Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — MADDEN DECIDES TO RETIRE [ARTICLE]

MADDEN DECIDES TO RETIRE

To Forsake Breeding of Thoroughbreds and Devote His Time to Producing Trotters. John E. Madden has decided to retire from breeding thoroughbreds and will devote his time to farming and producing trotters at Hamburg Place, Lexington, Ky. He has been identified with the latter since the eighties, the gray gelding Class Leader, half brother to Pilot Medium, being one of his first horses. He is now racing Dagastan and Periscope, both of which are by his horse Sillko, In the Grand circuit.