42 The Horse- Breed erg* Guide and Hand Book. 



FALSETTO, 



(WINNER OF THE PHCEN1X HOTEL STAKE AT LEXINGTON, CLARK 

 STAKE AT LOUISVILLE, TRAVERS AND KENNER STAKES AT SARA- 

 TOGA, N. Y., ALL IN 1879). 



Will stand the season of 1883 at the Wbodburn Stud, A. J. Alexander 

 proprietor, near Spring Station, Ky., at $50 the season. Application 

 to L. Brodhead, Spring Station. Annual sales of yearlings in May. 



FALSETTO, by Enquirer, son of imp. Leamington, bred by the late Col. J. W. Hunt 

 Reynolds, Fleetwood Stud, Ky., foaled 1876, dam Farfaletta, dam of Felicia, Fortuna, 

 t:tc., by imp. Australian, out ot Elkhorna, dam of Elkhorn Arcturus, etc., by Lexing- 

 ton. Leamington, Enquirer, Australian and Lexington, all noted horses covering the 

 first four crosses of the blood of Falsetto, are to be found in this book. His dam, Far- 

 faletta, has never produced any thing but good ones. Felicia and Fortuna were both 

 good race mares and creditable performers. Falsetto made his maiden effort at Lex- 

 ington, Ky., May 10, first day of the Spring meeting, in Phoenix Hotel Stakes, 1J 

 miles. Falsetto, never having started before, was ignored in the betting. Trinidad, 

 Ada Glenn and Lilly R., were the three favorites. Ten horses started, Falsetto won, 

 defeating Ada Glenn by a neck, Scully a good third, Trinidad, Lily R., Hamadan, 

 Wissahickon, Bucktie, Bailey and Black Hills unplaced; time, 2:08f. Falsetto's 

 second appearance was at Louisville, Ky., May 20, in the Kentucky Derby, 1 miles ; 

 he ran second to Lord Murphy, suffering his first and only defeat. Strathmore, 

 Trinidad, Ada Glenn, One Dime, Gen. Pike, Bucktie and Wissahickon also started ; 

 time of race, 2:37. Same place, May 27, won the Clark Stakes, 2 miles, defeating 

 Bucktie, Trinidad, Mary Ann, Gen. Pike, Borak and Wissahickon ; time, 3:40. Fal- 

 setto, with his stable companions, was sent to Saratoga at the conclusion of the Louis- 

 ville meeting, and had nearly two months in which to rest and prepare for their en- 

 gagements at that point. Saratoga, July 19, he met the hitherto invincible Spend- 

 thrift, also Harold, Jericho and Dan Spading, in the Travers Stakes, If miles. The 

 history of the race is too well known to require repetition here. Falsetto won ; 

 Spendthrift was second, Harold third; time, 3:09, a very fast race for the track. 

 While not detracting in the least from Falsetto's magnificent performance, it is safe to 

 say that, Spendthrift was not himself, as his wonderful race for the Lorillard Stakes, at 

 Jerome Park, June 10, amply proved. Saratoga, Aug. 12, won the Kenner Stakes, 2 

 miles, defeating Spendthrift, Jericho, Monitor and Harold; time, 3:35J. Total win- 

 nings in his three-year old year form, $18,275. Falsetto was then purchased and sent 

 to England by Mr. P. Loritlard, lie paying $18,000 for him ; giving away in one of 

 his legs in his preparation, he was returned to America and sold to the Woodburn 

 Stud. Falsetto is from one of the great racing families of America, his dam. grandam 

 and great grandam were handled but little, but all have produced winners ; Mary 

 Morris, his fifth dam, was a fine race-mare at all distances, and was the dam of the two 

 tine race horses, Wild Irishman and Frankfort; her dam was the great grandam of Pa- 

 role, and from the same blcod in a direct line sprang Rattler, Cbilders and Sumpter, all 

 good race-horses and stallions. Flirtilla, by Sir Archy, was out of the same family, 

 and from her came Ringgold, the sire of Onward and Delaware. The imported Cub 

 Mare, from which all this stock emanated, was out of Amaranthus, dam by Second, and 

 they trace through popular racing families of England to the Layton Barb Mare. 

 Falsetto, has four of the best racing strains in this country to begin with, and his 

 blood is pure through a long line of distinguished horses ; if racing lineage is worth 

 anything, Falsetto must make a successful sire. He is inbred to Lexington, and has 

 the Waxy blood on both sides, from Whalebone, winner of the Derby in 1810, to 

 Whisker, winner in 1815, and his son Memnon, sire of Envoy, won the St. Leger in 

 1825. He is also very strongly inbred to Diomed through Lexington, Am. Eclipse 

 andGabriella. Falsetto is a brown, stands 16 hands f of an inch higb, with a blaze in 

 his face and snip on the nose, and four white ankles. He is a grand-looking horse, 

 without any surplus lumber, ami can scarcely fail in the stud. If he is bred to Lex ing. 

 ton mares or the daughters of Lexington mares through racing strains he will not fail. 



