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and Marian Hood, half-sister (by Martagon) to Poly- 

 melus, with a filly by Prince Palatine and covered by 

 Sunstar, for 2000 guineas. This was a really amazing 

 purchase, for the mare's three-year-old filly, Sunbonnet, 

 by Sunstar, was then in the States, having been ex- 

 ported as a yearling, and she won the Kentucky Oaks, 

 shortly after her dam and half-sister arrived. The 

 mare was in foal to Sunstar all right and produced a 

 colt which, as a yearling, sold for 25,000 dollars. 



Unfortunately Messrs Corrigan & McKinney dissolved 

 partnership for some private reason and sold off their 

 stud. Marian Hood and foal made fully three times 

 what they had cost, and, as I have stated above, the 

 mare's produce of the following year made 25,000 dollars 

 as a yearling. 



I have never been to Kentucky, but I know well 

 enough that there you deal with gentle-people who 

 retain the traditions of the old Southern States, and I 

 live in hopes of still going there. Miss Elizabeth 

 Daingerfield is a great lady and quite indefatigable. 

 The break-up of the Corrigan-McKinney combination 

 did not daunt her. She bought some of the best of 

 the stock herself, and now she has taken on the man- 

 agement of the great horse, Man o' War, for Messrs 

 Riddle & Jeffords. Again it happened that I was 

 remembered, and commissioned to buy mares for Man 

 o' War in December 1920, which I did, though the 

 prices ruled much higher than was generally anticipated. 



Now all this emanates from the original James R. 

 Keene Commission in 1892. I never met Miss 

 Daingerfield's father, nor have I ever had the pleasure 

 of meeting her, and this surely indicates that if you 

 really understand your job, and have no idea of 



