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+ + TWO-YEAR-OLDS THAT WERE PAYING INVESTMENTS IN 1912 4. 4. The purchase of yearlings has been likened to an investment in a lattery. Strictly speaking, this is not title. Nevertheless, it is a fact thai sack transactions ate annually attended with severe disappointments and unexpected success, l.saally the high-priced Mailings are closely related to horses that have proved success fill in racing and as B04 always race tip to the same standard of excellence, the contrary side lieing thai Others which did not win favor in the sales ling prove of Sterling worth when put lo the conclusive lest of raciac. Last year farnisaed its quota of examples InuIi way-. In I.tll only eleven vearlings dis posed of at nubile am-tion brought ,000 or more and of these Christinas Star at 12.100 was the highest priced. Sin- was not a failure and laced in good form, but did not win as much as -he cost. Of the eleven highest-priced one- Cock o the Walk did best with a return of ,145 for an outlay of ."fl.LOO. On the other baud Insurance Man cost but $.v ami won ,302. Then there is Hawthorn, which cost D|v 800 and. he-bides winning ,063, has all -on- of possibilities in front of him in the racing of the future. The speedy Wly, The Widow Moon, won .0i4 and eost the comparative trifle of but 3S. Frederick I., brought 00 St auction and, besides proving one of the star two-year-olds of la-t .Mar. paid for himself ten time- over by wlaalag s:.74u In this nncertalaty a- lo outcome lies some of the fascination with which the buying of yearling- i- Invested sad other examples than those cited are to be found in the following exhibit: Purchase Amount Horse. Sex. Pedigree. Owner. Price. Won. Hawthorn b. g. Hastings Whit. Thorn C. F. F.uselieniever ....* lam 1913.sh,003 The Widow Moon ..hi-. 1. Stalwart Slippery B. F. Marshall I3u 4.ih;4 Vorkville b. c. Yorkshire Lad Susie Rash c. Ricblnga irsi 3.010 Frederick I hr. c. IMck Flanell -Ilnxie H. c. Halleabeck :khi :;.T4ii Inquicta b. f. fatherless ICrlerslle ti. M. fhjssa M :;.24; Cock o the Walk. . . .eh. c. Peep oThtj BBaagowan I, lohaaoa 1.200 :: 14" Solar Star eh. c Star shiw.t Sardine Welter ft Ward 1,500 2,820 Anna Patricia ch. f. Ormoadale Plumerla I. MacManns c.ii." 2,588 star of Danube ch. f. Star Rhoot- Blue Daanfce .1. c. Milam 330 L.r is laaaraace Man h. g. Hermia— Mettoa Mowbray Airs. 6. A. Farmer.... 80 2. :!»:; Velie Forty b. t. t eearhm -Pleasant Girl Mrs. ii. Armstrong.... iv.- 2.:!M Old Coin b. .-. riauiide- -Poeketpiece C. O. Reed 1,773 2.2r. Garden of Allah ....ch. f. Star Shoot— Frances Hindoo W. B. Carson l.V» 2 • Spirilla b. f. Oesarion Bight Wild J. II. Moody 133 1,033 Christmas star blk. f. star siu i t -Breakwater c. Woodford 2.Kn 1.018 Ralph I.loyd h. C. Maria Santa -Piccota Folev and Mizell 400 1 ,. 4T,S Sam Mirs.-h b. g. Klectiooeer- Carlhagena II. ir. AJkea To 1,853 Stout Heart ch. c. Stalwart -Two Heart II. McDauiel 300 1.717 Judge Wright b. -. Superman Debacle Tennessee Stable t;oo 1.570 St. Avano ch. f. St. A von lens -Orsova W. K. Kama 170 1,550 Hobnob eh. •-. Star Sh High Degree H. . HaBeebeck .... 1,000 1.4O0 Mama Johnson ch. f. Cesarioa over Mr-. !. Burns 125 1,438 Folly Worth h f. Cederstrom — Hundley R. Deem 140 1,300 ! win hr. e. Oilan.lo Irankuess Foley it Mizell 235 1 .333 Blue .lay hr. c. HastiagS Blue Jacket C. I;. Buscheinever ." r 0 1.330 Pericles deadi b. g. Hastings— St. Priscilla .1. W. May t;r.O 1,303 Smoke House b. e. Grain! Ciia.-te K. F. Marshall 350 1 27i Fink Lady ch. f. Ktis-ell Option ;. W. J. Bi-sell 130 1,280 Pikes Ieak b. c. Stalwart Ionnula Tennesr.ee Stable Mt 1,185 Loan Shark b. c. l.i.-sak —Wings W. Klliott ;." 1,130 Fred Levy blk. e. Dick Finuell— Hanoverine .T. W. fledrick 400 1.11.". CarpathUi hr. f. Star Bhoot Jaaowaod .1. P. Ross 375 1.004 Mollie Richards ch. f. Star Shoot — Silver Blaze J. V. Mates 27" 1,801 Fiel blk. g. Fatherless — Lizzie H A. R. Bresler 808 ll7.i BUa Crane br. f. Filigrant — Ella Duke X. B. Davis 100 1,M;7 THE REVERSE SIDE. Purchase Amount Horse. Bex. Pedigree. Owner. Price. Won. Monmouth br. c. Heno — Maincna W. S. Fanshawe ,200 Biennis dead eh. g. Hastings— St. Fudora J. C. Milam 808 $ 58 George Karaae eh. g. Ceaarioa— BaeerweD Doerhoefer and West 1,150 115 Peter Grimm b. c. Ben Strome — Rose Leaf C. Woodford 1. 100 1st; Carter eh. e. Colden Carter — Fair Empress K. Oavlord SoO 3gfi Fellow man b. c. Oddfellow — Ferrol R. OatStaa 1.100 400 Jiininie Oill blk. e. Fatherless— Sister Anna Doerhoefer ft West ... 1,550 688
