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c li to |, of he I, I. I % f i I I I a i i i L . N | I j | , , I. | , . , , ; 1 ; - • ■ : 1 I I 1 i 1 • ■ I i • • • ■ i I i DEATH OF A FAMOUS BREEDER. Charles Reed, Who Created Sensation by Paying C 00,000 for St. Blaise, Dies in Tennessee. Charles Reed, a man who, in his days, had mock do- with racing and breeding the thoroughbred „ horse, died yesterdav at his home in Gallatin, Ton- in— ee. lie wa.s nearly, if not unite, eighty years age and a man of Strong character. At one time j, carried on thoroughbred breeding extensively at h ins I-airview stud near Gallatin, where in the .j tonne of his operations in that line he had the stallions St. Blaise. Mr. Pickwick, iioth sous of the , famous English horse Hermit. Forester, by the . Ill Used, Miner, which was a brother to Spendthrift, B ■• law, by Longfellow, Muscovy, by The Drake, , Kxili . by Moitemer. the Australian borne Cheviot , and others, as well as a big hand of broodmarea t unexcelled by any in this country. Probably Doh-l.i! is and Yorkville Belle wire about the host of j iin- many excellent racers bred al Poirview and .t grand ones the] were. Long since he had sold otf j tils horso.s am! abandoned breeding, hut lor many rears the annual sale- of lairvicw yearlings Wilt i affairs of great importance in tin- turf world. Of i the man and some of his adventures, DuUj Racing | .urn said iii a sketch published in P.tll: , "No man had a more varied career than Chnriej . Reed, He has been primarily a soldier of fortane , and always and ever In- lias been I philosopher. In j addition he has fished for pearls in tin- Puelge. dug | gold in Caiiiornia. shipped contraband cotton from | Sew Orleans, raced horses iu England ami both led and raced them for forty years in America. , having at one time a ::. •!: acre breeding farm near ; Gallatin, Tcnn.. which In- called l-airvieu. "That Mr Reed i- i philosopher may be Illustrated by manj happenings in his career. I pwnrd of twenty years ago the grenti M thoroughbred race l horse in the world was Ormonde, b] Bend or. out of Lilly Agnes, bredj in England and sold to Hon j l.oiriu. tin- Argentine Republic inancier and home fancier for more than 00,000 in American money. Mr. Reed wanted Ormonde to head his stud at Fair mow ami he did a characteristic thing. Saying nothing P. anybody about his destination he told his wili-lo get ready for a trip and deported tor ltiten.is tyres, with a letter id credit of generous propor-li. ns in his w allot . "Upon his arrival at the hacienda of Hon I.ocau he found that Tiltersalls of London had bought the horse tie had com. so many thousand miles to secure for £150,000 only a few hours before, negotiations laving been conducted hy cable. they represented William OBrien Mucdonougli of Caliioi nia. There upon Mr. Heid returned to-Ne.w -Yprfc. where his friends commiserated with him after he hid told of his fruitless mission. ■■ Its all for tin- best, sonny, its all for the ■ best, was his comment to a reporter who went to 1 -i-e him the day of his return. Ormonde was a com parative failure in the stud, his turf career con xidered. Shortlj afterward tin- sage of I-airview. a- be has been termed, secured St. Blaise, liki Ormonde an English Derby winner, for a single bid 1 of Xluo.tlirtt. The horse had heeii Imported hy the elder August Belmont and when on the death of that gentleman the Nursery Siiul was dispersed to settle the estate there was muck speculation as to 1 who would gel St. Blaise. Half a do/en men wanted 1 him. Mr. Reed sat bj the side of the ring in tweed* ; and -pats, with his square-topped hat he has his iwn hlock and they an- made special 1] for him —on 1 the hack of his head. Wln-n the auctioneer asked 1 lor a hid there was a Hash of a jewel on the Strong ; hand of the liroail-ehested man at the edge of the sawdust and a moment later tin- crowd was bussing with excitement. Ii was :i paralysing hid. that hundred thousand dollars, and it Won the prize. -It was said afterward that urn- man had come prepared to pay more than that Ugun lor tin- spies did -on of Hermit and Fusee. Mr. Reed ha- tignn-d 1 such a contingency ami with the gamblers act n 1 raised all competitors oul id the game with one gi gantic hid. In speaking about it afterward he re marked: •• -| earthejuaked em. thats all. Jnsl enrthqnaked 1 ess. " ••Ill.- world at large knows of Charley Reeds gaming connections at Saratoga away hack in the 3 davs when he had John Morrisej and Albert Spencer 1 ::s partners. II. ■ ran a square gasse. was the tribute Charley Reed had always been paid. Manx men of 1 standing in New York could rind their way blindfolded to r. West Twenty fourth street in the old davs. Like many another i Reed has felt lost 1 -ii..e the passage of the anti-betting laws. He is " -till passionatel] fond of raring, and last year after the season at Saratoga, when the tracks in this state D w.-i losed, lie w.-nt to Canada. His F.-iirvicw Stud 1 is a memory, his stallions and broodmares are gone, and life to the old man is uot what it once " was when he and New York were younger."
