The Horse- Breeder a* Guide and Hand Boole. 



ATHLETE (Imp.) 



Athlete witt stand the season of 1883 at Kinlock Stud farm near Colum- 

 bia, Boone County, Mo., at $50 the season ; dams of Winners free. 

 Application to be made to J. Lucas Turner, Columbia, Mo. Imported 

 by D. D. Withers, Esq. 



ATHLETE, by Gladiateur, bred by Mr. W. Blenkiron, foaled 1872, dam Rose of Kent 

 dam of Maiden's Blush, Hopbine Spartacus, Kentish Rose. , etc, by Kingston out of Eng- 

 land's Beauty by Birdcatcher. Athlete started in three races at two years old, but was 

 unplaced in all. At three years old ran four limes, won club purse at Jerome Park 

 one mile for maiden three year olds', in 1 :51; track heavy. He ran third to Leander in 

 a handicap for all ages three-quarters of a mile in 1 -21f and was unplaced in the other 

 two races. Gladiateur his sire was the sensational horse of his year and accomplished 

 what no other horse ever did he won the two thousand guineas, Derby and St. Leger, 

 in England, and the Grand Prix de Paris in France in 1865, and the Ascot Gold Cup in 

 1806. Kingston, the sire of his dam, was one of the best and most famous race-horses of 

 his day and was truly bred to stay through his Venison and Defence blood. He was sire 

 of Queen Bertha, winner of the Oaks, and Caractacus, winner of the Derby; Rose of 

 Kent, the dam of Athlete, is own sister to Silverhair the dam of Garterly Bell and 

 Silvio ; the latter won both the Derby and St. Leger in 1877. Athlete is very much 

 inbred to Whalebone through his most popular and successful sons, such as Defence, 

 Moses, Merman, Camel and the great Sir Hercules, and is fortified by the blood of 

 Herod and Eclipse. Athlete is a dark chesnut with a small white stripe down his face 

 from the forehead to the nose and is full 15 hands high. We can scarcely see how 

 he can fail in the stud; no descendant of Old Prunella through pure strains of blood 

 has yet failed to breed winners as evidenced by the success of Whalebone, Whisker, 

 Web, Glencoe and others. Athlete traces six times to old Prunella, three times on side of 

 sire and the same on his dam's side, to the blood of Herod and Eclipse from popular 

 and successful racing sources. 



