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MBLBOlRNE FARM HORSES. f Col. Wm. S. Barnes recently returned to his home at Melbourne Stock Farm, much bene-fitted in health by a winters sojourn in Florida. , That he found much to interest and gratify him at home may readily be perceived in the following extracts from a personal letter in which, speaking of hi9 horses, he says: "I have forty nine yearlings by twelve different sires and they are a grand lot— the best I . ever raised. Prince of Monaco, my young stallion, is represented by about fifteen in number and they are very pro-rising. I honestly think . him the finest horse in Kentucky. He stands a sixteen and a half hands high and is a far better individual than his sire or his half brother St. Carlo. , "I have twelve foals so far, evenly divided in sex. Four-iifths of the foals dropped at Mc-Meekin and Applegates stud, J. R. Keenes etud and at H. P. Headleys two farms are Allies, and they have had at least fifty foals. Four-fifths will not cover the percentage of fillies. , "If you will remember Milton Youug gave a | season to Hanover for the benefit of the down-south flood sufferers. The season was rattled | off and I won it, throwing dice, throwing forty-two. I bred Bonita Belle, by Falsetto, out of the famous old two and three mile heats mare Bonita, by Lexington. Bonita Belles first foal was the triple stake winner Caprivi by that colossal failure Oneko ; the second was Beau Ideal, who was also a triple stake winner, the conqueror of Ben Eder and Lady Iuez nearly every time they met. His record with 118 pounds up at Memphis, 1 2 mile in a stake still stands as the record there with weight up. Her next was Ideal Beau, who was a fair race horse. These are her only starters. She foaled on March 28, this year, by Hanover, the result of the raffle, the finest colt ever dropped at Melbourne. Doc Hagyard, the celebrated veterinarian here, says it is the finest suckling colt he ever saw. He is good size, fine, heavy bone, perfect head and neck, th9 heaviest and most muscular shoulders and quarters I have ever seen on a thoroughbred. I would like for the public as well as yourself, to suggest a name, appropriate and saggestive. I thought of Luck and Charity Luck for me to win the season that could not be bought for money. Luck to have such a fine colt and Charity in YouDg to give the season to charity, "I have shipped my stable of racers 15 in number to Louisville under charge of Scott Williams as trainer. They will be raced in the west with the exception of four or five fashionably bred young fillies I want to reserve for the stud. They are all for sale, as I do not desire to race; only to develop and sell and then give attention to my regular business; that of a breeder."
