Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-26
THE ROSEMEADE STUD.
L. J. ROSE GIVES HIS REASON FOR
SELLING.
The Best Collection of Thoroughbreds in
the Countrywide Greatest Sires in
Three Continents Represented at Rose
meade.

The following letter has been received
from Mr.. l.. j. Rose:
EDITORS HERALD: As you say, lit will
be a very serious loss to Los Angeles
county" to have my thoroughbred stud
broken up. Perhaps there is no one
who understands that as we'll as do or
has deeper regret about it. No one can
understand the care and knowledge that
has been exercised in its selection and
what perfect whole it is. There is not
prominent strain of blood and scarcely
noted individual in the world that is
not represented in the stations and
brood mares of Rosemeade. Australia
is represented by it's best blood, in
Muscat, the sire Of the great and per-
haps the greatest horse Of the age, Car
bine. Then the Drummer Dunlop, Grand
Flaneur, Kingston, Maribyeenong, all
great sires and performers-in fact the
best of the southern continent have rep
RESERVATIONS at Rosemeade. Again Eng
land has two families which are promi-
nent above all others in that .horse.fav-
ored island. l speak OF Hermit and
King Tom, and both are represented by
several individuals which may be
claimed to be among the best of that
stock. The great Hermit alone has
brought to England millions of dollars.
Palo Alto, the most successful breeding
stud for the number in America, has
furnished goodly number and some of
its best; and America is represented in
the produce OF every noted sire, whether
native or imported, as instanced
bennington, III Used, Eolus,
Bonny Scotland, Imp. Eclipse, Alarm,
Monday, Billet Himyar, Sir Modred,
tralian, Lexington through his numer-
GUS sons, Glencoe and many others. l
have ever telt that this county could
and would produce the ideal race horse
or thoroughbred, and my experiment is
on the eve of ful6llment. 1t is ready
almost for fulfillment, and it is very
hard for me to abandon this enterprise
which has been in my mind for twenty
years and more. But prudence dictates
to forego this long cherished dream. l
am not as 'Dagworth," your enthusi-
astic correspondent puts it, "broke,"
nor have my lines been cast in unusual
hard places. 1t is rather an accumula-
ton of ills, which come like thief at
night, which bids me halt while can.
1t is one hundred thousand dollars
proposition and one year and half
before any income can be expected. My
years and halls are not so certain to
be counted on as formerly, and do not
think it prudent to borrow money to
carry this enterprise to its completion.
would gladly carry, say, one-fourth of
it, bat deem it an impossibility to have
parties take the other seventy-five
thousand dollars, for our country
where it has enterprise enough,
]iberality enough, patriotism if
you choose) enough, the mate
rial OF war, money" unfortunately
is the scarce necessity. l believe it
would pay and possibly pay big, but
even were this certainly, and l be-
lieve it reasonable certainty, yet even
certain profits have to be foregone by
want of money. l feel that can't af-
ford to take risks which would endanger
even Rosemeade, and desire and senti-
ment have to stand aside for prudence.
There has been so much wonderment.
80 much surmising why l sell, that /
have thought it sufficient to make this
explanation. My racing venture has
nothing to do with it, for made some
money. / did not make as much as /
had hoped for, for the possibilities are
very great, but the Imagination plays
many tricks OF disappointment, and l
did not make hundred thousand dol
lars "a possibility, yet did better than
the majority. Having been success in
small way, | believe in exercising dis
cretion which the adage says is the bet
ter part Of valor, and retire from racing,
although the breeding and selling OF
yearings l abandon with much reluc-
tance and with a firm belief that it
would pay, and the probability is that
it would make Los Angeles county the
foremost county in the world as horse
county. The trotting interest has al
ready made large strides in that direc-
ton. As you say, there are millions
in it," L. J. ROSE.
It's Excellent Qualities