Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-03-25
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Feb. 16, l641.
H1HIS celebrated Race Horse and Stall

E1HIS celebrated Race Horse and Stall
Il lion will slandlhe ensuing Season,
from 18th February TO 18th June, at Mr..
WM. B. Mays, in Edgefela District, s.
c.. 3 miles from the Court. House, on the
Augusta Road. lie will lie let 10 mares
at $50 The single visit, $50 the Season,
and $50 10 insure and Que dollar to the
groom in every instance. The money, or
an approved note payable the 18th Decem-
her next must be sent with each mare, or
she will no. be served. Good pasturage
will be provided, aud mares fed OH grain
at reasonable price, and servants board
ed gratis.
Every care will be taken ofmares and
ioals, but no liabilities will be incurred for
escapes or accidents.
ARGYLE is dark brown horse, with
OUT white, except a star, fifteen hands and
three quarters high; possessed Of uucom'
mon bone and muscle, and form COM
hinins with perlecl symmetry. every es-
sentiai Of Race Horse. He is now ten
years old, having been foaIed in Maryland
in the Spring of 1880. He was sired by
The famous Mons. Tonson, his dam This
lie, was by Ogle's Oscar, his grandam by
DR.. TIornlon's imported Horse CIifilen;
his e. 6. dam by Ar. Halls Spot; and his
g.g. 8. 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 frs,
rank of American Horses as a Racer, while
those Of his get en,ille him to an equal
standing as a Stallion. He started first at
Orangeburg. S. c. in January 1891, and
ran al Barnwel, Augusta, Macon, Coum-
bia, and Charleston, two, three, aud four
miles heats. winning successively 8 races.
i've Of Them of four mile heals, beating
Patsy Wallace, RattIesnakc, e limes) Ln-
cy Ashton, Rushlishl. Bertrand junior,
(twice) Vertunnus, &c. &c. He never
lost heal, aud was rarely it ever put up
to his speed. until his extraordinary defeat
by John Bascombe in April, 1876, The
circumstances Of which are familiar to
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 firsl heat
of three miles, and losing il by head in 5
minutes 47-secouds, he won the second
heat in niinures. 40 seconds, being The
best second heat of three miles recorded in
the history of The American Turf, and the
most briIian, performance Of a year sur
passing all Others in-the richness Of its an-
mails. During The same week, and OH the
same course, one .! his dauS Shiers, kae
Seatou, won the great sweepstakes Of
$1,000, beating a fine field with s'ea, ease;
such a coincidence being hitherto unknown
upon the Turf.
ARGYLE sIood bu, one season and 10
a limited number Of mares, nol many Of
which were thorough bred, ye, his colts
have won nine out of the eleven races 10
which they have heeu started, beating at
one, two, and three miles, the gel of many
of our best Stations, besides several i'm
ported colts, some Of them in frsI-rate
time. Two of his get, Governor Butler
and Kate Seaion, 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 (ho' not
foaed) he was first trained and gained his
earliest laurels. present him with conf
dence to The Public, as being in every way,
OIL account Of his blood, sire and form, his
performances on the turf, so remarkable
for endurance, as well as speed, and the
extraordinary success Of his get, worthy of
their entire appreciation.
w. b. MAYS.
Dec. Is, 1910. 46 IF