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CICEROS SIRE SOLD TO SOUTH AMERICA. English papers to hand contain an account of the sale of Cyllcne. the noted stallion, sire of ieoro. winner of the Derby of 1!*05, for the sum of KSli.KK. The horse has beon Itought from W. Pi — by the Ojo de Aqua Stud in the Argentina Kepublb . South America, where lie will be taken next June after he fulfills his engagements at the home stud. Cyllene is thirteen years of age. and while at the btud he has got some of the finest thoroughbreds of the English turf. In all his get have won Mi races, the amount in stakes being 71. 2n~.. As a Jwo-year old Cyllene won the Aational Breeders 1roduce Stakes at Samlimn of S?2~.oOo. carrying ♦U.U pounds, and the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kemptou of ~.O00. He was not nominated for any of the three-year-old classics in ]v.»8. but won the Jockey Club Stakes of jt~o.O00. beating Airs and Graces, winner of tlie Oaks of that year. Earlier in the yi ar in the Newmarket Stakes Cyllene beat Jeddali. subse-qucn I ly winner of the Derby. He is by Bona Vista. out of Arcadia, and was bred by C. D. Rose, who Mf| him in the fall of 1808 to Mr. Bass for 50,000.
