Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-13
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IOu Mui otouu tHe cuSulng season,
from 18th February to 18th June, at Mr.,
WIN. b. Mars, in Edge6eId District, s.
c., 8 miles from the Court House, on The
Augusta Road. He will be lei 10 mares
at $40 the single visit, $50 the Season,
and $50 10 insure; and one dollar to the
groom in every instance. The money, or
an approved note payable the 18th Decem-
ber next, must be sent with each mare, or
she will not be served. Good pasturage
will be provided, and mares fed on grain
at reasonable price, and servants board
ed gratis.
Every care will be taken OF mares and
(oals, but no liabilities will be incurred for
escapes or accidents.
ARGYLE ia dark brown horse, with
out white, except star, fifteen hands and
three quarters nigh; possessed Of uncom-
mon bone and muscle, and form COM
bining with perfect symmetry, every es-
sential Of Race Horse. He is now ten
years old, having been foaled in Maryland
in the Spring of 1880. He was sired by
the famous Mons. Tonson, his dam This
tie, was by OgIe's Oscar, bis grandam by
DR.. Thornton's imported Horse CIfden !;
his &. 6. dam by Mr.. Halls Spot; and his
g. g. 6. dam by Dr.. Marshall's Hyder Ally,
who was by Lindsay's Arabian.
The Performances Of ARGYLE upon
the Turf, have placed him in The very first
rank of American Horses as a Racer, while
those of his get en,ille him to an equal
standing as Stallion. He started first at
Orauseburg, S. c. in January 1884, and
ran at Barnwell, Augusta, Macon, Colum-
bia, and Charleston, two, three, aud four
miles heats. winning successfully 8 races,
Eve of them of four mile heats. beating
Patsy Wallace, Rattlesnake, e limes) Lu-
cy Ashton, Rushlishl, Bertrand junior.
(twice) Vertumnus, &c. &c. He never
lost a heat, and was rarely if ever put up
TO his speed, until his extraordinary defeat
by john Bascombe in April, 1886, the
circumstances of which are familiar 10
every one. Subsequently he was trained
and run with grea, success in Virginia;
and in May last on the Central Course al
Baltimore, after running for the first hea,
of three miles, and losing il by a head in S
minutes 47-seconds, he won the second
heat in S minutes, 40 seconds, being the
best second heat of three miles recorded in
the history Of The American Turf, and the
most brilliant performance of year sur
passing all others in the richness of its an
mails. During The same week, and OIL the
same course, one Of his daughters, KaIe
Seaton, won the great sweepstakes of
$1,000, beating a fine field with great ease;
such coincidence being hitherto unknown
upon the Turf.
ARGYLE stood but one season and 10
a limited number of mares, not many of
which were thorough bred, yel his colts
have won nine out of the eleven races 70
which they have been started, beating at
one, two, and three miles, the get of many
of our best Stations, besides several i'm
ported colts, some of them in frst-rare
time. Two of bis get, Governor Butler
and Kate Seaton, are now unrivalled upon
the Turf by any thing of their age.
The owners Of ARGYLE. in bringing
him back to the Stale in which tho not
foaled) he was first trained and gained his
earliest laurels. present him with conf
dence to The Public, as being in every way,
on account Of his blood, sire and form, bis
performances on the turf, SO remarkable
for endurance, as well as speed, and the
extraordinary success Of bis get, worthy Of
their entire appreciation.
w. B. MAYS.
Dec. Is, 164O. 46 II