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people ever knew that he owned the great horses he was 

 racing. Always a broad-gauge and public spirited man, he 

 bought any horse offered for sale without considering the 

 cost. In Lexington now there is no man whose advice is 

 more sought after and who stands higher among the peo- 

 ple. Everybody likes him and he likes everybody, I want 

 to write on his tombstone, when he is gathered to his fath- 

 ers and his gentle soul has gone to its rest in the darkness 

 of eternity : " Here lies a man who was beloved by all who 

 knew him." He owned many good horses. 



Milton Young is one of the most distinguished men in 

 all Kentucky. He owned the great Hanover and started 

 out with Bootjack, Bancroft and others, and won nearly all 

 the cups across the western country. Troubadour was bred 

 and owned by Mr. Young, but he has bred hundreds of 

 others that have acquired fame on the turf. He is one of 

 the fairest and squarest breeders whom I have ever known. 

 I am proud to call him my friend. There are hundreds of 

 incidents that I could relate concerning his liberality, and 

 when the Three Graces bow before him in the land beyond 

 the sky Charity will take off her crown and bow politely 

 to the prince of all Kentuckians. 



John E. Madden is now one of the representative turf- 

 men of Kentucky. He owns the famous Hamburg Place 

 and has vast interests. It is said of Madden that he came 

 to Lexington with scarcely anything, but by energy and en- 

 terprise he forged to the front and has owned such notables 

 as the mighty Hamburg and a host of others. Scarcely a 

 year has passed recently that Madden has not been able to 

 bring out a grand horse and sell him for a good price. Mr. 

 Madden is of Irish parentage, although he came from Penn- 

 sylvania, that good old Dutch State. He is a man of pow- 

 erful physique, gentle in his manners when in a good humor, 

 but a lion when aroused. Concerning his horses he is as 

 reticent as the private cemetery of a deaf and dumb asylum, 

 and he is said to give all his horses numbers, so that even 

 the stable boys do not know the names of the horses they 

 are exercising. But withal, Mr. Madden is a clever fellow, 

 whom it is a sincere pleasure to meet. 



Price McGrath, known as the Prince of McGrathiana, 

 was one of the men about Lexington who should not be 



