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BREEDING BUREAU STALLIONS POPULAR. At the coming National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden. New York, the Breeding Bureau of the Jockey Club will be an important exhibitor in at least one class, that for the best thoroughbred stallion. The breeding bureau lias made five entries, namely, Watcrcoior. blk. h. 10. by Watercress Sabrina: Rensselaer, ch. h. 14. by Hayden Edwards The Belle: Shot Gun. b. h. S. bv Artillery-Princess Noretti: Advance Guard, ch. h. by Great Tom Nellie Van. and Accountant, br. h, 5, by Filigrane Reckon. Watcrcoior is a rich black of magnificent size and carriage, and has already won blue ribbons at state fairs, where he has been exhibited since becoming the property of the breeding bureau. Shot Gun is a striking bay horse that only a few years back carried the colors of W. B. Jennings so successfully. Rensselaer is the oldest stallion in the lot. being fourteen years old. but a fine-looking animal of rich chestnut color. Advance Guard is another chestnut of rugged appearance and has made a good record in the stud. Accountant, the youngest in the lot. is a handsome horse that Is well known to race-goers of the present day. He was not onlv the leading three-year-old of 1906. but in point of earnings the best horse of the year, winning the sum of 3,570. The show quality of the stallions that have been located throughout the state is only a small part of the benefit that has already been derived by the farmers by the establishment of the Breeding Bureau. Already, although it lias only been in existence a short time, the farmers have had remarkable results from the infusion of thoroughbred blood in their stock, and it is a benefit that will naturally grow eacli year. An idea of the increased value of young horses as a result of the thoroughbred blood is had in an extract from a letter recently writcn by II. W. Ter-penny, who has Saladin. a bureau horse, at Bridgeport. N. Y. He reported that he showed two colts by Saladin at his fair and one took the blue ribbon, while the other was awarded the red. After the show ho was offered 00 for the blue ribbon winner, which was only a five-months-old colt. Saladin h.is served fifty mares this season for the farmers in his district. Oakwood. which is in charge of Frank I. Holmes, of Mayiield. has served seventy inares this season, and reports have been made of twenty -nine foals of his get from the 1907 service. Accountant, which was not put in the bureau until June, has served twenty-three mares. He is in charge of George P. Mimson at Hempstead. Rensselaer has served twenty-nine marcs and On Deck is credited witli forty-throe this season. On Deck has also made a show record, taking two blue ribbons the only time shown. Shot Gun. which is in the care of W. A. Wailsworth. of Livingston County, is a comparatively recent arrival, but twenty-three mares have been to his court. Advance Guard has laid fifty-five and Mortallo twenty-three. Other reports are being made -daily and It Is evident that farmers all through the state are availing themselves of the opportunity to have the use of a thoroughbred sire practically free of charge.
