154 The Horse-Breeders^ Guide and Hand Boole. 



STRATFORD 



Will be used as private stallion in the Chester Valley Stud, Chester Valley y 

 Pa. f the property of A. J. Cassatt, Esq. 



STRATFORD (Leamington 2d), by imp. Leamington, son of Faugh-a-Ballagh, bred by 

 A Welch, Erdenheim Stud, Pa., foaled 1873, dam Susan Beane, dam of Sensation, by 

 Lexington, son of Boston, out of Sally Lewis, dam of Hunter's Lexington, John 

 Morgan Acrobat, etc., by imp. Glencoe. Stratford was an exceedingly promising horse 

 as a two-year old, but having been taken with a severe attack of distemper, was totally 

 unable to start and the disease left him in such a poor plight, having injured his lungs, 

 so that whilst he had speed, he was unable to stay a distance. At three years old he 

 started in fifteen races, winning two, running second in five, third in one, and un- 

 placed in the others. Point Breeze Park, Pa. , won purse three-quarters of mile a in 

 1:17J, beating Durango, Paladin, and four others ; same place won purse heats of half 

 a mile in :49f , :49|, :49|, beating First Chance, who won first heat, Hobkirk andJGrey 

 Lag, the fastest three heats ever run. Jerome Park, ran second to Ambush, 

 one mile in 1:48, beating Woodlands. Long Branch, ran second to Romney, 

 three quarters of a mile in 1 :18. Faithless Hattic F, and three others behind him. 

 Point Breeze Park ran second to First Chance, three quarters of a mile in 1:15, 

 beating Culpepper and two others. Ran second to Waco, one mile in 1 :44, beating 

 Hobkirk, Einma G and another. Washington, D.C., ran second to Burgoo, 1 

 miles in 2:14, beating First Chance, Fadladeen and one other. As a four year 

 ran unplaced in three races. Stratford is a highly bred horse, own brother to the 

 great Sensation, and is bred from one of the great racing families of America, a family 

 which were almost uniformly large and profitable winners on the turf, and very success- 

 ful as stallions and broad mares, the family which produced Sensation, John Morgan, 

 Acrobat, Hunter's Lexington, Motto, Nannie Lewis, Glenmore, and a host of others, 

 possessing speed, conformation, racing lineage and blood he cannot fail as a sire. 

 Stratford is a brown, 15f hands, with a Leamington blaze in his face and black legs, he 

 has magnificient shoulders, good middle piece, good back hip and loin, and excellent 

 legs and feef. He much resembles his sire in general conformation and appearance. 



