The Horse- Breeders' Guide and Hand Book. 



ALARM. — Continued. 



1:54|, He met and defeated the best. Gabriel, anotber son, ran thirty-three times as 

 a three-year old and won nine races, and thirty-seven times at four years old, winning 

 seventeen races. Amongst them were heats of a mile and a furlong in 1:56, 1:56, 

 with 113 lbs, he defeated many of the best horses of the year. Other creditable per- 

 formers of Alarm's get are Parthenia, Bruno, Jake White, America, Aliunde, Aureo- 

 lus. City Merchant, G-unnar, Africa, Startle, Judge Murray, Alley, Soubrette, Athos, 

 Breeze, Illusion, Flight, etc. It may be truly said that Alarm has scarcely had a fair 

 chance in the stud, those of his get are the equals of the produce of other stallions 

 from the same mares, and in most cases the best. He traces as an examination of his 

 pedigree will show, to Whalebone and thence to Herod and Eclipse, through the most 

 famous of their descendents, and to imp. Diomtd on both sides of sire and dam. Mares 

 possessing the Eclipse and Stoclswell blood should be bred to Alarm to perpetuate the 

 speedy strains of his blood. 



ALGERINE, 



(WINNEE OP THE BELMONT STAKES AT JEROME PARK IN 1876.) 



Will he located in the Algeria Stud, the j^roperty of 2Ir. Wm. L. Scott, 

 near Erie, Pa. Services only by private contract. 



ALGERDfE, by Abd-el-Kader, son of imp. Australian, was bred by Major Thos. 

 W. Doswell, Bullfleld Stud, Hanover Junction, Va. ; foaled 1873, dam Nina, the 

 dam of Planet, Exchequer, Ninette, Ecliptic, &c., by Old Boston. Algerine 

 did not run as a two-year old ; he made his bow to the public in the Preak- 

 ness Stakes at Baltimore in 1876, IJ miles, and was third to Shirley and Rap- 

 pahonnock in 3:44f. At Jerome Park he won the Belmont Stakes, li miles in 3:4.01-, 

 beating Fiddlesticks, the winner of the Withers Stakes, Barricade, brother to Bassett 

 (Charley Howard) and Red Coat, each carrying 110 lbs. He was unplaced in the 

 Dixie Stakes, 2 miles, at Baltimore ; won by Vigil in 3 :41i, 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, 3 miles, in 3:49i ; was 

 unplaced in the All- Aged Sweepstake, l^- miles, won by Tom Ochiltree in 2:43. 

 Won club purse, 2 mile lieats, at Baltimore, in 4:02}, 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. Abdel-Kader, his sire, although 

 badly hipped, was a fine race-horse at all distances ; he won a dash of 4 miles at 

 Saratoga in 1869, in 7:31f, a very creditable performance. Nina, the dam of Algerine, 

 was one of tlie 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, 15| hands, with black points, and no white about him. He is strongly inbred to 

 Sir Archy, and on the sire's side is a grandson of the great West Australian, winner of 

 the tripple events, 2,000 guineas, Derby and St. Leger, ui 1853. Boston, the sire of 

 his dam, was the 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, with the Archy and Diomed blood in both sides, through Diomed's best 



