Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-01-21 | Page 4 | American Racing Sure to Miss Madden

AMERICAN RAGING RACING SURE TO MISS MADDEN Most Notable Figure of the Turf Retires After Amassing F Fortune FortuneT HEl American turf is losing a real T THE pillar r with the retirement of ot John E. E Madden owner of or Hamburg Place Lexington Ky A group of seventy eight brood mares and nearly as as many r will be disposed of ot via the auction block at Hamburg Place to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow January 22 constituting one of ot the greatest sales ever held In this country by a private owner i There have been more f famous owners owners owners' than Madden arid and there have be been n more popular horsemen but there has never been a more notable figure in the running running running run run- ning horse game in this country StartIng Starting Start- Start Ing ng from poverty near Madden has amassed a fortune of ot several millions from the horse game and not a single penny penn of It was gained through the bettin bet bet- tin ting ring Madden was first last and all the time a horse trader Endowed with wonderful ability to recognize the possibilities possibilities of a running horse the owner of beautiful Hamburg Place has purchased many youngsters at almost give away prices and later see them rise to dizzy heights of fame either a as speeders ders or producers when he would unload th them m or fabulous sums Maddens Madden's career reads like a chapter from Arabian Nights In his youth he was a prize fighter h foot racer a and mot most any other tE zek kind of al t who oa stood odo a chance to get some action Madden was one of ot those unsettled youngsters who i craved action and also craved results Until un until until un- un til he got them Because of ot his brusk I I manner he succeeded In getting the enmity of many of the blue bloods of but Invariably they have re returned returned returned re- re turned to him because his success has always been brilliant and sometimes sen sen- The Madden brood mares to to be sold are said to be the most select lot to be found on one plant In this country The yearlings too are a II choice group being sired by such headliners as Friar Rock Star Shoot Ogden Plaudit The Finn Tea Caddy and numerous I II others Madden says when he has disposed dis- dis posed of or his' his stock he will settle down downto I to o enjoy the be beauties of ot Hamburg Place His sons will continue in the light harness har hal ness sport John E E. E Madden is one man who has made hi his fortune out of ot the racing game game and and he is isone one of or very few