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CASTI.ETON STUD. Within tho past few days Mr. James B. Keono has become the owner of tho fine Caetleton farm, near Lexington, which he has for some years past rentod aB a home for his stallions and broodmares. Here he has a collection second to none in America in winning blood lines, and from it others liko Commando, Conroy and Cap and Bells are destined to come. Of this big breeding farm and its equine tenants Turf, Field and Farm says: "The Messrs. Keeno now have over 1,000 acroB in Caotleton Stud Farm, affording a big range for tho brood mares and colts. It is a fine grazing country and tho stock look remarkably well. Tha autumn leavss strewed the ground when wo drove up to tho old-fashioned houeo and woro warmly greeted by Maj. F. A. Dangorfleld. The first stallion led out upon the lawn shaded by aeh and maple was the groat srrinter Voter. Ho has just boon thrown out of training, and will be got ready for the stud in the spring. No doubt is entertained about his ability to sire the highest rate of speed. At a respectable distance from the heels of Voter stood Commando, another frosh arrival from New York. Previous to going amiBB he was regarded as the moBt CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAQE. I CASTLETON 8TUD. Continued from First Pag. formidable three-year-old in training. His left foreleg shows the marks of a severe blister, and Major Dangerfield hopes to get it into a reasonably sound condition with mud and other bandages. The Major has no use for the firing iron, the general refuge of the veterinarian in doubt. Commando will onter the stud, and is expected to transmit the speed which he inherited from Domino. After a years rest the question of training him again will be settled. St. Leonards, as the sire of Conroy, stands higher in the public estimation than he did one year ago. As he stood where the sun fell upon his healthy coat and revealed his muscular power and symmetry, he was a horse among ten thousand. Mr. James R. Keene writes that the best yearling thus far tried is the filly by Bt. Leonards-Splendour. Horoscope is another fine-looking and powerf ally-coupled horse. He stands 15,2 hands, and Major Dangerfield estimates his colts as second to none at Castleton. Bsn Brush, by Bramble, and Handspring, by Hanover, were led out together. They were earnest rivals on the turf, sometimes one vanquishing the other in stake battles, and now they are rivals in the stud. Ben Brush is of the cob type, and Handspring of the finer racing type, and it will be interesting to see whioh will produce the larger number of stake winners. Although Handspring stands 16.2 he does not weigh as much as the short-legged Ben Brush. Mr. Keene thinks very highly of the Ben BruBh yearlings. They havo responded favorably to the Bharp question asked them on the track. The yearling filly by Ben Brash out of the dam of Conroy ranks second in point of merit to the Bt. Leonards Splendour filly. Eighteen mares were bred to Ben Brush this season. The last stallion to appear upon the lawn in front of the house was Kingston. He fills the critical eye as no other horse does, combining quality with substance and poise with great muscular power. He was a picture to be indelibly stamped upon memory as he stood on the carpet of blue grass bespangled with the gold of maple leaves, and with sun shadows chasing over his rich brown coat. Thirty-two mares were bred to Kingston this season; and Mr. Keene has refused an offer of 0,000 for ten mares for him next Bpring. Castleton is now so well equipped with stallions as to make it entirely independent of other breeding establishments. "In one of the fields we found a band of famous mares. Lady Reel dam of Hamburg, for which Mr. Keeno recently paid 1,000, was conspicuous in the group. She looks well after the journey from England, and is believed to be in foal to St. Simon. Mr. Whitney, it will be remembered, paid 6,000 for the yearling filly by St. Simon Lady Reel, and Mr. August Belmont paid 5,000 for the weanling filly by St. Simon Lady Reel. Should the -famous mare produce a live foal next spring by St. Simon, Mr. Keene will have no occasion to regret paying 1,000 for the daughter of Fellow-craft and Mannie Gray. Field Azure, by Ben dOr, cost Mr. Keene 8,500 under the hammer, and she is a -mare that would- command attention anywhere. She looked as if she enjoyed the blue grass of Kentucky as well as the graBB of her native land, England. She is thought to be in foal to Lb Yar. Mr. August Belmont paid 3,500 for the weanling colt by St. Simon out of her. Optime, by Orme, cost ,600, and Sandfly, by Ieonomy, also challenged attention. The highest-priced yearling filly sold in England is out of Sandfly, and the mare is now in foal to Trenton. Some of these imported mares were inclined to fight each other, and Major Danger-field explained his infallible remedy for this state of affairs. Separate the two fighting mares from the rest of the crowd and confine them in a paddock by themselves and they will quickly become the best of frionds. The theory is that horses enjoy each others Bociety, and that the two quarrelsome ones forget their squabbles when restrained to their own company. -The two weanlings which came from England with the Marcus Daly lot the brown filly by St. Frusquin Semper Fidslo and the bay colt by Donovan La Belle III. are not as large by a hundred pounds or more as tho average Castleton yearlings. This would tend to, show that we can grow colt3 as well, if not hotter, in this country than in England, "There was never a finer lot of weanlings at Castleton Stud, They are: Bay colt, by KingstonCalico; brown colt, by Trenton St. Mildred; chestnut colt, by Isidor Starlight; chestnut colt, by St. Leonards Indifference ; bay colt, by Kingston Ella T. ; brown colt, by Kingston Katherine II. ; brown colt, by Hamburg Pastorella ; bay colt, by Ben aBrush Fairy Slipper; .chestnut colt, by Horoscope-Handmaid; bay colt, by Kingston Sundown; bay colt, by Horoscope Hope On ; brownjcolt, by Ben Brush Maid of Dorset; brown colt, by Ben Brush Veva; chestnut colt; by Horoscope . Lady Invercauld; brown colt, by Kingston ; Lady Gay; brown colt, by Hamburg Ship- ; mato; brown colt, by Kingston Dancing , Water; brown colt, by Hamburg Laetitia; . bay colt, by Donovan La Belle III. ; chestnut filly, by Kingston Bluo Grass Belle ; chestnut filly, by Knight of Ellerslie Fatima ; brown filly, by Kingston Citronella ; bay filly, Kingston CuBhat; chestnut filly, by St. Leonards Maid of Erin; bay filly, by Kingston 8t. Cypria ; brown filly, by Kingston Ben My Chree; brown filly, by Kingston Virginia Water; cheBtnut filly, by Horoscope-White Rose; chestnut filly, by Kingston Innerdale ; chestnut filly, by Kingston Rhodesia; brown filly, by Ben Brush Dart Maiden; chestnut filly, by Kingston Corito; chestnut filly, by St. Leonards Dutch Flag; bay filly, by Kingston Flying Squadron ; chestnut filly, by Knight of the Thistle Onom a; brown filly, by Kingston 3plendour; chestnut filly, by Horoscope Honey Dew; brown filly, by Kingston Bonnie Gal; bay filly, by Ben Brush Seeress ; chestnut filly, by Horoscope Queenston; chestnut filly, by HoroscopeErmine; bay filly, by 8t. Leonards Dusk, and brown filly, by Bt. Frusquin Bem-per Fidele. The Messrs. Keene, therefore, have an abundance of the best material for future battles on the turf. Forty of the yearlings aro now with Rowe and some twenty are at Castleton. It is one of the greatest breeding establishments in the world, and yet, strange to say, Mr. James B. Keene has never seen the place."
