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1 . . • i i 1 1 , , FUTURITY AN INTERNATIONAL RACE. Best Blood of Europe Represented in Marcs Mated with Famous Foreign Sires. The Futurity of 1Jls tinally closed with a total ot ...1 nominations of marcs, of which, lor one reason and another, live were void, leaving the ll1 il ** ihis gratifying laereasc assures that the value ot th - big race will then Ik? considerably greater than it has been of recent years. Inspoction of the nominations is iraught with in-Irost. A striking feature, is the nominations of mares mated with noted stallions now in stud service on the other side of the big water. They constitute a considerable proportion of the whole, being eighty-five mares which have boOB mated with forty-six of the most fashionable sires of the dav in Kngland anil Prance. It is a fair presumption that the usual proportion of these mares will in due time bear foam, some of which may be de-i pended apoa to add to the normal interest always I attaching to the decision of the race. The forty-six stallions and the Dumber of mares in the Fu-■ unity with which they were mated are the following: Sire. No. Mares. Sire. No. Mares. Adam Dele 1 Meddler or Pita Her- Aloppo l i,Crt S Bayaraa i Myram 2 Bonaroaa l Negofol 1 Bridge of Allaa 1 Primer l Buckwheat 1 Prince Palatine 1 Cicero [i Poivmclus 1 Cocksure II l Qnerido 1 Coriander l Uuhelais 4 Cylgad 1 Radium l Duke Michael 1 gantry i leather Bed l Spearmint l Pita Herbert IS St. Amant I C rollback 1 Stedfast 2 His Majesty 4 Sundridge 1 Javelin :; St. Victrix 1 John OGaunt 1 Swvnford t Junior 1 Tracery :; Land League 1 TUllibardine 1 Light Brigade 1 Yalens 2 1-oiiawand 1 Willonvx 4 Macdoaald II 4 Winstanloy 1 Matchmaker 1 Zria 1 Meddler l This is really a remarkable list and gives the Futurity an international character for "the first lime in its history. The Fiisom Derby winners involved are Cicero. St. Amant and Spearmint and the St. Leger winners are Payardo, Prince Pa la tine. Swyaford and Tracery. Negofol won the French Derby, Qnerido won the Prix du President De I.a Republique and Maedonatd II. took the Prix in Conseil Municipal. In fact, there is not a bone in the list unorediled with great feats in its racing days, our own Pits Herbert has the greatest list of mares, but iitz Herbert is now a Frenchman and legitimately Included. Of the stallions Bonaroaa Cicero. His Majesty. John OGaunt, Macdonald II., Matchmaker. Meddler, Polymaths, Rabelais, Radium. Santry. Spearmint. St. Amant, Sundridge and St. ictrix are sires of established reputation. Nearh all of the others are young horses new to stud life, but representing the perfection of high-class breeding. of the mares with which thev were mated, twenty-two an- American-bred. Possessor of the most extensive breeding stud in North America and wisely enterprising in making nominations to stakes, it was to be expected that John K. Madden would lead in the number of entries. Of his 103 mares named thirtv-two wen; mated with Star Shoot, twenty-eight with Ogden. twenty-two with Orinomlale. twenty with Sir John Johns .n and one with Ballot, representing a staunch adherence to his own Hamburg Place stallions H. F. Whitneys representation of forty-eight mans goes to the other extreme in diversity of stallions those represented being St. Victrix." Burgomaster, Cylgad, All odd. Broomstick, Hamburg. Peter Fan John oGaant, Whisk 15r..oni II.. Spearmint. St Amant. Bayardo, Tracery, Greenback. Polymelus, Willonyx, Macdonald II.. Qnerido. Rabelais and Negofol. a total of twenty, of these Broomstick leads with ten males anil All Cold is Second with eight. Mr. Bel ts list of thirty si mares does not embrace any maud with his great horse Tracery, winch is represented in the Futurity by c. A. Ooeh-i ans expectant produce of his mating with Class Jug. John Sanfords possibility from Phillstia and II. P. Whitneys from Morningside. Of the icklinV Stables entry of fifty-three mares, Colin was mated with twelve and Delhi with seven other sues represented from this big stud of the future are Ballot, Disguise, Hippodrome, Ultimns, Hurst Park. Sweep and the English horses Light Brigade, Baatry, Javelia, TnUlbardiaa and Assagai.
