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. SEWELL PROVES TO HAVE BEEN A GOOD INVESTMENT FOR ROWE. Grant Hugh Brownes purchase of Sewell from C. which have long been distinctively associated with E. Itowe is taken by many in the east as an Indlca- her McGrathiana home. Her sire, Hanover, made tiou that the master of the Brownleigh Park Stable his entire stud career there. There, too, were On-In tends to enter flat racing in an ambitious manner, ondagas lines cast, and its proprietor has always It is now whispered about that ere the opening of had" a wise penchant for broodmares of the Levity the season of 1007 he will have collected a pretenti- family. Levity Is Sewells fifth dam. The Levity ous string of two and three-year-olds. Statements family has for several decades led all our female as to the amount paid for SeweH differ widely, but lines in its percentage of high-class performers that he was sold for between 0,000 and $.15,000 is For a season or two It has hardly been In its old practically certain. Whatever the price, C. E. Rowc form, but SeweH may prove the pioneer in a power-has found in Sew.ell a profitable investment. He ful revival of its best efforts. Students of the bought the son of Cesarion Ora Bailey put of the Figure Guide will note that family 12 is desperately McGrathiana Studs consignment of yearlings at inured in Ora Bailey. Of her ancestors and ances-the Sheepshead Bay sales last fall for ,000. Sewell tresses in the accompanying tabulation, Ora Bailey has brought him ,250 in prize money. claims the figure 12 through herself, Onondaga, Lex- "While Sewells Great Eastern Handicap triumph ington twice and Vandal twice, on Sheepsheads closing day was under too light a "Ora Baileys inbreeding to Bonnie Scotland is burden to suggest his. probable eligibility for strictly not without Interest a remark which also applies championship honors, his blood lines may well come to the fact that Florence was out of a daughter of under notice," says a student of breeding and racing. Weatherbit, whose male line is represented in the "Sewells sire, Cesarion, was a smart two-year-old dam of Cesarion. Faustus was inbred to Lexington, under the late Byron McClellands colors in 1894. wjtu a free line of Lexingtons sire. Boston, who Cesarion was unnamed until after winning his Sjre,i Lecompte. Glencoe sired Vandal and Susan maiden brackets at Morris Park, upon which occii- Beaues dam, in addition to being desperately inbred sion he started at, an outside price. Late? in the at the foot of. Faustus pedigree. Sleight-of-Hand Westchester meeting he was beaten by Nanki Pooh was by pantaloon, who sired the dam of Leamington, in an overnight race, but at Sheepshead he Cesar- himself doubly represented in Sewells pedigree by ion, won three straight races, winding up with the uls sons Enquirer and Onondaga, the former dominat- second section of the Double Event. Cesarion won lng tne mae ine- 0n generai principles Sewells numerous races in later life, his four-year-old sue- pedigree seems built on the old maxim of once out, cesses includiug ten straights in the middle west. then Dack t0 the orlginai Mood. But there are He was a thoroughly characteristic representative gt amnlties w"hich make it thoroughly interest- of Faustus. with ; almost any - Ora Bailey was foaled in 1898. Sewell is her which comes to the Lizzie u. tnue iurouBn uer m ,...,,, cestuous and persistent inbreeding to Gullopade aud second foal. In 1902, she produced the Troubado.tr Glencoe y Queen Ora,- and her yearling is a colt by Sem- "Sewells dam, Ora Bailey,, is. bred from strains pronlus." Here is Sewells tabulated pedigree: "Enquirer Leamington, by Faugh-a-Ballagh, ... . . , J Lida, by Lexington. "Faustus J G War Dance, by Lexington. Daughter of Lecompte. itLizzIe I . . .Lcreoimttii. .-.J. 1 Madam Eglantine, ny Cowl1. -3.: -. " The Sphynx 5 Newminster. by Touchstone. a : Madame Stodare, by Sleight-of-Haud s 5 I .. . - f Hindoo r Virgil, by Vandal. ; M r,. J 1 I Florence, by Lexington. fllauover. ...... A . :. -J -Bourbon Belle nn,e Scotland, by lago. Ura Bailey , " LUa U" by andaL . I fOuonda-a S Leamington, by Faugh-a-Ballagh. I Oration. J T i Susau Beaue, by Lexington. .... Bonnie Scotland, by lago. . ... . uve,l,le Sister to Kurlc, by Sovereign.
