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! LAST YEAR BAD FOR BREEDER MOORE. Lexington. Ky.. March 3. — Charles W. Moore, proprietor of Mere Hill Stud, has claimed the name Tappington for the two-year-old chestnut colt by Ingoldsby — Virginia Moore, by Onondaga. This youngster is a full brother to Legend and a half-brother to White Plume, both stake winners, and Mr. Moore says he is of the opinion that he is the best horse he ever owned. "They say that out of what we sometimes think is bad luck often comes good luck, and I hope I am to have an exemplification of it in this colt," said Mr. Moore a day or two ago. "Tappington was the pick of all my yearlings of 1007 and I had him catalogued for sale at Sheepshead Bay on July 2. A short while before we were ready to ship the youngsters east, this fellow hurt himself while romping in a paddock at the farm and, of course, he could not be sent to the sale. He got over his injury iu a short while and I decided to keep him and turned him over to William Steele to break in September. One morning in November he showed us a quarter iu twenty-five seconds, and it was decided to send him an eighth the next morning. He came out with 124 pounds up and ran the -tancc in eleven and three-fifths seconds. It was not the speed of the work-but the impressive manner of the colt in his performance that made it look so good to us. I turned him out without working him again and he has developed wonderfully these last three months. I have never had the standard on him. but I am sure he will measure fully |£J hands. I will take him up in a day or two and my brother Thomas will train him for the present at least. I have not made up my mind as to whether or not. 1 will send him east. The probabilities are that I will, unless he should go wrong and not come up to expectations. "I will not soon forget 1007 as the most disastrous ear of my career as a breeder," continued Mr. Moore. "In the spring I lost thirteen foals through slips or death within a few hours after they were born. Then I had two yearlings die before I could get them into the sales ring. The ruination of Intense was next, and then came the loss of my stallion, Ingoldsby. which slipped on the snow iu his paddock in December, broke a MM in his left thigh and finally had to l e destroyed. We had him iu a sling, from which he extricated himself in some manner and laid down iu his stall. In attempting to get up he broke a bone In the other thigh. That. I think, is about all the bad luck that ought to be coming to me for some time." Tappington is the name of one of the Ingoldsby Legends, which were written by the distinguished English humorist and novelist, Richard Harris Barbara, whose pseudonym was Thomas Ingoldsby. So it is a very appropriate name for the colt by Ingoldsby, which is a half-brother to Legend.
