Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-05-10
ARGYLE,
f!A,.:Y',.

THHE celebrated Race Horse and Stall
Il lion, ARGYLE, will siaud the cpsu.
Ing Season al the Plantation Of Capi. Wa.
B. MAYS, four miles south of Edgefeld C.
H., on the Augusta Road. He will be lei
to Mares al SIS the single visit SIS she
season and S35 10 insure apd half dbl
lar to the Groom IN every instance. The
money oran approved nrte payable the
18th Of Dece nber next, must be sent with
each Mare. Or she will moi be served.
Good pasIutage will be provided, aud
Mares fed on grain al a reasonable price,
and servants boarded gratis.
A club Olive Mares shall be entitled to
their season al $50 each Hiafe, and should
they prove not in foal, ihet shsll have The
beue6l OF The Fall Season gratis. Every
care will be takea of the Mares and their
foaIs, butno liabilities will be incurred for
escapes or accidents. 4 discount of ten
per cen, will be allowed op all monies
paid al the time Of putting the Ma,c.
The Season will commence on the frs,
Of February. and end on The las, Of June.
ARGYLE is dark brown horse. with
out white, eScer, stai, fifteen hands aud
,hrce quarters high; possessed Of DDeom-
mon bone and nipscle, and form com.
bining with perfect symmetry, every es-
sen!iaI Of a Race Horse. He 10 now l2
years old, having been foaled in Maryland
iu the Spring Of 1890. He was sired by
The famous Nous. Toason, bis dam THE
tie. was by Ogie's Oscar, his grandam by
DIR. Thornson's imported Horse Clifden
bis g. z. dam by Mr.. Halls Spot; ond his
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 10 the very FIRST
rank Of American Horses as Racer.
while those cf his get chti,le him to an
equal standing as Stallion. Hc started
fra. at Orangeburg, S. G., in DAD. 1884,
and ran at Barnwell. Augusta, Hacon,
Columbia aud Charleston, Two, three aud
four sniies heats. winning successiyely s
races. I've hf them Of four mile heats, beat
ing Patsy Wallace, RattIesHakc, g iimes)
Lucy Ashton, Rushlighr, Bertrand, junior,
(.wice) Nerumus, &c. &c. He never
lost heat. and was rarely IL ever put up
10 his speed. until his extraordinary defeat
by John Bascombe, in April, 1886. tho
circumstances Of hich are familiar TO cv-
cry one. Subsequently he wos traiSsd
and run with great success in Virginia;
aud ip May last on the Central Course a,
Baltimore, after running Tor the 6rst hea,
OF three miles, and losing i, by head in s
n.inues 4 seconds, no won the secord heat
in 5 minutes. 40 seconds, being the best
second heat Of three miles recorded in tho
American Turf. aud the most brilliant per-
formunce Of a year surpassipg all Others in
The richness OF its annals. During the
same week, and on the same course, one
of his daughters, Kale Seaton, won the
grea, sweepstakes Of $1,000. beating a 6ne
field With great case; such a coincidence
beiuz hitherto unknown upon the Turf.
ARGYLE stood but ono season aud 10
limited number Of mares. not many Of
which were thorough bred. yet bis colts
have won nine out Of eleven races for
which they have been started, beating st
one, Two and three miles, the gel Of many
of our bes, Slallions. besides several i'm
ported coils, some Of them in 6rst-ra,c
time. Two Of bis get, Governor Butler
aud Kate Seaion, arc DOW unrivallcd upon
the Turf by any thing Of their age,
The owEers of ARGYLE. in bringing
him back TO The State in which Though
not foalrd) he was frs. trained aud gained
his earliest Iaurels. present him with con-
6dence to the Public, as being in every
way, on account of bis blood. sire aud
form, his performances on the turf. so re-
markablc for endurance, as we'll as speed,
and the extraordinary success Of bis ger,
worthy Of their entire appreciation.
WILLIAM b. MAYS.
January Is, Is43 tf 81