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FIFTYEIGHT YEARLINGS AT CASTLETON CASTLETONAlgernon Algernon DaingerSeld Talks Interestingly of What He Saw on Visit to James R Keenes Stud Xew York March S Algernon Daingerfleld as ¬ sistant secretary of the Jockey Club has just re ¬ turned from u visit to Kentucky and is quoted as follows followsFrom From successes achieved on the metropolitan race courses during the past few years it is but natural that the first visit of a New Yorker in Kentucky should he to Castletou the nursery of all the famous horses that have carried the white blue spots lo victory in almost every important race of the easl easlAt At Castletou 1 found in the stud Voter Ben Brush Peter Pan Disguise Celt Superman Delhi Hippodrome Kingston and the young horse tltimus Both Hippodrome and Lltimus need a word of in troduction to the New York racegoer which will follow later laterVoter Voter is possibly premier sire of this truly won ¬ derful establishment His racing record and the success of his sons and daughters are too fresh in the minds of the public for him to need comment or praise and if reports from the stable at Slieeps head liny are Inu at least one of both sexes of his twoyearolds are topnot fliers fliersBen Ben Brush is sturdy and well and this sire without a numlMr is as highly prized by all Keii tuckians as any horse in America r rDisguise Disguise is one of the finest most thoroughbrod looking horses in existence Major Daingerlield tells me Iiu already is the sire of the best colt of his year as he was of the best tilly of 110708 110708Delhis Delhis first crop will be seen at the races this year and there are indications that they will be seen in front He has furnished down and may be described as a lovely horse horsePeter Peter Pan one of the greatest race horses the writer has ever seen is simply wonderful He has filled out let down and is grand in all proi ortions He grows more and more like his sire the mighty Commando CommandoKingston Kingston like the man who has lived well his three score years and ten Is now enjoying the rest lie is entitled to by his successes on the track and at the stud studHippmlrome Hippmlrome by Commando out of Dominoes both by Domino is the biggest in girth deepest in brisket and most powerfully constructed horse imaginable He broke a leg as a weanling conse ¬ quently had no turf career He has two colts and two fillies now yjcarliiigs on the farm One a half brother to Celt won the capital prize at the Luxlng ton fair carrying a season to Hock Sand 1500 in the largest and best field of weanlings ever ex ¬ hibited at Lexington The filly took second in the filly claps and the colt and fllly exhibited together won the hue ribbon in the sweep for two best by one sire in a ring to which weanlings yearling and twoyearolds were eligible Hippodrome Ifavin nothing older than foals of 109 109tltimus tltimus is a young horse by Commando his last colt out of Hiinning Stream He will be mattd with a few mares in 110 lie is very muscular and handsome and was fleet as a bullet This horse was one of the stable secrets His trials as a two yearold were truly wonderful wonderfulAt At the farm I saw fiftyeight yearlings Of the colts my first choice must he the bay colt by Ben Brush out of Running Stream a wellbalanced compact colt of tine size and strength and surelv a race horse He Is the oldest of tills really admira ¬ ble lot of youngsters youngstersMy My next choice is the chestnut colt by Hippo ¬ drome Maid of Erin a truly grandlooking edit two and a half months younger but where all look good the difference in appearance when in their lirst year is so early as the first of March much a matter of age and I desist from further compari ¬ son of the colts coltsThe The Voter Ecaterina fllly a brown is very beautiful and between this lillv and the fllly by Hippodrome Kilitlia the choice of most horsemen would probably lie The black filly by Peter Pan Blturica dam of Maskette is a grand big filly as Is aliso the bay filly by the same horse out of Kosegarland
