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FAMOUS BROODMARE IS DEAD. Sister, Founder of Martin Doyles Fortune, to Have Monument to Mark Her Grave. Lexington. Ky.. June 14. -The famous old thoroughbred inare. Sister, by King Alfonso — Lena, bj Asteroid. Is dead of old age at the farm of Martin Doyle, in Bourbon County, ami her grave is to be marked by a monument as a token of the affection In which abe was held by the venerable Mr. Dovle. whose fortune she founded. Sister was twenty-eight ream old and was first owned and raced by J. K. Kelly. Her turf career was not particularly bright, though she wan a serviceable plater for four years, t-ln- became the property "f Mr. Doyle in the later lighths and her first produce for him was the noted rare mare. Sister Mary, by Woodlands. Mr. Dovle -old Sister Marv to W. C. Whitney for .0o0 after she had won him s thing like 14.080. Sisters other produce in tlie order of their mining were King Charley. Irme. Sister Agnes. |faT f.Hh. Prince of Peace. Lauretta Burke, Onrcv. Debar. Ovolandn end Orvieto. These horses, with the exception of Sister Agnes, which was never raced and is now on the Dovle rarm. anil Prince of Pence, which died as a two rear ..hi. all brought Mr. Doyle good money. Debar was sold to Thornton Moore, of this city, for .o K as » two-year-old and Joseph S. Hawkins, the present owner of Ivelando. paid K3.ISO0 for him. Orvieto was ohl for export and is now racing lu Germany.
