St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-15
SPRING SALES.
Blue Grass Stock to Be Knocked
Down to the Highest Bidder.

Down to the Highest Bidder.
The annual sales of yearlings in Ken
itucky will open at Lexington, KY. on
monday, April 80, with Col. S. d.
EBruce's joint sale of yearlings bred by
/ different owners. In this lot, a small
one, are some choicely bred youngsters,
from potent racing and producing fam
lies; they are get by Jils Jyhnson, sire
/ of Jacobin, Juggler, Jubal, Red Light,
/ ETC., the distinguished racehorse LeOna-
tus. sire of the good colt Liberty;
I Day Star, the inbred son of Glencoe !:
T Bulwark, all of whose colts trained have
/ been winners: Himyar, the great son of
L Alarm; OnOndaga, sire of Yum Yum,
Once Again, etc; Duke of Montrose,
and colt by imported st. Blaise, the
Derby winner, an extra good one, with
large infusion of the celebrated
| Touchstone blood. In the same cata-
logue are three grand colts by the noted
Longfellow for sale privately. They
are extra good ones, from grand racing
families. Tuesday, April so, the
great WOODBURY., Runnymede and
Coldstream yearlings will be sold by S.
ID. Bruce and Capt. P. II. Kidd. The
WOODBURY. lot is choice one, fully up
to the average sold annually by this
popular breeding stud. They are the
get of FalSettO, sire of Dewdrop, Jennie
Treacy, Rupert, Fordham, Fresno, etc. ::
King Alfonso, sire of FoXhall. Fosno,
Joe Cotton, Lizzie Dwyer, etc.; Pow
haitian, sire of POteen, Duhme, etc. !;
Lisbon, sire of Troubadour. etc; Pat
Malloy, sire of Favor, Bob Miles, etc.
In the lot is a brother to Fordham, half
brother to Fresno, brother to Miracle,
brother to Falcon. brother TO the great
FOXhall. sister to Jennie Treacy, sis
ter to Alpena, a half sister to GlenmOre,
and others from dams and winners
The lot is superior one, in fine health
and condition, and many of them will
make superior racehorSeS. The Runny-
mede lot, we are assured by our special
commissioner, who has examined them,
are the most even, beSt-gIOwn and de-
velOped lot ever offered by this success
full breeding stud-nOt weak or I'M
sound one in the lot. They are
principally the get of the popular
dead sire, Billet, who is second on
the list OF winning stations for 1885.
He is well known as the sire of Vol
Dixon, Raceland, Belvidere. The
LioneSs, etc, and Hindoo, the sire of
the great horse Hanover, Buddhist, Hin
doc Rose. Catalpa. etc. In this lot is an
own brother to Sir Dixon and Belvidere,
brother to Buddhist. half brother 20
BarpeS and Runnymede. brother to
WaShburn and Bay Ridge, brother to
Bfahman. brother to Burton ana Mile,
brother to Hindoo Rose and Hallstone.
brother TO Catalpa. sister to Bedford and
The Lioness, sisteri0 the great Hanover,
sister to Perkins, sister to Jim Gore, sis
ter to Sunbeam, sister to Mia and Car
roll, sister to Servia, sister to Kinda,
sister to Spauldng and Peekskill, and
| others by the same popular stallion, out
| of fine race mares and grand producing
! families. The Cold Stream lot is not
| large, but is, as usual. a very fine one.
| They are the get of Hindoo, Falsetto,
Fons0, and the great Longfellow, sire of
| The Bard. Linden. Thora, etc. One OF
these colts is from the same family
which produced The Bard. and
1 the other out of a half sister
| to Yum Yum. There are some
| in the combined lot, the
property Of other breeders, which pos
sess great merit in point of breeding
| and racing lineage. This will be fol-
lowed Wednesday, May l, by the breed
ers' sale of yearlings, represented by
the Fleetwood, Kingston. Balgowan,
| Loudoun, LarchmOnt and Beaumont
| SIuuS. lliC Catalogue cOIItlHS HIIy-1Ve
/ head, the get of various sires. including
I Blue Eyes, Bulward, Duke of Montrose,
FalsettO, Fonso, George Kinney. Hin
doc, Lisbon, Pat Malloy, Spendthrift,
| Ten Brock, Wanderer, Longfellow,
etc.: many of them from the best racing
| and producing families in the stud
book. On Thursday, May 2. the Nan
/ tura, Bosque Bonita, Spring Hill and
Canewood yearlings will be sold. On
| Friday, May 8, the entire breeding stud
of the late John B. Wilgus, consisting
of tifty-four head, stations, brood mares
and yearlings. In the lot are some very
choice ones, dams of winners. The
closing sale, May 4, will be general
| combination sale of stations, brood
| mares and horses in training.