144 The Horse- Breeders' Guide and Hand Book. 



SENSATION, 



(WINNER OF JUVENILE AND NURSERY STAKES AT JEROME PARK, 

 JULY, CRITERION AND AUGUST STAKES AT MONMOUTH PARK, 

 SARATOGA AND FLASH STAKES AT SARATOGA, AND CENTRAL 

 STAKES AT BALTIMORE, 1879.) 



Sensation will stand the season of 1883 at the Bolingbrooke /Stud, near 

 Middleburg, Md., at $100 the season. Application to R. W. Walden, 

 Middlebury, Md. 



SENSATION by imp. Leamington, son of Faugh-a-Ballagh, bred by Mr. A. Welch, 

 Erdenheim Stud, Pa., foaled, 1877, dam Susan Beane, dam of Stratford, Susquehanna, 

 Onondaga, etc., by Lexington, son of Boston, out of Sally Lewis, dam of John Morgan, 

 Hunter's Lexington Acrobat, etc., by imp. Glencoe. Sensation was truly the sensa- 

 tion of his two-year old year. Started eight times and won all of his races. Jerome 

 Park, May 31, won the Juvenile Stakes, half-mile, defeating Ethel and nine others ; 

 time, :50. Monmouth Park, July 8, won the July Stakes, five furlongs, defeating 

 his stable companions, Grenada and Rosalie, who finished, respectively, second and 

 third, and ten others ; time, 1 :07. Saratoga, July 23, won the Flash Stakes, half-mile, 

 Grenada and Rosalie again finishing second and third, five others came in behind them ;. 

 time, :49f . Same meeting, July 29, won the Saratoga Stakes, three-quarter mile, 

 defeating Grenada, who finished second, Beata, Glidelia, Girofle andBy-and By ; time, 

 1 :18. Monmouth Park, Aug. 23, won the August Stakes, three-quarter mile, defeat- 

 ing Grenada, who ran second, and seven others ; time, 1:18. Same meeting, Aug. 

 26, won the Criterion Stakes, three-quarter mile, carrying 5 Ibs, penalty, and defeated 

 Grenada, second, and five others ; time, 1:22 ; track slow and heavy. Jerome Park, 

 Oc. 2, won the Nursery Stakes, three-quarter mile, defeating Ferncliff, Grenada and 

 four others ; time. 1 :18. Baltimore, Oct. 23, won the Central Stakes, one mile, de- 

 feating Grenada and Oden ; time, 1:50J. Total winnings, for the year, $20,250. He 

 met and defeated all the best two-year olds of his year, winning from a half to one 

 mile. He bursted his foot in the spring of 1880, which compelled his retirement. He 

 is from one of the great racing families of the country. Acrobat and Hunter's 

 Lexington, full brothers to his dam, were fine race-horses and could stay a distance. 

 John Morgan, a half brother, was also a superior race-horse, and for his chances a 

 very successful stallion, Motto, Nannie Lewis, Aldebaran were all good ones. Glen- 

 more is also from the same family, and his dam traces back to the dam of the great 

 race-horse Medoc, who was the most successful sire in any day on all sorts of mares. 

 Sensation is a brown, full 16 hands high, with a white stripe down his face and a lit- 

 tle white on the pastern of his left fore leg. He has a fine well placed shoulder and is 

 symmetrically formed all over with faultless action and good temper. From being a 

 son of Leamington, and tracing to a racing family and being an uncommon fine race- 

 norse, he should get race-horses. He has the Pantaloon and Whalebone crosses on 

 the sire's side, and the Glencoe on the dam's with the blood of Sir Archy and Diomed 

 through its best sources. 



