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spread. They owned Domino, Commando and several other 

 stallions, together with some noted mares, among them Cap 

 and Bells, the only American filly that ever won the Eng- 

 lish Oaks. Their breeding establishment in Kentucky is 

 one of the most replete with modern conveniences in the 

 world. Among the celebrated turfmen of to-day there are 

 no men who stand higher. They are respected for their 

 probity and enterprise. 



William C. Whitney was from New York, but had vast 

 breeding interests in the heart of the Blue Grass section of 

 Kentucky. There was no man of modern times who went 

 into racing on such a colossal scale. It was his ambition to 

 gather together, not merely the greatest racing stable, but 

 the best stud in all the world. In both he succeeded, but 

 unfortunately death came to him just as prospects for the 

 realization of his greatest hopes were brightest. 



Gen. William H. Jackson, one of the most distinguished 

 breeders on the American turf to-day, owned the famous Bell 

 Meade, at Nashville, Tenn., where he yearly turned out many 

 of the great horses that are to be seen on the turf. He made 

 Belle Meade one of most beautiful places in the world. 



The late Theodore Winter's greatest claim to distinc- 

 tion as breeder was by being the owner of so good a brood 

 mare as Marion, who threw nothing but good ones from 

 any horse they bred her to every crack. She produced 

 several of the best horses ever raised West of the Ohio 

 river and most of them were by a second Lexington horse 

 at that. She was one of the best of brood mares, though 

 rather lowly bred. 



Lucky Baldwin has made quite a success in breeding 

 of thoroughbreds. He has won several Derbies with horses 

 of his own breeding; for instance, Silver Cloud and Volun- 

 tary both won the American Derby. Rael Santinita, Gano 

 and others, all good winners, are to his credit and all were 

 bred and reared by him at his ranch near Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Mr. James C. Hagin is of world wide renown for hav- 

 ing the largest breeding plant of thoroughbreds of any man 

 in the world to date and is equally famous for the great 

 number of very high class horses he has bred, reared and 

 sold and dispersed to every part of the land through the 

 medium of his annual sales. 



