Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-05-03
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V1uE celebrated Race Horse and Stall
4 lion, ARGYLE. will stand the ensu.
ing Season ut the Plantation of Capt. WM.
B. MAYS, four miles south Of Edgefield G.
H., on the Augusta Road. lie will be let
TO Mares q, SIS The single visit; sos the
season; and S35 to insure and half dol
lar to the Groom ln every instance. Tho
money oran approved noic payable the
10Th Of December next, must be sent with
each Mare. or she will not be served.
Good pas'urage will be provided, aud
Mares fed on grain Of reasonable price,
and servants boarded gratis.
A club offive Mares shall be entitled TO
their season al $50 each Mare, and should
they prove no, in Ioal, they shall have tho
bcuefit Of The Fall Season srntis. Every
cure will be taken Of The Mares and their
foals, but no liabilities will be incurred for
escapes or accidents. A discount of ten
per cent will be allowed on all monies
paid at The Time Of putting the Maze.
Tho Season viii commence on the FIRST
Of February, aud end on The last OF June.
ARGYLE is dari. brown horse, with.
our white, except a stat, fifteen hands aud
three quarters high; possessed of uncom-
mon bone and muscle, and form com.
bining will, perfect symmetry, every es-
sen:ial Of a Race Horse. He is now l2
years old, having been foalcd in Maryland
in the Springof 1880. He was sired by
the famous Mons. Tonson, his dam This
tie, was by Ogle's Oscar, his grandam by
DR.. Thornton's imported Horse Clifden;
his g. &. dam by Mr.. Halls Spot; and his
g. z. g. dam by DR.. NIarshall's Hyder Any,
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 a Racer,
while those Of his get enti!lc him TO an
cqua! s,auding as a Stallion; he staricd
first at Ornngeburg, S. c., in Jan. 1884,
and ran at BaEnwell, Augusta, Macop,
Columbia and Charleston, two, three and
four miles heats. winning sucr cssiyeiy s
races, five Of them Of four mile heats, beat
ing Patsy Wallace. Ra,,lssnake, e times)
Lucy Ashton, Rushlighi, Bertrand. junior.
(lwice) Ncnumus, &c. Sc. He never
lost heat. aud was rarely ifever put up
TO his speed, until his extraordinary defeat
by John Bascombc. in April, 1886, the
circumstances Of which are familiar TO ev-
cry one. Subsequently he was trained
aud run with great success in Virginia; ;
and in May last on the Ceu,ra! Course ut
Baltimore, after running Tor the first heat
ofthrce miles, and losing it by head in S
minucs 4 seconds, he won the second heat
in 5 minutes. 40 seconds, being the best
second heat ofihree miles recorded in tho
American Turf, ard the most brilliant per-
formance OF year surprising all Others in
the richness Of lis annals. During The
same week, and on the same course, one
Of his daughters, Kaic Seaton. won the
grea, sweepstakes Of $1,000, beating n 6ne
field with great ease; such coincidence
being hitherto unknowo opon the Turf.
ARGYLE stood but one season aud 10
liniled 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, beaiing at
onc, two and three miles, The get Of many
of our bc5; Stations, besides several i'm
ported colts, come of them in frst-ru,c
time. Two Of his get, Governor Butler
and Kate Sea,ou, nre now uurivalled upon
The Turf by any !hi1g df their age,
The owners Of ARGYLE. in bringing
him back TO the State in which (tliough
no, loaled) he was frs, trained aud gained
his earliest ,aurels. present him with con-
fdcuce TO the Public, Us being in every
way, on account Of bis blood, sire and
form, his performances on The turf. SO re.
marsablc for endurance, as we'll as speed,
and the extraordinary success Of his get,
worthy of their entire appreciation.
WILLIAM b. MAYS.
January ls. 1913 If 81
State OF South Carolina,