Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-04-15
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EHIs celebrated Race Horse and Stall

t1lS CeleOraleu hace fl0rSe and Stall
h lion will stand the ensuing Season.
from 18th February to 18th June, at Mr..
VIM. B. Mays, in Edgetield 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 to insure; and one dollar to the
groom in every instance. The money, OF
an approved note payable the 18th Decem.
ber next, must be sent with each mare, Oh
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 anc
foals, but no liabilities will be incurred fo
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.
tie, was by Ogle's Oscar, his grandam by
DR.. Thornlon's imported Horse CIifien
his Z. 6. dam by Alr. Halls Spot; and bis
g.g.g. dam by DR.. MarshaIl's Hyder Ally,
who was by Lindsay's Arabian.
The Performances of ARGYLE upon
the Turf, have placed him in The very firsl
rank of American Horses asa Racer, while
those Of his get cn,ille him to an equal
standing asa Stallion. He started first at
Orangeburg. S. c. in January 1884, and
ran al Barnwell, Augusta, Macon, Colnm-
bia, and Charleston, two, three, aud four
miles heats. winning successfully 8 races,
five of Them of tour mile heats, beating
Patsy Wallace, Rattlesnake, (3limes) Luz
cy Ashton, Rushlishr. Bertrand junior,
(twice) Vertumnus, &c. &c. Ele never
lost heat, and was rarely if ever pul 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;
aud in May last on the Central Course at
Baltimore, after running for the first heat
of three miles, and losing it by head in 5
minutes 47-seconds, he won the second
heal in 5 minures, do seconds, being the
best second heat of three miles recorded in
the history of The American Turf, and the
most briIIian, performance Of year sur
passing all others in the richness of lis an
mails. During The same week, and on the
same course, one Of his daughters, Kate
Scaton, 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, mol many Of
which were thorough bred, YET his colts
have won nine ou 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 frsl-rate.
lines Twosofshis get. Governor Butler
and Kate Sealon, 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,
OH account of his blood, sire and form, his
performances on the turf so remarkable
for endurance. as well as speed, and the
extraordinary success ofhis get, worthy Of
their entire appreciation.
w. B. MAYS.
Dec. Is, 1910. 46 lf