The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26
NEWS OF HORSES
AND H0Rs Fl |. i
Pelham Farm, Home 81 Imported
Comfort, Arlington and
Others Of Note.
ENGLISH VIEW OF ELLERsLlE-
Lcesburg Horse showJ1iininy
Lane-Ntiss Nelson a Brood
Mare Now-Winncrs.

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Writing from Pelham Farm. which is
near Melbourne, in Loudoun county. aud
one OF the best known of Virginia breed
ling establishments, Mr.. Robert Nevilie
says: 3.'My horses have wintered nicely.
Which applies not only to those Intended
for training and racing this season. but
to the stations, brood mares and young
things as we'll. The stations In use are
the imported horses Contract son OF
lsononiy and Wedding Ring by Hampton.
and Arlington, by Melton, dam Annette,
BY The Speaker i expect good results
from them. crossed on mares by imp.
Rigoletto, the dead son Of rrocadeip and
RENE de Saba. who formerly ruled as
premier sire at Pelham. White Car
ters by Rigoletto, dam Festa, by Gates
by, the former good stceplechaser, is now
brood mare at the farm and her first
foal now three years old, BY Ardlngton,S
will be raced this fall. l have eighteen
brood mares selected from the best jump
ing families in England and America. IN
the training stable are sixteen horses, OF
(which three are imported, but the latter
as yet have shown no superiority over.
the native bred products. Among the get
Vestment, the crack steeplechaser OF 1895,
and Parson Kelly. Vestment Is out of
the Pelham Farm brood marc, Vestalia,s
dam of Eophone and Tentore. while PAR
son Kelly has for a dam Arrogance, the
daughter of Emperor and Disdain, by imp.
Noccasn. i enclose tabulated pedigree
OF Contract. whose get / like very much
and think he will certainly suit race
horses. His daughter, Woodclaim, out
OF Wood Lodge. by imp. Woodlands, was
raced In 1908 as two-year-old5 and won
eight races
In referring to the Elerslie Stud of
r. J. Hancock and Son. Charlottesville,
va, in the London Sportsman, the well
known English writer. 'Vigilant,. says
| las Is pretty well known. the horse to
| make the name ofs this Virginia stud was
[ Eolus. the son of&Leamington and Fanny
| Washington, by Revenue. who has gone
| the way Of all flesh; but there Is every
Ifhope that his place will & be worthily7
1 filled by Fatherless n The best perform
8ance Of this stout son Of Isonomy and
| Orphan Agnes, by Spectrum. was accom-
| plished in the Great Metropolitan Stakes
1 Of 1896 The favorite, was Lord William
| Beresford's Paris ] IL, who. In spite OF
| a ten-pound penalty for his victory IN
1.-THE Northamptonshire Stakes, which
raised his weight to est Obj. started a hot;
4 favorite at Q to /. About Fatherless,s
i who carried the colors of the late Mr..
4 w. NJ. Redfern, the useful odds of 10 to
4 Ii were obtainable. and he Won by a
i length and a half from. The Rays.
4 Amongst the unplaced lot was Cypria,t
who had run a dead hea for tho Ccsare-5
4 witch three years previously. as well as
4 useful animals like Bach and Opera
4 Glass. The first Of the get Of Fatherless,5
who are now three years old. include
A Workman, Red Reynard and Gfistiss, who
4 are all good winners. and | am informed
1 that his two-year-olds and yearlings are
i equally & promising According to an.
/. American paper, yearllngs are timed in
4 their work over there IS well as p tie
older horses. and several Of them by
$Fatherless were clicked as running
i quarter Of a mile s,ins 0:24, two Of them
i being inside that time The horses sub
4 scription is full for the present season.
and he looks like worthily carrying on
the sterling line in America. The other
stations at the Ellerslie Stud are Eon
d and Aureus. both of them being sons
OF Eolus. They are advertised Mt 500
and $50, respectively, with return prlvl-
3l5lege,', whatever that may mean.
4 Leesburg's annual Horse Show will be