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Show HORSEMAN WILL NOT BET ON HORSE RACE John Madden, Noted Breeder, Has Never Made Wager. For Many Years Kentuckian Has Been Leader of Trotting and Thoroughbred Thor-oughbred Ovals Interested in Every Line of Sport. Could you practically live on a race track and never bet a single cent? Could you develop and sell race horses and never bet a cent to back them up? Could you race a race horse and still never bet on him? It is not impossible. John Edward Madden, the most famous and leading breeder and racer of thoroughbred race horses on the American continent, does all of this, and still more. He has a farm at Lexington, 2,000 acres of the finest blue grass land He has other large interests and pos sesses a large fortune but not on cent of this has ever been made through betting on race horses, not withstanding horses he himself hac bred for winning. fancy to the trotting horse. He cam to Lexington in 1883, and from thai time to this has been the leader of th trotting and thoroughbred ovals. His first "big" buy was in 18S9 when he paid $10,100 for Suisan, trot ting mare, and in 1890 he paid $33,25! for Robert McGregor, famous trottiii) sire. Madden has a lot of sentiment fo. his horses. He heard that Nanc; Hanks, trotting mare, was for sale He immediately bought her and gav her a home on the blue grass of hi' farm, and the day she arrived Maddei issued invitations to numerous friend-for friend-for a reception in honor of Nanc; Hanks. Madden has established a cemeter; on his farm for horses that have be longed to him. It is arranged withii a stone wall built in the form of i horseshoe. Within the inclosure are monument to Nancy Hanks, Hamburg and other whose deeds have added luster to tin annals of the turf. Madden always sells a horse whei his price is met. He loves the flea animals, but selling horses that he hai developed is his business. He does noi like to see them leave him, but as hi has always said : "I had rather sel and regret than keep and regret." He retains his interest in every lim of sport, and no event of unusual in terest in sports has been missed bl him in 40 years. But stiil he will nd bet on a race horse. |
