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FRANK GILLS ANCESTRY. There is an interesting episode In connection . with Frank Gill. Ravello II., the dam of Frank. Gill, is -.in English mare of excellent breeding, and When she is offered for sale at the dispersal sale of Senorita Stud the latter part of this month there is almost sure to be a goood-slzed commission from England for the mare. Brought to this country three years ago among a mixed lot of English stock, Ravello II. was bought by Sanford C. Lyne for a few hundred dollars. She had been bred to Collar, but there was some loubt that she was in foal. But the following spring Ravello II. dropped a good-looking chestnut colt. The late Captain Sam Brown was at that rime paying fancy, prices, for mares to stock Senorita Stud. Sanford Lyne caUed his attention to Ravello II. and her smart-looking foal, and was able to sell the mare and foal for a handsome profit. News of the promising foal by Collar Ravello II. -.vas carried to England, and the breeders ,therc suddenly awoke to the fact that they had in all probability let a prize slip them. Collar, too, was coming to the front as a sire by this time, and William Allison, of Cobham Stud, where Collar stands,- made overtures to Captain Brown for the purchase of the mare. But Captain Brown concluded that If Uavello II. was so highly prized in England she was all the more valuable to him just at the time he was getting together the best band of stud matrons that money could buy, and turned down a handsome offer for the mare. Collar, the sire of Frank Gill, Is by St. Simon-Ornament, and Is closely related to the great Sceptre, which made several fortunes for that spectacular, but at present ostracised English- turfman, Robert Sievier. Collar stands at 51 guineas, and his book is already filled for 1907.
