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FAUNTLEROYS SIRE HUMBLE WORKER Louisville Ky February S It has become known among the trainers at Churchill Downs that the sire of Fauntleroy one of the best of the 1009 twoyear olds will never get another colt Fauntleroy is by Little Saint which after winning in England was brought to this country and won at Sheepshcad Bay In the colors of Richard Croker From the latter he was secured bv David Gideon and sent to Kentucky where Flickamaroo the dam of Fauutleroy was mated with him himIn In the fall of 1905 Gideon had a sale of his breed ¬ ing stock and though then only ten years old 223 was the highest bid made for the English horse William Gerst the Xashville turfman purchasing him at Unit price For some reason the latter was not exactly pleased with his bargain and taking a dislike to the horse had him gelded and turned over to his brewery company for ordinary use As u result the sire of one of the cracks of the turf is today hauling a wagon through the streets of Xash ¬ ville worth about as much as an ordinary mule whereas if he was in the condition in which M Gerst bought him in H lie would now he as good n investment at 22 as was ever put in a horse ai d easily worth thousands of dollars Little Sii t was well bred being a son of the great Friars Bi sam tnd out of Little Emily bv Wisdom and on the dam side was bred like Charuxus
