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• i I I i l 1 1 : 1 1 J 1 ; 1 • 1 , J . , t t , I a [ 1 . • , I 1 f . s I i . -, , r CLARENCE MACKAYS RACING ACTIVITIES. New York. Dec. 21. — The attention of the American turf will during this week be focused on the sale of Clarence II. Mackays French-reared thor-• iighl.rods at Durlands. 5 West Sixty-sixth street, on Thursday evening. The year which is Just passing into history will ever lie memorable for the unusual volume and importance of its thoroughbred importations, but it has remained for tlie last consignment, namely of Mr. Mackays Haras de Fresnay yearlings and older animals, to create the maximum of interest and anticipations, and Thursday evenings sale is doubtless destined to become a historic occasion in American turf annals. Mr. Mackays patronage of the thoroughbred has been characterized by uniform success, whether as the active owner of a racing stable or as the breeder of animals to race in other ownerships. His own "turquoise blue, black gash and cap" was i •rut Been In the autumn of 1900. when Banasrar • introduced it at the Yonkers Empire City track on the occasion of his own triumphant return to the race course, and the silver tasselled cap made its last api earanee on that memorable July afternoon ! at Brighton in 1902 when the speedy Mexican achieved a brilliant victory in the colt section of the Brighton Produce. Although a period of less i than two years intervened between the successful I debut and farewell Just mentioned. Mr. Mackays Jacket was victorious in numerous important events ; — a career to which only partial justice is done by recalling Banasuirs Metropolitan, Brooklyn anil Toboggan. . Kamaras Bay Bulge and Bridge. Henos Dash and Matron. Gay Boys Partridge and Van Nest, Triggers Gazelle and Grand Operas Amateur Cup, while Mexican had already won the Expectation , and Double Event prior to romping home in the I Brighton Prixluce. Mr. Mackays first thoroughbred breeding stud 1 was established in 1903 at Silver Brook Farm, near • Little Silver. N. J., where his favorite racer Bau-astar was installed at the head of a stud which i comprised those erstwhile turf queens Kamara and I Trigger, with such choice native-bred purchases as ; Correction dam of Yankee!, Vacation dam of f Bowling Brook i. Suistin. Vanta"e and Response, reinforced . bv several English-bred matrons, includ-; ing .Miss Eilic. Oeatte dOr, Won by Waiting. Loch i Dee. Last Love. Botha II., Mistress Pcltn, Debacle, Heartache Manzanna. etc. Aeronaut. Johlcn Drop. Schulamite and Avisb n 1 were prompt evidence that Henry of Navarres ; birthplace might be the nursery of newer genera-" • tions of great performers, but the paddocks at Silver Brook were soon found to be too limited for Mr. • Mackavs matured plans, and. after purchasing Meddler " for S.-.1. Hin at the Whitney dispersal sale in 19 »4. Mr. Mackay leased Kingston Stud, near Lex-" ington. Ky. Here Meddler. Banastar and the Silver r B*aek matrons were soon joined by imX rtant accessions of native and English-bred mares, iunfire, ■ Fiocarline. Admiration. Keina. Ilatasif. Audience J and l.::dy Winifred being among the purchases of " American race course celebrities, while two F.nglish Cambridgeshire heroines in Ballantrae and Irish Ivy. an old Cambridgeshire winner i.t Spectrum, and several other English mares, including Strike-a-, Light and Wheat -ear. were specially imitorted for P the Kingston paddocks. . As Mr. Mackay embarked upon the enterprise of breeding thoroughbreds at a period and under cir- cuinstances which prevented him fnuii racing the produce of his stud, he was compelled to annually send the Kingston Stud yearlings to the public sale % market. The first sales were in this country, and some of the winners thus secured by American owners were Mediant. Affliction. Explosion, Man- raester, Orasmere. Projectile, Detective, Becky tlBrieti. Tattling. Hammerless, etc. In later sea- - sous, when hostile legislation had practically de-. stroyed the American demand for high-class racing ; material. Mr. Mackay sold his yearlings in Bag-, - land, where Melody. Kempion. Miss Malapiop. Mr. •, Peeper. Congo II.. Torchbearer. Spiked, Meddling. , Miss Ellen. Troubled Waters. Rock Flint. Sands of f Time. Medley. Fireplay. Sassenach, and others per-, formed with consnleuous success, and where Medi- ant. after winning in her native land as a juvenile. demonstrated her prowess by defeating large fields s in Ooodweods Stewards Cup and Hurst Parks s Champion Sprint. Back Flint was an especially distinguished - performer, his two-year-old career, including victories in Newmarkets time-honored July v Stakes and Co- .woods Molecomb. in which latter r event he defeated the hitherto unbeaten Craganonr, ■ s.dd for 50,000. after finishing first in the fol-. ■ lowing years Derby. With the increasing liostility of New Yorks legis- " lators in 1910 Mr. Mackay found himself reluctantly r -.impelled to transfer his entire breeding stud to n foreign soil, and the removal of Meddler and that t superb collection of lirtx dmarps to the Haras de e Fresnay Stud :n Normandy. France, was one of the e la-t and most severe blows which the American i thoroughbred industry sustained in that dark period. As at Silver Break and Kingston, so in France Mr. . Mackavs stud has steadily produced winners, nnd 1 Alliunctir. Junta. Balancoire. Tattoo. Missfire. . iotinier. Mediateur. l-ootlight and Marigold were ■ Haras de Ircsnav representatives which had already r earned brackets in France when the war necessitated I the suspension of racing.
