134 The Horse- Breeders* Guide and Hand Book. 



RAYON D'OR (Imp.) Continued. 



Cremorne, the Derby winners of 1871 and 1872. He ran second to Uhlan in Brighton 

 Cup; won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes at Newmarket First October Meeting; won 

 a free handicap sweepstakes across the flat, and the Jockey Club Cup at the New- 

 market Houghton Meeting. As a four-year-old he ran second to Boiard twice in> 

 France; won the Claret Stakes at Newmarket, England; was second to Boiard in the 

 Gold Cup, and third to King Lud and Boiard in the Alexandra Plate, both at Ascot. 

 This closed his turf career. Plutus, his sire, was unplaced in the Derby of 1866, but 

 won some races and ran creditably in others. 



Araucaria, Rayon d'Or's dam, was the dam of Camelia, winner of the 1,000 guineas, 

 and ran a dead heat and divided the Oaks Stakes with Enguerrande. Chamant, by 

 Mr. Lorillard's Mortemer, out of Araucaria, won the Middle Park Plate and the Dew- 

 hurst Plate in England at two years old, and at three won the 2,000 guineas. The 

 blood on the sire side is a combination of Touchstone through Orlando, a Derby win- 

 ner, Bay Middleton, son of Sultan, a Derby winner, Venison and Glencoe, through 

 Darkness, a winner of the Ascot Stakes. On the dam's side Touchstone, St. Leger 

 winner, Priam, Derby winner, and Glencoe, through Pocahontas, dam of Stockwell, 

 Rataplan, King Tom, etc. An analysis of the tabulated pedigree will show that he 

 is richly and fashionably bred; he has a double cross of Glencoe, a triple cross of 

 Diomed, a double cross of Touchstone, fortified by the blood of Whalebone, doubled 

 in upon the Herod and Eclipse blood on both sides to the Byerly Mare, dam of the 

 Two True Blues. Rayon d'Or is probably the most magnificent specimen of his race 

 ever imported. He is the highest-priced horse ever shipped across the Atlantic. His 

 cost delivered at his home is little short of $40,000. In color he is a rich true chest- 

 nut, with a large, rather faint, star in his forehead, standing 16 hands, 3 inches in 

 height. He has a beautiful head, very broad between the eyes, with a very fine, clean 

 and tapering ear; neck long, but broad where it enters the head; shoulders well set and 

 broad, with great depth of girth; good, round barrel, with splendid back, hip and 

 loin. His hips will be found broad, with great length from the point of -the hip to 

 whirlbone, and thence to stifle and hocks, the latter clean cut and well placed, and 

 the finest, soundest and best set of legs ever seen under ahorse; in fact, it is one of his 

 great excellent points, and certainly nothing is more essential to a good race-horse. 

 Rayon d'Or (Ray of Gold) deserves his name. Bred to the daughters or gran daughters 

 of Lexington possessing the Australian or Glencoe blood, or to the daughters of Bon- 

 nie Scotland with the Lexington Glencoe and Archy blood, he must and will be a 

 grand success in the stud. 



REBEL 



Will stand for the season 0/1883 at the stables of Capt. Wi Cottrill, near 

 Mobile, Ala. Services only by private contract. 



REBEL, by Socks, son of imp. Albion, bred by John L. Connally, Haze Co., Texas, 

 foaled 1861, dam Betty Wharton, by Othello, son of imp. Leviathan, out of a daughter 

 of imp. Consol, by Lottery, she out of Lady Huntsville, own sister to John Bascomb, 

 by Bertrand. Rebel may have been a first-class horse as a racer, but we have no 

 record of his performances. Socks, the sire of Rebel, was a fine race-horse; he beat 

 Planet in the Hutchison Stakes, mile heats, at Charleston, S. C., in 1859, in 1:48|, 

 1 :47|, and the following week won the Hutchison Stakes, same place, 2-mile heats, 

 in 3:41, 3:481, beating Fanny Washington and Hennie Farrow. Albion, the sire of 

 Socks, was imported as a yearling. Was a winner at from one to three-mile heats, 

 and famous as a stalion. On the dam's side, Rebel is exceptionally well bred, and is 

 descended from one of the oldest and most noted racing families in America. Othello, 

 sire of his dam, out of Sally Burton, by Sir Archy, was a very fine race-horse at all 

 distances. Imp. Consol, the sire of his grandam, was a successful sire, having gotten 

 the prodigy, Miss Foot; she won a second heat of four miles in 7:35, and in the fall 

 of 1842, beat Argentile and Alice Carneal, Lexington's dam, four-mile heats, at Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., in 7:42, 7:40, the best and fastest race run in the state to that date. His 

 great grandam, Lady Huntsville, was own sister to the great race-horse, John Bascomb, 

 the conquerer of Post Boy in the great match over the Union Course, L. L, by the 

 celebrated Old Bertrand. The family has always been a racing one, Ratler, Chifders,. 

 Sumpter, Wild Irishman, Frankfort, Parole, Falsetto, and a host of others, trace back 

 to the imp. Cub Mare, through Old Slamerkin by imp. Wildair. The best of Rebel's 

 get are Sam Harper. Ella Harper, Little Reb, Capt. Fred. Rice, Judith C, Bessie Davis, 

 Tunic, Col. Sellers (alias Tug Wilson, alias Little Dan), Texan and others, all of which 

 have been winners. Rebel is a dark brown horse, full 16 hands high, with gray or 

 silvered legs. He is a well shaped horse, possessing great constitution which he im- 

 parts to his progeny. 



