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FIRST IMPORTANT SALE OF YEARLINGS. Blc Band from Slue Ridge Stud to Ee Sold in Now York Monday, June 11. N.w York. June 2. The first af the great thoroughbred yearling sales of tke aeaaaa f 1017 wiB be conducted at llui-lands Kiding Academy. . w j • York. Monday evening. June 11. by the Pwwen llunt.-r Compaay, when the produce of II. my T.J Oxaards Blae Bidge stud in Paaqaaer County, Vlr-j ginia. will pass under the hammer. There are I t w. a ;.v eight yoaagsten In the Oxaard eamdgaaaewtl j fifteea fUlles and thirteea colts and they carry I ! the ! I of the stroagest thoroaghhred lines in! I the British and Am. I i. an Stud Hooks. The Ameri raa stalUoaa thai will !»■ repraaeated m tke sale arc Snp.rmau. sire of Judge Wright and tke brilliant ! two year old filly Kmpress. which defeated! Kucnllite at Jamaica the other day. King .Tames.] sire of Spur, the throe-year old champion of iat ■ arm n and one of tke moat formidable of this y.ars I handicap honca; Sir Wilfred, sin of the Futurity | winner of a couple of yean bad:. Trojan: aad] j I Angast I.elnu ufs young Back Sand horse ulcaiu, j a stake wiaaer of high auaUty m Frame. j Two stallion- standing in Great Britaia will make . . eouiributioiis to the sale. Owe is Adam Bede, urcatcst of the sons of Adam, the oilier Catmint. a son of Spearmint and a Good a 1 Cup and Priwrem of Wales stakes winner. Catmint is s. ml hag a fine haj rait, dam a young Robert le DiaM ■ mare called Arlette. Adam Bedes contrihut lea will be a brown colt of fine development, dam the young S:. Praaawhl mare Autumn. These youag-sters wei ■■• purchased beside their dams by Mr. Oxaard last year and raised at I.lue Kidge farm. Eiriff James Contiibutes Bay Colt. King James contributes to the sale a bay Cell from Adriin- tte. which is bred like Spur, a chestnut filly from Gatiea BeOe St. BeOaaes sister, th dam f Lena Misha. of wkich the filly is a sister; a colt fn.m Listless, the dam of Oolden I. it an. a filly from Letowaaw, the dam of the light fool. . Boly. Superman sends up :i half-sister of Sir Wilfred, a half sister of Orotund, a fine chestnut filly from Copp lia. she a half sister of I.allot: and best of all a strapping bay filly of unusual del elopin it from Lux Casta, the maternil granddam of Lacal lite. LuciiUiies dam, Lucky Lass, was a daughter of Ormoiidale and Lux Casta. August Bekmaat, who considers Luciillice almut as fast a two-year-old as he has bred in many years, is taking a keen interest in this Bmaenaaa — Lax Casta yearling. One of Sir Wilfreds contributions wiil be a sister of Trojan: another, a bay colt, dam I.ettie Bramble, bred like Trojan; another, a chestnut filly, dam the Watercress mare Proud Duchess, which can make good the claim. to being a half-sister of Bmpreaa; another, a big bay colt from Sandy Bar, the dam of Lady Kotha. and finally, a chestnut filly from the Lnglish mare Santa Catalan, which a few years back, showed excellent form over long distances of ground.
