The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-07
HIGH PRICES Are PAID
Thoroughbreds Are Sold Al
Fancy Figures
Fashionable Gatherings at Saratoga
When Aristoeraoy Of Horse Family
Are 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 e. J. Tranter, president of the
Fasig-Tipton Company, Of New York.
The Fasig- Upton Company has uno;S-
puted control of the eastern sales busi-
ness now. 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 a splenddly 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 yearling sales, and especially
those held at night under the glare OF
electric arcs. have become social func-
tions. 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 I'M
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 1913. Two
hundred and seventy-three yearlings
, were led to the auction block in 1917
and they brought total of $3S3,2T5,
an average of $1,404 a head. Sixty
seven horses of racing age brought
S116,1OO, an average Of $1,732.S3 a
head. In 1918 two hundred and thirty
| five thoroughbred yearlings brought
total Of $24S,620. an average of ST.
O57. 96 head nine brood mares fetch
ed S2O,95O, an average Of S2,32I.77 q
head; and 152 horses OF racing age
fetched S20O,S1O. an average of ST.
12112 head.
Run Into Big Money.
More than three-quarters Of a mil
lion Gollars-$S79,21O to be exact-was
realized at the auction block at Sara.
to-a for the thOrOughbreds the Tran
ter Company offered to bidders. Two
hundred and twenty-seven yearlings
brought $6O3,JOO, an average of ST.
65S.5S a head; nineteen brOOdmares
fetched s136300, an average of ST.
, 1859 q head; three stations brought
S21, 800, an average of S7,267, and
, eighty-three horses in training fetched
Silt $40, an average Of Salt. These
r 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,
a son of Ballot. 8. C. Hildreth paid
ST., 500 for Dominique, son of Peter
: Ounce. Hildreth is said to have re-
fused an offer of $15O,OO0 for the three
year-old Purchase. Larry Waterbury,
i successful New York broker, paid
: 10000 for the three-year-Old Sennlngs
t Park. Mr.. Tranter. who keeps close
a watch on the thoroughbred market
generally estimates that some two and
half million dollars will have chang
ed hands in transactions In thorough
bred blood before the first of the year
4 Many horses of various ages will be
v sold in Kentucky this fall.
e 1t was thought that the top limit OF
S American buyers as regards auction
t sales prices was reached in the sum
o mer of 1918 when Mrs. Walter NJ. JET
e fords, of Philadelphia, paid $15,6OO fol
: q French-bred yearling by Sweeper on
of Zuna, which won the Saratoga Spe
Golden Brook when Commander j.
: l.. Ross, of Montreal, paid $14,500 70
. a colt by Black Jester out of Primula
3 and Joseph Il. Widener paid $14,OO
d for son of vulcain and Fairy Col
n which claims Friar Rock, Fair Pla,
IS and Flittergold for half brothers. Blu
Y, this theory has been badly shattered
3, Ten thousand dollars and $4,000 wer
common prices for good lookin
thoroughbreds last August. A breede
Offering a youngster that looked like
=. thoroughbred, and boosted of a fai
10 pedigree who failed to get from $500
l. to $4,000 for his stuff went back t
S, Kentucky or Virginia utterly disguised
= A Few Big Prices.
W. v. Thraves, vlrginian, who
about to embark on a-thoroughbre
producing enterprise at Long Ridg
y Farm In Fayette county, KY, pal
!, $24,5OO for a yearling son of Ultimu
& offered by John Oliver Keene. Con
mander Ross paid $4,000 for an in
ported son of SINISTER and Maria
n al