Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-20
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"HIS celebrated Race Horse and Stall
Il lion will stand the ensuing Season,
from 18th February to 18th June, at Mr..
VIM. b. MAYS, in Edge6eId District, S.
c., 3 miles from the Court House, on the
Augusta Road. He will be let TO mares
at 500 The single visit, $50 the Season,
and $50 TO insure; and one dollar to the
groom in every instance. The money, or
an approved note payable the 18th Decem-
Der next, must be sent with each mare, or
she will not be served. Good pasturage
will be provided, and d-mares fed on grain
at reasonable price, and servants board
ed gratis.
Every care will be taken ofmares and
foals, but no liabilities will be incurred for
escapesror accidents.
ARGYLE is dark brown horse, with
out white, except star, fifteen hands and
three quarters high; possessed Of uucom-
mon bone and muscle, and a form COM
bining with perfect symmetry, every es-
sentiaEof a.Race Horse. Heis now ten
years old, having been foaled in Maryland
in the Spring of 1880. He was sired by
the famous Mons. Touson, his dam This
lie, was by Ogle's Oscar, bis grandam by
DR.. Thornton's imported Horse Clifden !;
his g. g. dam by Mr.. Halls Spot; and his
6. G. 6. dandy 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 Racer, while
those Of his get entille him to an equal
standing as a Stallion. He started first at
Orangeburg. S. C.. in January 1884, and
ran at Barnwell, Augusta, Macon, Colum-
bia, and Charleston, two, three, and four
miles heats, winning successiyely 8 races,
FIVE of them of four mile heats, beating
Patsy Wallace, Rattesnake, (3times) Lu-
cy Ashton, Rushlight, Bertrand junior,
(twice) Vertumnus, &c. &c. He never
lost heat, aud 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 great success in Virginia;
aud in May last on the Central Course al
Baltimore, after running for the frs, heat
ofthree miles, and losing it by head in 5
minutes 47-seconds, he won the second
heat in 5 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 a year sur
passing all others in the richness Of its an
mails. During The same week, and on the
same course, one Of his daus hters, Kaie
Seaton, won the great sweepstakes OF
$1,000, beating a fine field with siea, ease
such coincidence being hitherto unknown
upon the Turf.
ARGYLE stood but one season and tc
a limited number of mares, not many o
which were thorough. bred, vel his colt:
have won nine out of the eleven races 70
which they have been started, beating al
one, two, and three miles, the get Of, many
Of our best Stations, besides several i'm.
ported colts, some of them in 6rst-rate
time. Two Of his get, Governor Butler
and Kate Seaton, are now unriyalled upor
the Turf by any thing Of their age.
The owners Of ARGYLE. in bringin;
him back to the Stale in which tho no
foaled) he was first trained and gained hi
earliest laurels, present him with conf
dence tolhe Public, as being in every way
ON account Of his blood, sire and form, hi
performances on the turf, so remarkabl,
for endurance. as well as speed, and th'
extraordinary success Of his get, worthy, o
their entire appreciation.
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