Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-04-22
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TH1S celebrated Race Horse and Stal.
Il lion will stand The ensuing Season,
from 18th February to 18th June, at Mr..
VIM. B. Mays, in EdgeieId District, S.
c., 3 miles from the Court House, on the
Augusta Road. He will be lei 10 mares
at $50 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-
Der next, must be sent with each mare, or
she will not be served. Good pasturage
will be provided, and mares fed OIL grain
at reasonable price, and servants board
ed gratis.
Every care will be taken OF mares and
foals, but no liabilities will be incurred for
escapes or accidents.
ARGYLE is dark brown horse, with
out white, except star, fifteen hands and
three quarters high; 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
lie, was by Oge's Oscar, his grandam by
DR.. Thornon's imported Horse CIif'len
his 6. 6. dam by Dir. Halls Spot; and his
g. e. 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 Racer, while
those OF his get enlille him to an equal
standing as a Stallion. He started first at
Orangeburg. S. C. in January 1884, and
ran at Barnwcll Augusta, Macon, Colum-
bia, and Charleston, two, three, and four
miles heals. winning successfully s races,
five Of them of four mile heats, beating
Patsy Wallace, Rattlesnake, (3,ines) Lu-
cy Ashton, Rushlight, Bertrand junior,
(twice) Vertunnus, &c. &c. He never
lost heat, and was rarely it ever put up
to his speed, until his extraordinary defea,
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
aud in May last on the Central Course a,
Baltimore, after running for the first hca,
of three 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 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, Kate
Seaton, won the great sweepstakes oi
$1,000, beating a fine field with great 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, yet his colts
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
aud Kate Seaton, are now unrivaIed upon
the Turf by any thing of their age.
The owners Of ARGYLE. in bringing
him back to The Stale in which tho moi
foaled) he was frs, 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, his
performances on the turf, so remarkable
for endurance, as well as speed, and the
extraordinary success of his get, worthy oil
their entire appreciation.
w. r. MAYS
Dec. 10, lSl0. 46 lr