Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
OLD KINGSTON IS
AGAIN BEST SIRE
26-Year-0Id Stallion Which Led
Decade Ago Repeats in
Recent Season

LEXINGTON, KY, Dec. 22.-Ten
years ago Kingston, the premier sire
of James r. Keene's Castleton stud,
led the list of winning sires in Amer
lea. This year the grand old horse, at
the age Of 26, again heads the list
with 2S,769 more than his nearest COM
petitor, August Belment's Hastings.
Kingstons first get appeared upon the
turf in 1898. That year he had out six
winners, which captured $29iS9S; in 1899
he had out fifteen winners, and their
owners captured $6S,92S Then came
his banner year, 1900. He was the sire
of thirty-three winners, and their total
winnings amounted to the goodly sum
Of s116,3G8.
Kingston's largest winner this sea-
son was the F'uturity winner, Bally-
hoo Bey, with $40,240 to his credit; Sec
ond on the list was the Belmont stake
winner, Ildrim with $12,7S6 to his
credit. Third comes The Lady, with
S12,709, which filly also held the dis
tinction of being the largest 3-year-old
winner of the season in number of
races won, her mark of twenty-one
wins in single season being a worlds
record for 3-year-old fllies in races
won. Kings Courier, who was next
in line, with 1881, scored his winnings
in England and was later sold at auc-
tion for $26,520, the highest price ever
paid in England for an American-bred
3-year-old up to that time.
During the season just closing the
grand old sire had out twelve winners,
whose total winnings amount to $S2,-
215. His largest winner was the 2-year-
old Novelty, with ten races and $73,-
40 win, which is $32,930 more than the
amount won by Ballyhoo Bey in 1900.
Kingston, although as turf per-
former ranked second on the list of
American winning horses, and earned
$142,562 in the eighty-nine races won,
had hard time to find a home in the
stud He was at first purchased by the
Belle Meade farm, but on going to New
York to settle for him and have him
shipped to Tennessee, f. NJ. Dwyer in
formed Gen. Jackson that he proposed
to race the son of Spendthrift and
Kapanga another year, and the trade
was declared off. Then Milton Young
of McGranthiana farm secured the re-
fusal of him, but that trade also fell
through. Finally the grand horse
reached Kentucky under the care Of H.
Eugene Leigh.
Leigh purchased a farm near this
city and established the La Belle Stud.
From leigh the famous horse passed
into the hands of James r. Keene, his
breeder, and has since made his home
at Castleton farm.
GREAT SIRE RETIRED
Last spring Manager Foxhall A.
Daingerfield and Mr.. Keene decided
that Kingston had earned well
deserved rest and retired him from the
stud and the old horse has since led a
life of ease at this noted farm, having
set aside for his special use one of the
greenest paddocks and most comfort
able stable on the place. And when
ever visitors are looking over the many
noted horses at this place they are not
allowed 20 depart until they have
viewed the grand old hero of nearly a
hundred races and the sire of some of
the best horses ever seen on the east
ern tracks.
Below will be found list of twenty
leading money winning sires of the
season with their age. breeding, num-
ber of winners, number of races won
and amount: