Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-03-15
ARGYLE.
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1.-THE celebrated Race Horse and Stall
l. lion, ARGYLE, will stand the eusu-
ing Season at the Plantation Of Capt. WM.
Is. Mars, four miles south OF Edgefield e.
H., nn the Augusta Road. He will be lei
TO Mares a, SIS the single visit; So the
season !; mud $50 to insure ; and half u dol
lar TO the Groom in every instance. The
money oran approved note payable the
10Th OF December next, must be sent with
each Marc. or she will mol be SERVED.
Good pastuTage will be provided, and
Mares fed OF grain at n reasonable price,
and servant boarded gratis.
q club Olive Mares shall be entitled 10
their season a, geo each Marc, aud should
they prove not in roai, they shalt havc the
bcuefi o! tic Fail Season gratis. Every
care vii! be taken Of the Mates and their
loals, but no liabilities will be incurred for
escapes ar accidents. 4 discount OF Ten
per cent will be allowed on all monies
paid III the ii.nc Of putting the Mare
The Season will commence on the first
Of February. and end on The last Of June.
ARGYLE is Il dark brown imrsc. with
out white, except d stat, fifteen hands aud
three quarters high; possessed nfnncom-
mon bunc and muscle, nrda !nr,n com
hiuins with perfect symmetry, every es-
~scu:ial Of a Race Horse. lie is now IL
years old, having been inaic,l in Maryland
in the Spring Of 1880. lie was sired by
the famous Nous. Touson. his dam This
tic, was By Oslc's Oscar. his srandam by
DR.. Thornioa's imported i'orsc Clifdcn !.
his 81 dam by Mr.. Halls Spot: and his
<. e g. dam by DR.. Marshall's Hyder Ally,
VITO WAS by LimIsay's Arnhian.
The performances Of ARGYLE nInn
the Turi, have placed him ia the very firL
rank OF American .iinrscs rs n Racer,
while s!,nsc of his get entitle him to an
equal s'anding as 4 Striliou. He started
first ut 0rangchurg, ). c.. in Jau. 1854,
and ranat Barnwell, Anguish. Macon,
Columbia aud Charleston, two, three and
four miles heats, winning successfully 81
races. five of them Of four milo heats, beat
ing Patsy Wallace, Ralilcsnakc, q iintcs)
Lucy Ashton, Rushlisti, Benrnifi. junior.
(,wice1 Nelsuu,as, &c. &c. He never
lost d heaf, aud was rarely if ever pnL up
IL lt;s s,,.etl sN.sfsf :s;% -
~ OH Bascora5c, il April, ls3G, the
circumstances Of which are la,n!!iarto ev-
cry one. Subsequently nc was trained
and run with greu. success III Virginia;
and in Nav last on the Central Course al
Baltimore. aG,es -unnins Tor the hrst heat
of,hrce miles, and losing it by a head IN 5
minues 4 seconds. he won the second heat
in 5 minutes, 40 seconds, helm: the best
SECOND heat o tI,rec miles recorded IN the
American Turf. aud the most brilliant per-
formauce of a year surprising MI others IN
The richness OF lis annals. During the
same week, and on The same course, ono
of his daughters, ka'e Sca;on, won The
great sweepstakes Of Sln0O, beating n Inc
Geld with grca, case; snc' Il coincidence
being hitherto unknown upon The Inrt.
ARGYLE stood hut nnc season and 10
n limited number oG mares. not many oi
which were thorough bred. We; his colts
have won nine on, cf eleven races Tor
which, they have been started, beating at
ono, two and three miles. the get Of many
of uur best Stations, besides several i'm
ported colts, sou,o al ti,cn IN hrst.raic
time. Two Of his get. Governor Butler
and Kate Seaton, are now uurivallcd upon
the Turf by any ;i'ins of their age,
The owners of ARGYLE. in bringing
him b,ck to The State in which (tliough
no, roalcd) he was frs; truinrd and anincd
his earliest lautcls. preseri him with crm-
Gdcncc To the Public. as being in every
wav. On account or his blood, sire and
form, his performances nm the turf. 50 re
markablc for en,iurlncc. n well rs speed.
and the extraordinary success of his sd.
worthy Of their cn'ir" appr"harinn.
WILLIAM 4. MAYS
January Is. !S!3 If 81