The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29

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| ~ Ehf%tlM bic az they are rare
M VI mn AZ that carefully con
n q iNX. 1ucted breeding estap-
n ishment. Thomasla'
18th, 10 Ellerslie. by Eolus'
the s's',' lie uazelwood, by sca'ne'o@n
out OF ,'., rho noted War Song disu -,
seeonu u', ai,,, 70 imported Charaxus, anu
loa'i''e i" ,,i,, the foal died also. L'@N'e
sopse ,'l'sod the dam of Knight oil h''e'o
iia"e.'V - sbe best-known brood fnareS
ne ~ oorntrv died from the erect VI
III c.,tent in her paddock. Feaii'"s
an a." - colt nv imp. Charaxus. out VI
.-i,,ono nv Eous, and bay my Oh "
~. 80 and hv the same SIRE OUT VI
&c Grace. sister 10 Dioblo, are DOM
100 rho latter was bred on shares WIN
NJ 7 +. Mcdonald. Even al 'his poi''
.ho run of bad luck did not eease' -
araIlv the yearling sister TO mat eoou
race horse Eolan fell while roinplns
about the paddock and broke her leg. Inc
occ,dont has. of course, rendered her
ueeIess for racing. but an attempt mas
heou made TO save her for breeding pur-
poses.
The book OF Eolus Is full. and among
tho mares on the place heavy In ioai 10
him is cerise. the dam Of the magnihcent
race horse More, 1:lO. The great son VI
bennington. though twenty-sM years
old Is proving himself vigorous as ever
and il turning his mares of wen, Amoi's
the present crop OF fOals ny MIN Is very
fine brown colt out of Brown Beauty py
Reform. or Dainacordach, owned by
Henry Stull. the well-known equine ar
list. Mr.. w. c. Hardy. Of Norfolk, the
owner Of Cerise. has engaged her Ia
cfa1lfOu lives.
and afterwards he intends breeding her
20 Eon, who is destined 10 be the sue
cessor OF his great sire at Ellerslie
Eon served nine mares last season, and
got eight i'm foal Among the mares TO
ba bred 10 him this season is that fast
performer Belle D'Orr. That other high
ly-prized sire at Ellerslie. imp. Charaxus,
the beautiful son of Distin and Sanpho,
by Kingston, served twenty-five mares
in 1899, and got all, save one. Of the
number in foal. Montfort. the younges.
! OF Captain Hancock stations. gets a good
chance during this. his first season in the
stud. by having allotted TO him a sister
| to DiabIo another TO Eolian, and a thsyd
bearing the same relation 10 Lester.
Mr.. J. II. Wingate, Of Roanoke. whose
interesting communication relative to the
saddie-bred and trotting stock of South
west Virginia appeared in these columns
| last Sunday, favors me with apo<her en-
pertaining letter concerning the running
bred horses Of that section. which is as
follows:
| In ante-peilum days a number Of high
class. thoroughbred horses were owned
through this section. and the old Bowl
| ing Green course. located on the farm Of
Lieutenant-GO Governor Kent, about two
miles from Wytheville, was the scene Of
many hotly contested races between the
! then champions OF America. The war,
however, broke up the racing and de-
stroyed the breeding interest, and the
first one. so far as I can learn, to revive
the latter was Major w. c. Saunders,
who purchased in North Carolina a thor
oughbred mare and bred her TO Sultan
that was also owned there, and the re-
suit was a bay filly Dixie, that bred,
to Red Robin, produced the chestnut
mare Lady Buford. About this time NJ.
Frank Robinson purchased from Mr. T..
Lorillard the stallion Lord Gordon, by
imported Saxon, and 10 him Fanny Blu
ford was bred and produced the bay colt
Easter, that ran in Garth & Coles colOrs
and was the king Of sprinters at Gutten-
burg In 1881 and 1888. In 1879 Major John
T. Hamlet, Of Wythe. purchased OF the
Hon. j. +. Lewis the gray mare Dew
drop, by Engineer (sOn OF Revenue),
and the chestnut flly May Bulhnch, by
EouS out Of Cara Lisa. At the same
time Gen. William Terry brought
from Brooklyn, \. Y, Spendthritt, son
Of imported Bonnie Scotland. To him
Dewdrop was bred. and produced Coupon
in 1880 and Lucy Lewis in 1881. In the
| spring of the latter year Gen. Terry
bought of Mr. Lewis Carl Lisa. by Ken
lucky, or Censor, dam Fanny Washing
ton, I'm foal to Excel. son of Endorser and
Nantura. the produce being the chestnut
colt jim Beck. About this time Judge
Boiling brought from Kentucky the bay
mare Blue Grass. or Carmen, by Colt
ger. who afterwards passed TO Dr.
Samuel Sayerr; Coupon passed to Major
Saunders. Dewdrop, Lucy Lewis. and
May Bull6nch to Mr.. J. II. McGavock
and Carl Lisa TO Capt. J. r. Hancock
at Ellerslie. May Builhnch, after "A sea-
sons training, was bred TO Wnfui, and
the chestnut fiily Vexation dam Of Max
was the result. The following year May
Bullfinch was bred to Coupon and pro-
duced Repudiator, out OF Dixie. and
Fanny Buford. Coupon got Robert and
Fitz. Lee, and these two colts and Re-
pudiator passed to MIR. J.. 7. Holiday, Of
Fincastle, who raced them for several
SNtNAe Win FA'tf'1.
Dewdrop, May Bullfnch and Vexato
were the nucleus from which the For
Chiswell Stud sprang. Lucy Lewis wa
sold TO John S. Campbell Of Brooky
| Handicap fame who raced her very sue
cessfully at Brighton Beach the first yea
of his conversion to thoroughbreds.
! In 1884 Colonel S. ID. Bruce. OF Me-
York, sent to DR.. Adams, of Christian:
, burg. the thoroughbred stallion imp. Tn
Jacobite. from whom FIR. Gavock bougf
! him year or two afterward. The Jacs
bites reputation as a sire Of speed
well known, but l will add that out
Dewdrop he got Consolation, Jack Higl
e jacquelin, J. Mclaughlin, and the yea
ling colt Dewdrop's Last, at whose Dirt
T. She died in April, 1888. DewdrOp ais
e foaled while owned by Mr. Lewis Il
S gray mare Maria Lewis, by Eolus. wi
( passed TO ex-Alayor Nolan. OF Albany, ;
+ Y, and the gray mare Helen, by Afro.
= by imp. Australian, that passed TO Ca
= tain Hancock, and is now known TO fan
n as the dam Of the Ellersle bred winner
Elktoh and Spartan.
: The jacobite also sired Ella out
= Bluegrass, Chiswell and Artillery. a
q successful race horses, and the latter II
> busiest four-year-old Of last season. A
p, though growing in years. / failed 10 S,
that the son of the dead Prince Charlie
has lost any of the vigor of earlier III
OF the old lot Dixie Fanny Bufor,
y Easter. May. Bullfnch, Coupon. Car
v Lisa. Lord Gordon. Consolation. RepudI,
c tor, Blue Grass and Dewdrop have fl,
n ished their careers on the turf or in II
e stud, and have been planted beneath II
aA .rtIx~ oh