Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-06
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~ 1lS celebrated hace Horse ana , tall
II lion will stand The ensuing Season.:
from 18th February to 5th Juue, at Mr..
WIN. B. Mays lin Edgeield District, S.
c., 3 miles from the Court House, on the
Augusta Road. He will he letto 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 beasefved. Good pasturage
will be provided, and mares fed on grain
at a reasonable price, and servants board
ed gratis.
Every care will be taken OF mares and
foals, butno liabilities will be incurred for
escapes or accidents.
- ARGYLE is a dark brown horse, with
out white, except star, fifteen hands and
three quarters high; possessed Of uncom-
mon bone and muscle, aud a form COM
bining with. perfect symmetry, every es-
sential Of 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. Tonson, his dam This
lie, was by Ogle's Oscar, his grandam by
Dr.. Thornton's imported Horse Clifden !;
his g. 6. dam by Mr.. Halls Spot; and his
6. 6. 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 ofAmerican Horses as Racer, while
those Of his get en,itle him to au equal
standing as Stallion. He started first at
Orangeburg, S. C. in January 1884, and
ran at Barnwell, Augusta, Macon, Coum-
bia, and Charleston, two, three, aud four
miles heats. winning successfully 8 races,
FIVE of them of. four mile heats, beating
Patsy Wallace, r Rattlesnake, (3limes) Lu-
cy Ashton, .Rushlight, Bertrand junior,
(twice) Vertumnus, &c. &c. He never
lost 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 to
every one. Subsequently he was trained
and run with great success in Virginia.
and in May last on the Central Course a,
Baltimore, after running for the first heat
of three miles, and losing it by head in
minutes 47-seconds, he won the second
heat in minutes. DO 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 ia the richness of its an.
nails. During The same week, and on the
same course, one Of his daughters, KATE
Seaton, won the great sweepstakes o
!. $1,000, beating fine field with great ease;
such coincidence being hitherto unknown
upon the Turf.
| ARGYLE stood but one season and tc
limited number Of mares, not many o
which were thorough bred, yet bis colts
have won nine out of the eleven races 70
which they have been started, beating al
one, two, and three miles, the get ofmany
OF our best Stations, besides several i'm
!. ported colts some Of them. in frst;rate
4 time. = TWO OF MS geI1 GUveruUrButteT
| and Kate Seaton, are now unrivalIed 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,
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 oi
their entire appreciation.
w. B. MAYS.
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