ALGERIA STUD FARM. 9 
ALGERINE. 
(WINNER OF THE BELMONT STAKES AT JEROME PARK IN 1876,) 
From the Horse Breeders’ Guide and Hand Book, by Col. 8S. D. Bruce. 
“‘ ALGERINE, by Abd-el-Kader, son of *Australian, was bred by Major Thomas 
W. Doswell, Bullfield Stud, Hanover Junction, Va.; foaled 1873, dam Nina, the dam 
of Planet, Exchequer, Ninette, Ecliptic, etc., by Old Boston, Algerine did not run 
as a two-year-old ; he made his bow to the public in the Preakness Stakes at Balti- 
more in 1876, 14 miles, and was third to Shirley and Rappahannock in 2:443. At 
Jerome Park he won the Belmont Stakes, 14 miles, in 2:40}, beating Fiddlesticks, the 
winner of the Withers Stakes, Barricade, brother to Bassett (Charley Howard) and 
Red Coat, each carrying I10 pounds. He was unplaced in the Dixie Stakes, 2 miles; 
at Baltimore, won by Vigil in 3:414, track muddy. As a four-year-old he started five | 
times, ran second to Parole in the Maturity Stakes at Jerome Park, 3 miles, in 5:39; 
second to St. James, 2 miles, in 3:494 ; was unplaced in the All-Aged Sweepstake, 1} 
miles, won by Tom Ochiltree in 2:43. Wonclub purse, 2-mile heats, at Baltimore, 
in 4:024, 3:50, 4:00; track very heavy. Barricade won the second heat ; was unplaced 
in the Bowie Stake, 4-mile heats, won by Ten Broeck in 7:42$, 7:40. Abd-el-Kader, 
his sire, although badly hipped, was a fine race-horse at all distances ; he won adash 
of 4 miles at Saratoga in 1869, in 7:313, a very creditable performance. Nina, the 
dam of Algerine, was one of the best race-mares of her day; she was a winner at all 
distances, from one to four-mile heats, in good time, and produced Planet, one of 
the best horses in the country, at all distances, and for his chances a successful sire. 
‘algerine is a blood bay, 152 hands, with black points, and no white about him. Ue 
is strongly inbred to Sir Archy, and on the siré’s side is a grandson of the great West 
Australian, winner of the tripple events, 2,000 guineas, Derby and St. Leger, in 1853. 
Boston, the sire of his dam, wasthe best horse of any day. Algerine has no colts 
yet upon the turf, but from good mares should get winners and stayers ; he traces on 
both sides of sire and dam many times, to Herod and Eclipse, through the famous 
Waxy and Dick Andrews, and with the Archy ‘and Diomed blood on both sides, 
through Diomed’s best sons.” 
The entire produce of Algerine, living to be two years old, numbers but thirty- 
two, three of which are of double parentage. Twenty of these have gone to the post 
and furnished the large proportion of fifteen winners, viz: Aurelia, Brian Boru, 
I. H. D., Allarene, Somerset, Krishna, Tunis, J. C, Burnet, Irish Dan, Sirocco, 
Velvet, Simoon, Radha, Binnacle and Torso. 
