Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-07-05
rms ctlEBaATeo RACE HORSE AND STALLION
ARGYLE,

~rrrr + sand tbe ensuing season. at the plan.
" ,,,;oo of Samuel Nays, in Flint District,
,>,,,oLse nation. He will be let TO mares at s2o
,bs season. aud ,ha, paid within the year-a de-
duc,on of 20 per cent. being made Tor moneys
maid within the season. The season to commence
On Tho Is, day Of March, and end the So'h oi
June.
Fverv e.re will be taken OF the mares, and
,ho,, fo,ls. bu, no liabilities will be incurred Tor
s.c,,c, or accidents. Good pasturage will be pro-
v;Jad and mares fed on grain at Reasonable
,,;ce' and servants boarded gratis. Should
nm "a no, prove 10 foa, she shall have the benefit
of the succeeding Fall season gratis.
DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE.
ARGYLE is a dark brown, without white' eS'
cen, star, fifteen hands and three quarters h'sh'
no.,es,ed of uncommon bone and muscle, and
form combining with perfect symmetry, every es-
seutial Of Race Horse. lie is now fourteen
wears old, having been foaled in Maryland, IN the
ur,ua of 1880. He was sired BY the famous Mon
Topson, his dam Thistle. was by OgIe's Oscar, ms
eraudam BY DR.. Thornton's imported Horse Chli'
den, his g. grandam by Mr.. Hans Sp',' '' a"u ns
q. z. z. dam by DIR. Marshahs nyuef n'!' WIZ
was hy Lndsny's Arabian.
PERFORMANCE ON THE TURF.
The performances oi ARGYLE on the Iurf, have
placed him in the very first rank OF American
Horses, as Racer, while those Of his get entities
him to an equal standing as Stallion. He start.
ed first at Orangeburg, S. G.. in 1884. and ran AT
R,rnwell Augusta, Macon, Columbia and Charles
ton two, three, and four mile heats, beating Pat.
.v Wallace, RatlIesIiake, (,hree tiInes,) Lady
ksn,ou, pashlight. Bertrand, jr., (twice.) Yer.
tummes, g., &c. He mover io-> heat. aud was
rarely, if ever, put up TO his speed. until his ex
traordnary defeat BY John Bascombe in 1885.
the circumstances of which are familiar to every
one, Subsequently he was trained and run with
great success in Virginia and in May, 1888, on
the Central Course at Baltimore, after running for
the frs, heat of three miles and losing it. by II
head, in minutes and IS seconds; he won tho
second heat in minutes and 40 seconds, being
tho best second heat Of three miles recorded OF
the American Turf, aud the most brilliant per-
formance Of u.year, surprising all others, In the
richness Of lis annals.
During tho same week, and on the same course,
one of his daughters. Kate Scalon, won the great
sweepstakes Of $1,000, beating fine field with
great case, such coincidence being hitherto I'M
known upon the Turf.
ARGYLE stood but one season until the year
1910, and to u limited number Of Ma res, not many
Of which were thorough bred yet his colts have
won nine out of eleven races for which they have
been started, bea,ing at one, two and three miles
the get Of many Of our bes. Snons, besides severn
imported colts, some of them in first rate tmo.-
Two of his get, the "Govcrnor" and "Kate SenIon,
were unrivaed upon the Turf BY any thing o
heir age.
The owrar of xARCyr =: L:--:-- - 4.
the West, 10 the Cherokee Nation, presents hin
with confidence to tho Public, as being in ever
way on account of his blood, size, aud form; hi
performance on the Turf so remarkable for endu
lance, as well asspeed, and tho extraordinary ry sue
cess Of bis get;-worthy Of their entire aPprob'
Ior. SAMUEL MAYS.
Folt Gibson, c. ~, Jan. Goth lS45.
2--lilI 30ih June.