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HISTORY OF FRANK GILL. Frank Gill, the three-year-old ehesluut colt by Collar — Raretto II.. which won the Withers Stakes lor .1. I.. McCinnis at Bctaaoat Park last Saturday is the best of the six racers produced by his dam and undoubtedly gets his good qualities from his sire. Collar is by St. Simon— Ornament, was bred by the Dake of Westminster and was foaled in lvi:,. Be was sent lo the Kingsclere Stable as a yearling and started once M a two year old without being placed. The next season, however, he won the first two of his four starts, the second being the Harilwicke Stakes for gll£M, but he we. it wrong in his fourth race to the extent that the Huke decided to cast him out of the stable. Accordingly he was put up at auction in October. UBS, and became the properly of W. Allison of the Cobhani Stud for 83J5Q0. Mr. Allison is one of the largest exporters of thoroughbreds in England and he soon found a profitable buyer for Collar in South Africa and the coll was senl out to that country ia the winter of ls:»S. However, when the wonder fnl Sceptre, his half sister by Persimmon, came out in 1801, Mr. Allison was eager for the return of tie- horse to England and succeeded in bringing him lack to the Cobliain Stud in 1882, Uavello II.. a chestnut mare by Sir Hugo — Unco Guid. waa bred by H. E. Boddinglon and was foaled in England in 18Mb Mr. Boddington teatrvtd her foi his stud wilhout racing and sent her to the court of Earwig for four seasons, beginning in 1880.. Her tit st foal by this stallion was Ravel in 1890, her aecoad Vuravel the following year and her third Maria, in 1902. At the Newmarket sales in He ceinber IMS, Mr. Allison lxuight Kavello II. for .$.".MJ and sent her to Cobhani. where she dropped bet fourth foal to Earwig and was mated with Collar in the spring of r888. In the summer of that ] car the late John Han-ning. who was managing the American Blond Stock Age at J. arranged with Mr. Allison to sell some of hi- horses in this country and Kavello 11. with her filly foal by Earwig was sent over and put under the hammer in New York in October. Uavello II. waa knocked down lo Dr. F. C. Grcnside for .oo and the foal went to Robert Neville, of Virginia for if?.". That foal is now the four year-old Mary Hirkoy, which was not raced as a two year old. but started three times last year and twice this year without being placed. From Dr. Grcnside Kavello II. passed to Sauford C. I.yne and at Larchinont Stud in Kentucky in the spring of MM she foaled a handsome chestnut colt. At that time the late Captain S. S. Itrown was building up his splendid Senorita Stud and hearing of the foal by Collar at Mr. Lynes place he rode on. to see it. The result was that he purchased hoth the mare and the BoM tor 0,500. Ravel and Unravel had shown nothing in their racing in England neither of them ever won a race, and it was this that caused Mr. Allison to discard Kavello II. in 11M3. But the following year Maria came out as a two-year-old aad won two races in such convincing fashion that Mr. Allison sought to recover the mare with her foal by Collar. He located them in the possession of Captain Bream and made him an offer of ,500 for them, but Captain Brown would not entertain the proposition. Mr. Lyne. just, before making the sale to Oap-taha Braara, bad s».„ Kavello IL to the aoart of Allan -a Dale. T. C. Mcl vnell ieairfag particular!. that his good horse have the advantage of mares of her blood, for she has a cross of Voltijjuer close up. The i-olt. which was named Frank Gill, went ii.to the barn of Robert Tucker and the reports of his yearling trials in the fall of MM pleased Cap tain Brown, but the owner never lived to see him or Salvidere go to the laces, for he died in December of that year. Frank Gill started three times in the colors of W. Harry Blown last year, but the best he could do was one third at Brighton Beach July 14. Seven daya later he was sold to J. I.. McGiuuis for 5,000, it being at the same auction at which Thomas Hitchcock. Jr. paid S3,7M for Salvidere. This year and last Frank Jill has won :.7o0 for Mr. McCinnis. The foal by Allan a Dale, out of Kavello II.. is silver Cap, the two-year-old for which Bobcrt Taeker pail M50 at the sale of the Brown estate yearlings last summer and which he sold at Eouis- ille Monday last to J. . Perriaa, Jr. Silver Cup has not won. so the only winners cut of the dain are Mali. i. which has won four races in England aad Prank Gill, which has live victor in to his credit in i his eonmtry. Kavello II. had no foal last year, but on June S she waa mated with Broomstick and at the sale of the Senorita males last November was bought by i plain W. Harry Brown for *.:.S0O and is now at the Senorita Stud. It has not been reported whether she has dropped a foal by Brixunstick.
