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RACING GOSSIP FROM THE EAST. New York. February 7. Tlie breeding bureau of the Jockey Club has lost two famous stallions in the course of the last two or three weeks St. Leonards and Alcedo. They were shot, St. Leonards because he was enfeebled by age and Alcedo because he had developed a couple of ugly rjnglHfii0? -Wjiifii jjttt,puly. incapacitated him physically hut rendered him useless as a stock horse. St. Leonards. one- of the most brilliant of the many good sons of St. Blaise, was presented to the breeding bureau by James It. Keene after a successful career at Castleton Stud. Among the. good horses the St. Blaise stallion got at Castleton were Oonroy. winner of the Brooklyn Handicap of 1001, and the successful jumpers St. Kevin and Sanetus. Alcedo. a son of Ksber and Elojvement, won the Suburban of 1901. He was a four-year-old at the time, ami James II. McCormick trained him for Louis V. Bell. Pat Dunne discovered Alcedo in the west and brought him east in the fall of 1000. Peter Wiuimer trained the colt until Mr. Bell, acting on Mr. MeCorniicks-advice, gave the astute westerner 2,000 for him. Alcedo was a good bargain at 2,-000, for. beside the Suburban, he won other important races. Archie Zimmer lias returned to New York with six two-year-olds, which he will train the coming season for tlie Hon. Timothy D. Sullivan. Four of llieni lie purchased at Pensacola. The other two were bred by Mr. Sullivan himself, who has the stallion Senator McCarren and some inares at Millstone. X. J. Senator Sullivan lias lieconie a horse owner again after a lapse of several seasons, because In; is confident that racing will come back as good as ever.
