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He got his money back long ago and the grand old son of Alarm is still alive though 

 nearly thirty years old. 



EOLUS, by imported Leamington, was called "the bull-dog of the turf" while he 

 was racing. He was a small horse, but then he was out of a very small mare, Fanny 

 Washington, also dam of Scathelock, by Eclipse. Eolus had to his credit the fastest 

 third heat of two miles ever run in America, he being compelled to run eight miles 

 in all to win the race. He did not get so many winners nor so much money won 

 as did Enquirer, Longfellow, Onondaga or Iroquois, but he bred quite as much cla,ss 

 as any of them, for neither of them ever got so good a horse at two or three as was 

 Eolus' son Morello. Nor in my belief did any one of the above quartette ever get 

 two such four-year-olds as Eole and his brother, St. Saviour. They certainly did not 

 from any one mare. Eole was sent to England to run for the Ascot Gold Cup and 

 horsemen of intelligence, like "Eph" Snediker, do not send horses three thousand 

 miles across the ocean without knowing what they can do. Knight of Ellerslie, by 

 Eolus-Lizzie Hazelwood, is the only one of his sons that has achieved much at the 

 stud; and his only really notable winner was that beautiful little chestnut, Henry of 

 Navarre, who was not, unfortunately, entered in any stake races of importance at 

 two years old, but made his mark at three and five, winning the Suburban cleverly 

 at the latter age. He has not been much of a success in the stud as yet, but there 

 are certainly good chances ahead of him. 



The reader will think I have overlooked Ben Brush if I do not mention him right; 

 here and now. That a horse eleven years old should have $150,000 to his credit in 

 his third year on the Winning Sires' list, is something remarkable. The only stallion 

 ahead of him in 1904 is the imported horse Meddler and he only beats him through 

 his daughter Colonial Girl, having won the St. Louis Handicap. Had the day been 

 fine and tihe track fast, Hermis would have won beyond all shadow of a doubt; and 

 that would have given Hermence the credit of first money while Ben Brush would 

 have retained the lead among sires. Mr. Keene told me he bought Ben Brush to win 

 the Suburban with him and did so. He certainly found him a very valuable purchase 

 after his racing days were ended. Since the above was written a sale has been held 

 in New York, at which Meddler was sold for $ 55,000 and Hamburg for $70,000; and 

 at the same sale Mr. Keene paid $14,000 each for two imported mares to breed 

 to Ben Brush. 



HAMBURG, for which Mr. Whitney paid $60,000 at the dispersal sale of Marcus 

 Daly's horses, sold for an advance of $10,000 on that figure, last Monday night (October 

 loth) in New York, Mr. James R. Keene having bid* $60,000 for him. This is the 

 highest price ever paid for any horse, mare or gelding, bred in America. Hamburg 

 comes from a great performing family but it was no great sire family until he and 

 Domino came along. But since Domino got a winner of the English Oaks and a 

 horse that won $12,500 in second and third moneys before he won a race ; and since 

 Hamburg has gotten two winners of the Futurity Stakes in consecutive years, in 

 addition to one of them having won the Brighton Oaks at three, this No. 23 family 

 can be set down safely as a sire family, so far as America is concerned, at least. We 

 are not likely to find a much better one for some time. From this family also came 

 Lecompte, by Boston out of Reel (of which great mare Hamburg has two crosses) by 

 Glencoe. And Lecompte was the sire of Umpire, who won eighteen good races in 

 England, in the colors of Mr. Richard Ten Broeck, now some twelve years dead. 



KINGSTON, by Spendthrift, out of Kapanga (imported) by Victorious, must be 

 considered as one of the first of American horses whether as a turf horse or a sire, 

 for he has been one of the first ten on the list ever since his get came on the 'turf; 

 and in 1900 he was premier sire of America with $116,368 written apposite his name. 

 In 1887 he made his first appearance at the New York tracks and Frank McCabe, who 

 trained for the Dwyer Bros., persuaded those gentlemen to buy him, for fear he might 



