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PERUVIAN BUYER IN NEW YORK. Belmonts String To Be Sent to South Carolina to Pass the Winter. New York. December S. M. A. Silvers, of Lima, Peru, agent of the Lima Jockey Ciub. arrived in New York last Sunday on the steamer Panama. Mr. Silvers paid a visit to this country last -summer and purchased quite a number of horses, which were shipped to Peru and sold by the Lima Jockey Club to improve the breed of South American horses. Mr. Silvers was very successful in conducting that shipment of thoroughbreds, making the trip in sixteen days of actual traveling, with all the horses in good health and without the loss of a single one. On this trip Mr. Silvers will purchase a few more horses, including a sprinter and a driving horse. The horses which August Belmont will ship to Garnet. S. .. December 1!. in charge of trainer J. Whalon. include Field Mouse. Half Sovereign, Don Diego. Mclodeon, Goodheart and Practical, besides eight yearlings. One of the yearlings is a filly by Octagon, and the other seven are bv the leading sire of 1008. the reliable Hastings. Trainer Whalen. who has been connected with the Belmont stable for many a year, says that he never had a more likely looking lot of yearlings. They arc as yet unnamed, but their breeding is as follows: Chestnut colt, toy Hastings Sunfish. Bay gelding, by Hastings St. Agues. Brown eolt. by Hastings Dulclbella. Bay gelding, by Hastings Aurata. Bay gelding, by Hastings Sourlante. Chestnut colt, by Hastings Glory. Brown filly, by Hastings -Sotiveraine. Bay lillv. by Octagon Lucy Cross. The chestnut colt by Hastings Glory is a full brother to Gloritier. the winner of the Metropolitan and Carter Handicaps, besides numerous other stakes, and greatly resembles that magnificent racer. The colt has showed considerable speed in liis trials and may prove a worthy successor of his famous sire. J. L. McGinnis speaks highly of the Run of Luck weanling, which he recently purchased at the Kentucky sales, and things ho landed a prize. Mr. McGinnis shipped Frank Gill to Kentucky Monday evening, where he will be placed in the stud. Henry Spencers younger brother. Lester, who has been riding in foreign lands for the past six years, did not return home for the winter holidays. Lester has been riding in Italy, where he was at the head if the list of winning jockeys during the past season. Spencer is under contract to Signer Ronald, who has a very extensive stable in that country. Young Spencer at one time rode for Barney Schrei-ber and is said to be the only American boy now riding in Italy. Trainer Fred Slattery and James McLaughlin. Jr., will sltip several horses to Savannah next week. For the first time in his career Silas Veitcli is practically without a stable of cross-country horses. The only horse under his care at the present time is the old juniper. Grandpa. Superintendent W. A. Gormau. of the Belmont Park track, is slowly recovering from a severe attack of illness.
