116 Tlie Horse- Breeders' Guide and Hand Book. 



MONARCHIST, 



(WINNER OF THE ANNUAL STAKE, 1871, MATURITY STAKE, 1872, AT 

 JEROME PARK, AND METIARIE CUP, AT NEW ORLEANS,) 



Will be located the season of 1883, at the Elmendorf Stud (North Elk- 

 horn), near Lexington, Ky., and will serve mares at the season- 



Application to D. /Swiaert, Muir's Post Office, Ky. 



MONARCHIST by Lexington, son of Boston, bred by A. J. Alexander, Woodburn 

 Stud, Spring Station, Ky., dam Mildred, dam of Minx, Stamps, Sultana, etc., by imp. 

 Glencoe, son of Sultan, out of Levity, Rurie's dam by imp. Trustee, son of Catton. 

 Monarchist is bred to the mark, having in his veins the blood of the best-known racing 

 families. Through Lexington, his sire, he is decended through the best racing 

 strains of this country, from imp. Diomed, the winner of the first English Derby, in 

 1780. Out of his grandam Levity, came Ruric, Lightsome, Brenna, Lever and 

 Legatee all horses of note. Lightsome is the dam of Sprightly (Volturno's dam), 

 by Lexington, and of Nevada, the dam of Luke Blackburn and other good ones. His 

 third dam was the dam of Vandal, a race-horse himself and sire of the great Virgil, first 

 on the list of winning sires in America in 1881, and sire of Hindoo. Monarchist was- 

 himself a good race-horse, as would be expected from such a combination of blood, 

 and has performances to his credit worthy of the best. He made his first appearance 

 in public as a three year old, when he started eight times, and won four races. 

 At Jerome Park, Oct. 14, 1871, he won the Annual Sweepstakes, 2 miles, in. 

 3:53^. Same place, won the Grand National Handicap, 2 miles, in 4:09, 

 Won the Post Stake at New Orleans, two mile heats, in 3 :52$, 3 :49|, beating Foster 

 and Sentinel. As a four-year-old he started nine times and won eight races. At New 

 Orleans, April 13, won the Grand Inaugural Post Stake, two mile heats, in 3:39, 3:44, 

 beating Frank Hampton, Nellie Ransom and three others. Same place, April 16, won 

 Louisiana Stakes, 2 mile heats, in 3:44, 3:40. Same place, won the Metairie Cup 

 2 miles and a quarter, in 4:12, beating -Barney Williams, Nellie Ransom and 

 Wanderer. At Baltimore, Oct. 22, won dash of three miles in 6:01f. Jerome Park, 

 Oct, 2, won Maturity Stakes, three miles, in 5:34, defeating the great Bassett. Oct. 

 12, won dash of 4 miles in 7:33^, beating Harry Bassett and King Henry. This 

 closed the turf career of Monarchist. He was relegated to the stud, and has covered 

 only a very limited number of mares. The best of his get are Little Ruffin, winner 

 of the Tobacco Stakes, at Louisville, Ky., mile heats in l:44f, 1:44|, Fireman (Mon- 

 treal), Marchioness, a mile in 1 :41, Mate, ch. f. Miss. Hardaway, Experiment, Storey, 

 winner of Chicago Stakes, 1 miles, Una B, Josie H (Louise d'Or), Frankie B, win- 

 ner of nine races out of fifteen starts as two-year-old, a mile in 1 :45, and winner of the 

 U. S. Hotel Stake at Saratoga, 1| miles in 2:40, beating Apollo Boatman, etc., IdaB, 

 John Sullivan (Darley), Monte, Monarch, three-quarters of a mile in 1:14, mile 1:44; 

 Green Stakes at Louisville, and Dixie Stakes at Baltimore, 2 miles 3 :44 ; track heavy. 

 Aristocrat, a winner in England. The family is one of the great racing ones of 

 America. The horses have been large winners on the turf, and successful sires, and 

 the mares have almost uniformly been successful and paying investments as brood 

 mares. So if a racing strain is worth anything. Monarchist must be a successful sire 

 with the strong infusion of Archy blood on both sides, and he is much inbred to the 

 great English Eclipse. Monarchist is a beautiful bay, 16 hands, with a large star in 

 his forehead and snip on his nose, both fore and near hind pasterns white, and is almost 

 a finished model of a race-horse, no extra lumber, but clean-cut and highly finished. 

 A little inbreeding from him will serve to perpetuate one of the best racing families- 

 in the world. 



