The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-12-30
HIGH PRICES ARE PAID
Fashionable Gatherings at Saratoga
When Aristooracy Of Horse Family
Are Placed on the Block.


values is revealed in the cast up of
the eastern traffic In running horse
stock for the fiscal year ending August
81, by e. J. Tranter, president of the
Fasig-Tipton Company, Of New York.
The Fasig-Tipton Company has undis-
prtad control Of the eastern sales husi-
ness now. And the sales in so far as
thoroughbred yearlings offered in the
ea stern market ere 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, focks to
Saratoga in August. The thorough
bred yearling 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 UNI
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
roughbred values is to be obtained by
comparing the records of 1919 with
the records of 1917 and 1918. Two
hundred and seventy-three yearlings
were led to the auction block in 1917
and they brought a total of $3S3,275,
an average of S1,404 a head. Sixty
seven horses of racing age brought
$116,100, an average Of S1,T32.S3
head In 1918 two hundred and thirty
five thoroughbred yearlngs brought y
total of S24S,620, an average of Sis
057.96 head; nine brood mares fetch
ed S20,950, an average Of S2,327.7 a
head and 152 horses of racing age
fetched $200,S1O, an average of ST.
S21.12 head.
Run Into Big Money.
More than three-quarters of mil
lion dollats-$ST9,21 0 TO be exact-was
realized at the auction block at Sara
tosa for the thoroughbreds the Tran
ter Company offered to bidders. Two
hundred and twenty-seven yearlings
brought $603,500, an average of So.
65S.5S a head; nineteen broodmares
fetched $136,300, an average of ST.
1880 head; three stations brought
S21,S00, an average of $7.267, and
observation-disclosures in training fetched
S117,6 $40, an average of $1,417. These
figures relate merely to the auction
sales business. Many horses of vari-
Gus ages have been bought and sold
privately. MOntfOrd Jones paid $4,000
in June for the 2-year-old Brookholt,
son Of Ballot. s. c. Hildreth paid/
$500 for Dominique, a son of PetefC
Ounce. Hildreth is said to have VI st
fused an offer of $780, 900 for the thy
year-old Purchase. Larry WaterK, g
n successful New York broker r.
$4,000 for the three-year-old SeTleS Nv
Park. Mr.. Tranter, who keeps 80 l.
watch on the thoroughbred ~, OF
a half million dollars will ~ sn"
ed hands in transactions Doious" . III
bred blood before the firsR vii, ho
Many horses of varlous/e' wa w
sold in Kentucky this f3. - h,
1t was thought that s1p ,,,nI NM, " =.
American buyers as ",u' "ue''o" "
sales prices was res[u ~ l"e sum, :
mer of 1918 when " water ger No. ~, 'ei
fords, of Philadelpy p"'S Tlo'ooo ioi
a French-bred Yeas os sweeper ou'
of Zuna, which VI the Saratoga spe, "
clal in .Apgust hder the name OF N
Colden Rrool, zen Commander J. X IN
noss 80 nt2real, paid $4,000 for M
!. oo,t ~, p,o 7Jester out of Primula, n
ond Io.anh7 Widener paid $4,000 IN
Sar son Wulcain and Fairy Gold N
which cla Friar Rock Fair Play
and Flittbld for half brothers. But IN
fh,s tho 7 has been badly shattered
Han th and dollars and $4,000 were E
oon,n,Z prices for good looking IN
ar, 1breds last August A breeder
oeaf youngster that looked like II
en- Ighbred and boosted of a fair N
ma "hp W SGT lloin 9DOV |
!, 5000 for his stuff went back to n
1tucky or Virginia utterly disguised N
A Few Big Prices. N
W. V. Thraves, Virginian. who Is
out to embark on thoroughbred
enterprise at Long Ridge N
I'm in Fayette county, Ky, paid "a
1000 for yearling son of Ultimus N
cred by John Oliver Keene. Com q
nder Ross paid $4,000 for an i'm. =,
rted son of SINISTER and Marian
cd. Philip 4. Chinn, acting for Mr.. ~
'terbury paid $4,000 for son of :
Il and Sand Dune that claims the Z
inter The Boy for half brother, w.
Coe paid $4,000 for brown son of Z
Il and Patricia ~. Commander
SIS paid $4,000 for Melody, a brood (
re by Meddler out of Ballantrae, ;
Il was offered at the dispersal sale I