The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1889-12-11

kead's ST. Lawrence, dam of five in the
ago list, has now one producing son, three
producing daughters and one grand
daughter, Waterlily, by Hero Of Thorn
dale, which has been added this year.
SPrite, by Belmont, out of Waterwitch,
gets credited with her third ;3oPerformer
this season. Waterwitch seems to breed
on remarkably through her daughters.
Seven of her first nine foals were FLIES.
Another of the nine was Scotland, geld
ing, that got a record of AJAX. The re
naming one was Mambrino Gift, 2:2o,
foaled in 1866, now credited with six in
the ago list.
Cashier Cornelius F. Banta, of the Mer-
chants National Bank in Wall Street,
says the Sporting World, has lost by death
his trotting horse, Ned, forty years Of age.
When younger the horse had quite a rep
utation for speed and intelligence. and re-
tanned his health and faculties to a remark
able degree up to the time of his death
Although this is a long time for horse
to live, it is not an unusual age. The fol-
lowing instance of protracted longevity is
given in a French journal after the
war with France, in the early part of this
century, among a number of thoroughbred
English horses sent to the Hanoverian
Cavalry was one which had served in the
Third Regiment Of Dragons since I7g3.
In 1916 it was transferred to the hussars
of the guard, in which regiment it remain
ed until 1917, when it was made a pen
sioner, dying in 1880, aged sixty.-Ken-
lucky Stock Farm.
"When other trotting stations begin
to get ago or better performers out of
thoroughbred mares it will be time enough
to make an argument on the point that
running blood and trotting blood will
mix with good results" observes the
Breeders Gazette. in the case of Elec-
tioneer, all that he has done is to abso-
lutely overcome the running tendencies
Of some mares TO which he has been bred.
This system of breeding running mares
to trotting stations in the hope Of thereby
securing trotters was tried twenty years
ago in Kentucky and fonnd to be exactly
the wrong way. The breeders in Orange
county, n. Y, adopted different system,
their idea being to pile up as many crosses
of trotting blood as possible, and the re-
suit was that all the famous trotters Of
those days, with the exception of Lady
ThOrne, were bred in the East 1t is only
since the Kentuckians have learned to
let running blood alone that they have
succeeded in breeding fast trotters with
certainty, and there is not the slightest
danger Of their going back to the old
plan. TrOtting blood and pacing blood
work well together, but neither of them
will mix with running blood"
At the annual combination sale of horses
at Lexington, by Bruce & Kidd, begin
ming Monday of last week, 81 head sold
the first day, for ST. $50, an average of
$3I3. On Tuesday, "a sold Tor S,t,77o,
average OF SSS2. The highest priced ami
mails were: Teuton, Oh c, 3, by Ten
Brock, dam Miss Austine; Robert Hol-
loway, Lexington, $500; Winning Ways
b {, ), by King Ban, dam Attractive; w.
R. Letcher, Richmond, SI,25o; Gymnast,
c, 3, by King Ban, dam Hira 7. w.
Moore, Lexington, $500; Elyton, C c, 4,
by Eland, dam Lady Hampton L. H.
Stubblefeld, Nashville, Tenn, S7.55o
Prince Leopold, Oh h, by Doncaster, dam
Imp. Princess; Talbert Brothers, $4,000
Elias Lawrence, b h, ,, by Billet, dam
SpringlightIy Elmer Railey, Midway,
SLABS. On Wednesday, prices were good.
The highest prices that day were Budella
NJ, oh f, yearling, by Springbok, dam
Easter Planet; E. c. Hopper, Covington,
$1,000; Ban Boy, CHI c, 1888, by Imp.
King Ban, dam Ida Stanhope by Waver-
ly; A. w. Stanhope, Midway, $1,000;
LongwoOd, bay colt, gearing, by Long
fellow, dam Astelle w. R. Letcher, ST.
600 Brown Colt, yearling, by The Rake,
dam Imp. Flora Mcdonald ]. E. Mad
den, 81 900; Chestnut Filly, yearling, by
HindOo, dam Red and Blue Byron Nc
Clellan, $1,000; Ida Stanhope, Oh IN,
1873, by Waverly, dam Ada Cheatham by
Lexington Milton Young, SI,63o; Bay
illy, 1889, by Falsetto, dam Ida Stan
hope by Waverly Mike Kcegan, Louis
vile, $3.50; Kinesem, f. :, by Longfcl-
low, dam SylPh; James Murphy, ST. 500
Fauna, b f, yearling, by Longfellow, dam
Sylvia John II. MINIS, Louisville, 81, 275;
SemPer Fidele, b T, yearling, by Longfel-
low, dam La Sylphide; c. L. Railey, SS25;
Elknoe, b c, yearling, by Longfellow, dam
Locust; w. o. Scully, $4,000; Pompet,
black colt, yearling, by Longfellow, dam
Fuchsia; w. r. Letcher, ST. 500; Valera,
chestnut colt, yearling, by Springbok, dam
AalascO; Straus & Lyme, S.,275; Claude
Melnotte, bay colt, yearling, by Audrain,
dam Madamoiselle; John COughlin, Chi
cago, $r425; Avalon, bay colt, yearling,
by Audrain, dam Venista J. NJ. Kim
brOuph LEXINGTON s. 11r