Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-09
ROCEMEADE STUD.
All the Brood Mares to Be
Sold October 10Th.
Argyle to Go Under the Ham
mer First.
Brood Mares by Derby Winners to
Be Offered.
A Full Sister to Hanover on the List.
Some of the Most Choicely Bred
Australian Brood Mares.

All the thoroughbred brood mares
now at Rosemeade leave today for New
York, where they will be sold under the
hammer to the highest bidder. 1t is
great pity that such grandly bred stock
should be sold out of this county and
even out of the state. 1t is great blow
to the breeding interests, but the die is
cast and it is now no longer any use of
splitting words. The sale takes place at
New York on Monday, October 10Th.
The New York Spirit OF the Times just
to hand contains the following editorial
about the Rosemeade stud;
"The sale OF Mr.. L. j. Roses entire
breeding stud in this city, by latter
sails, of New York, on October 10th, is
of such importance that it will induce
the attendance of the hundreds of breed
ers that will be gathered here from all
sections of the country for the Belmont
sale, which precedes it a few days. In
sending an intelligent agent to Aus
tralia to select choice brood mares for
the purpose of mating with native sires,
Mr.. Rose has inaugurated an expert
ment that is certain to prove fruitful of
good results and be of great Importance
to the future turf interests OF America.
Mr.. Haggin's and other California i'm
portations of Australian sires had
already demonstrated the happy eli
matte cross, through the union of the
best stock of the two countries, and Mr..
Rose, a close student of the breeding
problem, both with trotters and thor
oughbreds, saw intuitively that even
better results should follow with the
conditions reversed. Unfortunately for
his plans, other business compels him
reluctantly to forego his ambition, and
the whole of his stud will be offered
under the hammer.
Years ago Mr.. Rose possessed a strong
inclination to purchase Monday, but let
the opportunity pass, reconciling him
self later by buying his son, Argyle.
The opportunities of Monday were very
limited, as he stood in California at
time when there were few thoroughbred
mares. and yet he got Joe Hooker, Mol
lie Mccarthy, one of the best racehorses
ever foaled in this country; Mark L.,
who ran q mile in Al; Lottery, Raven,
Peel, etc. Argyle was a highly-tried
two-year-old at Palo Alto, but striking
himself in his work was bred to few
mares when three, the result being four
colts and FLIES. One of these was
Fairy, a winner of nine races last year
as two-year-old, and who has recently
made clean sweep of all the events for
which she has started in California,
running six furlongs in :141a, mile
and sixteenth in 80 and mile anda
furlong in :5516.
Rose of Arizona is by The Drummer,
out OF May Queen, by Goldsborough,
and second dam by imp. Fisherman,
winner of the Ascot gold cup in England,
and one of the first of stations in the
land of his adoption. The Drummer is
the sire, among others, of the superior
field cup in 1888. Rose of California is
Sea Kate, by imp. Ladykirk, and second
dam imp. Saucepan, by Colsterdale, and
tracing on the maternal side through
Grey Momus's dam to distinguished
English ancestry. Harmony is another
of The Drummer's daughters, her dam
being Mariana dam of Hilarious), by
imp. New Warrior, he by Pyrrhus I,win-
ner of the English Derby in 1916. Hester
is by Derby, son of Kingsborough, by
imp. Kingston, out OF Millicent, by Mari
byrnong. Phoebe Marks is by Kingsbor-
ough, winner of the A. ]. G. Derby in
1874, and goes back on the dams side to
imp. Cornelia, who produced, among
other good ones, Flora McIvor, one of
the grandest brood mares known to the
South Continent. Bessie is a six-year-
old mare by imp. John Bull, out of Az
alanche, by imp. Kingston, he a son Of
Kingston, by Venison, and her second
dam is Topsy, by Young Marquis, son of
imp. Marquis. The remaining Austria
liam mare is Gadora. by Jove out of
Heron, by Kingfsher, she out OF Migno-
nette, by imp. Sator.
In native stock Mr.. Roses stud is
equal to any in the country for its size.
Among these are full sister to Hano-
yer, a full sister to Badge, full sister
to Vigilant, full sister to the speedy
Eclipse, full sister to Jim Gore; Olga,
by imp. st. Blaise, out of the flying
Olitipa, whose Flash Stakes, half mile
= in Az seconds, remained for years the
fastest time on record, being only low
cred on the advent of straight tracks
Mike, by Wildidle, out of imp. Amalia,
by Salvador; Nomora, by Sir Modred,
out OF Mana by Virgil; Little Barefoot,
by Tom Ochiltree, out of imp. Allie
Slade, a frequent winner on the metro
politan courses few years back, and
Kinda Dryer, by Reform, out of Megara,
the dam of Spinaway and Fenelon.
These are samples of the twenty-eight
head of American-bred mares that will
come under the hammer in competition
with their Australian sisters, and they
should not suffer by the comparison.