Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-29
HIGH PRICES ARE PAID.
Ihoroughbreds Arc Sold Al
Fancy Figures
Fashionable Gatherings at Saratoga
When ArIstooracy Of Horse Family
~ q Ara Placed on the Block.

An astonishing expansion Of the
thoroughbred horse sales business and
an amazing increase in thoroughbred
values Is revealed In the cast up Of
the eastern traffic In running horse
stock for the fiscal year ending August
81. by r. J. Tranter. president Of the
Faslg-Tipton Company, Of New York.
The Faslg- Upton Company has undts-
puted control Of the eastern sales bust.
ness how. And the sales In so far as
thoroughbred yearlings offered In the
eastern market are concerned are held
mainly in the month Of August and
conducted In splendidly appointed
establishment built by Mr.. Tranter
three or four seasons back after the
best European models, but with certain
American establishments. Everybody
who. is anything In the thoroughbred
world, or ever hopes to be. fiocks to
Saratoga In August. The thorough
bred yearllng sales, and especially
those held at night under the glare Of
electric arcs, have become social func-
TONS Men never think Of going out
to. the night sales from. the palatial
Cottages and the great hotels save In
evening, dress, Women attend them
invariably in evening dress, or un-
dress, according to ones point Of view.
The best appreciation Of the expan-
sion Of the thoroughbred auction sales
business and OF the increase In tho
ronghbred values is to be obtained by
comparing the records Of 1919 with
the; records of 191T and 1918. Two
hundred, and seyenfy-three yearlings
were led to the auction block In 1917
and they brought total Of S3s3,275.
an average Of 1,404 a head. Sixty
seven horses Of racing age brought
$116, 100; an average Of $1,732.S3 a
Head. In 1918 two hundred and thirty.
1--WE thoroughbred yearllngs brought u
total Of $24S,82O. an average of ST.
05T 90 a head; nine brood mares fetch
ed S20,950, an average Of $2,32LT
head and 152 horses of racing age
fetched S200s10. an average of ST.
82112 a head,
Run Into Big Money.
More than three-quarters of mill
lion dollars--sS79.2 $40 to be exact-was
realized at the auction block at Sara.
tbsa for the. thoroughbreds the Tran
ter Company offered to bidders. Two
hundred. and twenty.sevens yearlings
brought s603. 500. an. average of 81
6583S a head; nineteen broodmares
fetched s13s,30O, an average of ST.
113.89.a head three stations brought
$2l;S0O, an average Of $7,267, and
eighty.thrce horses In training fetched
&117 1910, an average Of All. These
figures relate merely. to, the auction
sales business Many horses of varl-
Gus, ages have. been bought and sold
priyateiy. Montford Jones paid $4,000
In, June for. the 2-year.old Brookholt,
d son Of Ballot s, c. Hildreth paid
sf7,5bo For, Dominudps a son of Peter
Qulncs Hlldreth is Said to have re-
fused AN offer OF $4,000 for the three
Jear-oid Purchase. Larry Waterbury,
4 successful; New York broker, paldl
$4,000 for the three year-eld -Sennings
Park. Mr. Tranter, who keeps close
watch on the thoroughbred market,
generally estimates that some two and
q half million dollars will have chang.
ed lands In transactions In thorough
bred blood before the first of the year.
Many horses of various ages will be
sold In Kentucky this fall.
1t was thought that the top limit Of
American buyers as regards auction
sales prices was reached In the sum-
mer of 1918 when Mrs Walter NJ. JET.
fords, of Philadelphia, paid $4,000 for
a French-bred yearling by Sweeper out
Of Zuna, which won the Saratoga Spe-
cial In August under the name of
Golden Brook when Commander J. X.
L. Ross, of Montreal, paid $4,000 for
q colt by Black Jester out of Primuln,
and Joseph L. Widener paid $4,000
for a son of Vulcan and Fairy Gold |
which claims Frlar Rock, Fair Play |
and Flittergold for half brothers. But
this theory has been badly shattered.
Ten thousand dollars and $4,000 were
common prices for good looking
thoroughbreds last August. A breeder
offering youngster that looked like
thoroughbred and boosted Of fair
pedigree who failed to get from $1,000
to, $1,000 for his stuff went back to
Kentucky or Virginia utterly disguised.
AFew Big Prices.
W. v. Thraves, q. .virginian, who Is
about to embark on thoroughbred
producing enterprise at Long Ridge
Farm In Fayette county, KY, paid
$24,500 for yearling son of Ultimus
offered by John Oliver Keene. Com
mander Ross paid $4,000 for an I'M
ported son Of SINISTER. and Marian
Hood. Philip I. Chinn. acting for Mr..
Waterbury. paid $22,5OO for son Of
Celt and Sand Dune that claims the
Splinter The Boy for half brother, w.
r. Coe paid $4,000 for brown son of
Celt and Patricia w. Commander
Ross paid $4,000 for Melody, a brood
mare by Meddler out of Ballantrae,