88 The Horse- Breeders'* Guide and Hand Book. 



KING ALFONSO, 



(WINNER OF THE KENTUCKY ST. LEGER, TOBACCO STAKES AND 

 GALT HOUSE STAKE AT LOUISVILLE, KY., AND THE LINCK'S 

 HOTEL STAKE AT NASHVILLE, TENN., ALL IN 1875,) 



Will stand the season of 1883 at the Woodburn /Stud, near Spring 

 Station, Ky., A. J. Alexander, proprietor, at $100 the season. 

 Application to L. Brodhead, Spring, Ky. Annual sales of yearlings 

 in May. 



KING ALFONSO by imp. Phaeton, son of King Tom, bred by Warren Viley, Esq., 

 Stonewall Stud, near Midway, Ky., foaled 1872, dam Capitola, dam of Belle Barclay, 

 and Hospodar by Vandal, son of Glencoe out of Margravine, Versaille's dam by imp. 

 Margrave. 



King Alfonso's turf career was short but brilliant ; he made his debut at Lexington, 

 Ky., Sept. 6, 1875, in a sweepstake for three-year olds, one mile and a furlong, 90 Ibs. 

 on each. BobWoolley won in 1:54, the fastest race ever run at the distance ; King 

 Alfonso was a close second, with Katie Pearce, Ten Broeck, Elemi and Redman behind 

 him. Sept. 9, was unplaced in sweepstakes for three-' ear olds, one mile and 5 furlongs ; 

 won by Ten Broeck in 2:49J, the fastest race ever run at that distance to that date, Bob 

 Woollcy being second. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 20, won the Kentucky St. Leger, two 

 miles, in 3:34|, beating Ten Broeck, second ; Verdegris, third ; Geo. Graham, Volti- 

 geur find five others. Same place, Sept. 24, won the Tobacco Stakes, mile heats, for 

 three-year olds, in 1 :44i, 1:45, beating Gyptis, Misdeal and three others. The next 

 day, Sept. 25, won the Gait House Stakes, two mile heats, in 3:34, 3:40, 3:49, beating 

 George Graham, who won the first heat by a head from King Alfonso, the last quarter 

 of the heat being run in 24 seconds, Emma C., Add, and two others. This stamped him 

 not only as a fast, but game horse. He closed the season and his turf career by 

 winning the Linck's Hotel Stakes, at Nashville, mile heats, in 1 :45, l:47f, beating Mis- 

 deal, Asterlite, and three others. He was trained the spring of 1876, when four years 

 old, and showed himself a better horse than ever, but in a very fa^t trial struck his leg 

 and was thrown out of training, and sold to A. J. Alexander and placed in the Wood- 

 burn Stud. 



The family has always, as a racing one, ranked one of the best in America. The 

 Albert Mare produced the famous Tiger Gelding and Black-eyed Susan, a superior race- 

 mare, dam of Dick Singleton, Plato, Mistletoe, Dick Johnson, Catharine, etc. Dick 

 Singletoe defeated the great Collier, four mile heats ; Mistletoe won the match be- 

 tween Kentucky and Tennessee. Mistletoe was the dam of Evergreen, by imp. Glen- 

 coe, who produced Goodwood, Maggiore, Verbena, Glendower and others, and Mar- 

 gravine, the dam of Mary Churchill, Tourist, Capilola, The Grand Dutch S., Ver- 

 sailles, etc. Mary Churchill was the dam of Hamburg, Wade Hampton, winner of 

 the Sequel Stakes at Long Branch and Saratoga in 1872, by Asteroid, and Nettie Viley, 

 she the dam of Conductor, Mirah, etc. The Grand Dutch S. was the dam of Yandell 

 and Lizzie Whips, both fine race nag?. 



King Alfonso is sire of Fonso, winner of the Phoenix Hotel Stakes, 1 miles, in 

 2:10, benting Kinkead, Luke Blackburn and others, and Kentucky Derby, 1 miles, 

 in 2:37|, the fastest it was ever run, with 105 Ibs. Grenada, the winner of the Polo- 

 mac Stakes, 1| miles, in 2:39, and Preakness Stakes, both at Baltimore, Belmont, 

 Jerome and Lorillard Stakes at Jerome Park, Coney Island Derby, at Sheepshead Bay, 

 and Dixie Stakes at Baltimore, 2 miles, in 3:38, winning $32,000, as three-year old. At 

 4 years old, won 4 out of 6 starts. Peyton Handicap at Baltimore, mile heats, in 1 :43, 

 1:43J, 1:471; Oden won second heat. Other winners by him are Quito Lavacca. 

 Dodette, Ladies' Stake, at Chicago. Telemachus, 12 miles, in 2:09i, Go Forth, Al- 

 fambra, May Wilson, Mollie Brown, 5 furlongs in 1:02, Edison, Duke of Montalban, 

 Mary S., Lost Cause, Windrush, 2 miles in 3-33, and again in 3:36^, Bayadere, Bob 

 Johnson, Infanta, winner of Elizabeth Stakes at Long Branch, Issie, winner of Ash- 

 land Oaks, Lexington, Ky., Katie Creel, winner of the Kentucky Oaks at Louisville, 

 H miles, 2:39, and Illinois Oaks, Chicago. Arno, Lady Prewitt, The Judge (Cordova), 

 Lorca, Mary S. , Olivette, Vera, Don Fulana and Golden Gale, raced creditably in 

 England, and Foxhall won two out of three stakes in which he started at two years 

 old, beating the best colts of the year, and giving weight. He won the Grand Prix 

 de Paris in 1881, and is the second horse that ever won the Ccsarewitch and Cam- 

 bridge Handicaps in England in one and the same year. The first was Rosebery, a 

 four-year old, carrying in the Cesarewitch, 103 Ibs., and in Cambridgeshire 117 Ibs. 

 Foxhall, a three-year old, carried in the first 110, and in the latter 126 Ibs., beating 



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