. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1883 £hc Ifrjccclev and j^povtsmau. California comes to the front in the East also as a superior market just at present for that now nnasnally high Kentucky product, the thoroughbred horse. Happening right on the heels of the large prices obtained for Ty- rant and other yearlings from Mr. J. B. Hag- gins, of Sacramento, the purchases of the late Eeber sale by John Mackey, of San Francisco, manager for Air. Haggin, have created no lit- tle stir in the turf community at large as out- lining the probable large scale of operations of the gentleman abov-e named. Mr.
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1883 £hc Ifrjccclev and j^povtsmau. California comes to the front in the East also as a superior market just at present for that now nnasnally high Kentucky product, the thoroughbred horse. Happening right on the heels of the large prices obtained for Ty- rant and other yearlings from Mr. J. B. Hag- gins, of Sacramento, the purchases of the late Eeber sale by John Mackey, of San Francisco, manager for Air. Haggin, have created no lit- tle stir in the turf community at large as out- lining the probable large scale of operations of the gentleman abov-e named. Mr. Haggins' immense ranch near Sacramento, California, will be stocked with the best in the market, and his training stable in Kentucky will be situated for the present at T. J. Megibben's Edgewater Stock Farm, in charge of the well- known trainer, J. H. McCreery. Accounts from Lancaster represent the California "boom" as carrying all before it,many turfmen from various sections, who had intended to buy certain of the lots offered at a (to them) reasonable limit finding their figures away be- low the prices obtained. Byron McClelland, trainer of W. L. Soott's horses at Erie, Penn- sylvania, got left each time he made a bid, his limit being reached in short order, and after he had got down from his perch, and gone through this ptrformauce several times, he observed that "it was not a good day for him to buy horses, after ; Johnny Hyland,the mentor of the Preakness stable, had eight lots down to buy when he left New Jersey for Ohio, but though he went just $1,000 higher than his limit on Lady Middleton, the Cali- fornian fairly outstayed him. He, finally however, got'three of his intended purchases, for the yearling sister to Bonnie Lizzie, pay- ing just $925 higher than his reserve price. Kyrle Daly was a well-sold horse at $S,300, most persons would think, though in this new era of racing, where speed seems to be the desideratum im most quarters, this qua
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