get
500 go each.
Though Harry Payne Whitney is I'M
prepared at this time to make any de-
tailed statement. because all of his plans
have not been worked out, it is his pur
pose to disband the great racing stable
established by his father by selling prac-
tically all Of the active horses in training,
including a large number of. two-year-
olds.
In all about one hundred horses will be
sold His present plan is to have an auc-
ton sale the latter part of May or the first
part Of June. But if the details can be
perfected the sale will take place at an
earlier date. The horses to be sold cost
Mr. Whitney about 100000.
Young Mr. Whitney, the new head of
the family and the sole executor of and
trustee of the large estate, has decided
that il would be unwise TO submit the es-
tate TO the great expense of maintaining
the immense stable, in view Of the fact
that he does not intend to do any racing
for at least a year, as a mark or respect
to the memory of his father. He expects
to take up the sport again next year.
Young Mr. Whitney's decision to sell
out does not mean that he has retired
permanently from the turf. Nor does it
mean that his interest in teh thorough
bred will be less than it has always been.
He intends TO maintain and continue on
the same splendid scale the great breed
ing farm near Lexington, Ky, which has
produced many of the most famous racers
of recent years and which has a collection
of eighty brood mares which cost the
elder Whitney nearly three-quarters of a
million. On this farm are five stations
with almost unbeaten records for produc-
Ing winners. One of these is the great
Hamburg. for which Mr.. Whitney paid
$50 600. and another is the almost equally
famous Meddler.
The collection of brood mares. however
IS regarded Of greater value than the stall
lions Mr.. Whitney selected nearly every
one of them personally and was particular
To send to his farm only those with splen-
did records as winners
At considerable expense Mr.. Whitney
had compiled sortly before his death
stud book giving the racing history of
every one of the mares on the farm.
This showed that the eighty mares ran
I'm 40 races. an average Of about thir
tN-tWO Tor -edCn mare. me tAb dpiulll-
arv part of their racing careers was,
however. that then won an average Of
q per cent of their starts and were
placed in 80 per cent of the total num-
Der Of races
Young Mr. Whitney's confidential ad
wiser. in speaking Of the Kentucky farm
yesterday said in explanation of the
young mans decision not to part with
Il:
1t would take five years at least and
an enormous sum of money 20 fet to-
gether anything like the collection of
brood mares on the farm. 1t is very
doubtful il such a mass of class in the
race-horse meaning of the term. could
ever be got together again. 1T is GER
tainly the most wonderful group Of rae
ing horsefiesh in this country, if not in
the world
The Whitney horses are scattered over
the country Most of them are at Aiken.
S. G.. in charge of Trainer Rogers. and
Madden in Kentucky. Few of the horses
which raced last year with great sue
cess will he retained Young Mr. Whit
ney has decided to keep only Irish Lad.
which was his own horse: Yankee which
is stallion. and those Of the active
racers which were entered in stake events
prior TO December II. 1899. Engagements
made after that date become void by
the death of the owner according 10 a
rule Of the Jockey club.
None of the Whitney horses which
will be raced this season. however, VIII
run in the Whitney colors. but in those
of their trainer John w. Rogers
There are no horses in England belong
ing TO the Whitney estate. Mr. Whitney
abandoned his English stable eight
months ago. selling some of the horses
and bringing others notably Nasturtium.
back TO this country.
Many Of the horses that will be put I'M
der the hammer are untried e-year-olds-
There are fully forty Of these The ma
5ority Of those which will be auctioned.
however. are horses which have faced the
starters flag
None of the driving. coach, carriage and
saddle horses used by Mr.. whitney VIII
b. oslo al the auction Of the racing stock.
though some OF them will probably he dis
posed Of at private sale. There arc sixty
horses which The Whitney family used
for pleasure. Most OF these are quarter
ed In the big stables at westbury, /. I.
While IT was admitted yesterday that
IN distributing his estate Mr. Whitney
was doubtless influenced by The opposi-
ton 10 his second marriage made by his
daughter. Mrs Paget. and by Payne
Whitney. il was declared by one Of his
friends that even had these differences