New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-20
Sale Will Occur at EImen-
dorf Farm, in Kentucky,
on October %.
MARKS AN EPOCH IN
BREEDING INDUSTRY
Late Owner Was One of Most
Important Figures In Thor
oughbred World for Years.

The racing season Of 1915 will be
marked by the disappearance from the
breeding industry of America Of the
thoroughbred stud OF the late James
Ben Ali Haggin. On October 20 the
last of the stations and mares brought
together by the last of the picturesque
forty-niners in the evening Of mis- long
and active life will ve knocked down
to the highest bidder.
The great establishment made famous
by the exploits on the racetracks Of three
color and Waterboy, Africander, Golden
Maxim, Briar Sweet, Tradition, Ham
burg Belle, Hessian and Yellow Tail
will become a memory. The stations
Ballot, Sain and Hessian, with sixty
eight broodmares and thirty one wean-
lings. are the lot advertised to 20 under
the hammer, and it will require a. full
day to dispose Of them.
The PowersHunter Company, Of New
York, will conduct the sale at Elmen-
dorf Farm, an 8,000-acre Blue Grass es-
tate, near Lexington, KY, which,
$4,000, 900 or thereabouts. Mr.. Haggin
purchased it piece by piece after he de-
cded to give up breeding racehorses
in California. 1t will be an oldfash-
toned sale, with all the picturesque
features that pertain to such an event,
and it will attract to Lexington the
greatest crowd of horse folk that the
Blue Grass capiptal has been called up
on TO entertain in quarter of a
century.
1t is the intention Of Mr.. Haggin's
heirs, it is said, to make a clean sweep
at Elmendorf. After the thoroughbreds
are sold the other livestock will be dis
posed of, and the sale of the sheep,
cattle and hogs will be followed by the
sale of the farm itself II purchaser
can be found for an estate so vast. Mr..
Haggin left many millions when he
died, a year ago last spring, but no
heir of his own blood seems sufficiently
interested in thoroughbreds to keep his
famous nursery going.
The disappearance Of the Haggin
stud will be epochal in the history Of
the thoroughbred industry and of rae
ing in the United States. For from
the early COS until 1910 and 1911, Mr..
Haggin was the greatest breeder Of
thoroughbreds in the world. He i'm
ported from England and the antipodes
the celebrated stations Watercress,
Goldfnch, Darebin, Sir Modred, Golden
Garter, Star Ruby, Prestonpans, Tod
dington, Dieudonne, Greenan, Rapallo,
Bassetlaw, St. Andrew and others, and
scores Of highly bred mares, and from
these racers and from horses Of pure
ly American breeding he developed and
marketed more race horses than all the
other breeders In this country COM
bined. Moreover, he sent his stock to
every country in which horse racing
finds favor 70 spread the renown OF
the American thoroughbred.
Between 1894 and 1908 Mr. Haggin
maintained from 800 to 1000 stations
and mares on n 30,000-acre ranch In
California known as the Rancho del
Paso stud, and from 1897 to 1912 there
were from 100 to 800 stations and
mares at Elmendorf, which he began
to organize in 1897 by purchasing the
old Swigert farm, on which his equine
marvels, Salvador and Firenze, had
been bred.
During the last six years of the ex-
istence of the Rancho del Paso stud he
annually marketed through the sales
companies of New York some 800 or
$50 yearlings, while many more OF his
horses were disposed OF in private
deals.
Rancho del Paso was abandoned in
1905 when Lloyd Tevis, Higgins part
ner in the ownership of the real estate,
died. and the stations and mares,
which constituted the breeding stud,
were sold at auction. Mr.. Haggin pur-
chasing the most desirable for service
at Elmendcrf
There we're upward Of $50 mares and
80 or more stations at Elmendorf
when Governor Hughes put through
his anti-racing laws in 1908 and 1910,
and Mr.. Haggin, realizing that it would
be impossible to market in this country
the produce of stud so considerable
without racing about New York 70
maintain the demand for young stock,
began TO ship his thoroughbreds to
other countries.
The Haggin yeariings went 70 Eng
land and France for seven seasons, and
stations and mares TO the Argentine
Republic. and mares to France, England
and Germany. The Argentine secured
the famous stations Kinley Mack, win
ner of the Brooklyn and Suburban
Handbags Of 1900; Africander. the
greatest three-yesr- old OF his time;
NcChesney, Gerolstein, First Water,
Reliable, Dieudonne and two or three
others. and England. France and the
central empires OF Europe got some OF
their best producing mares from Ell
mendorf.
but while they were cutting the thor
oughbred stud at Elmendorf down 20
stable proportions, Mr. Haggin and
his advisers, John Mackey and Charles
II. Bergman, were careful to reserve
the stoutest stock against q time when
il would be worth while 10 breed great
race horses again in this country. Ana
il is this selected stock that VIII go
under the hammer in October.
Mr.. Haggin bought Ballot three years
ago 10 take the place OF Watereress
end Goldfnch. and Sain to take the
place of Waterboy, the first named
having succumbed 10 the infrmities OF
age. and the younger horse having died
suddenly after giving promise OF quail
ity as sire that made him worthy to
succeed his daddy.
To obtain Ballot Haggin had 20 put
M the biggest price given for an Amer
lean thorough bred stallion since Louis
Winans paid SIS. 700 for Sir Martin, IN
1908. But he got the greatest OF the
sons Of Voter and better horse than
Voter was himself For Ballot won
eighteen races. with a total value OF
t15i. SOP in the course OF his four
ears experience as a race horse in this
country and in Great Britain, the Great
Repubiic. Advance. Equality and Cent
tuyr Stakes (the last named race twice.
and the Suburban Handicap among
them Sain is famous as the sire OF
Jack Akin and Neslon. and Hessian Is
A Young son Of Watercress. out OF CO.
lonial.
Among the sixty-eight brood mares
that will have new homes after the
~ Heaaiau.