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GOOD OLD HASTINGS GOES HIS WAY. Famous a; a Race Horse «jid One of the Front Rank of American Sires. Lexington, Ky.. June v Hasting., brilliant race horse and successful sire, is .lead. A short while ago he became paralysed and August Belmont dire, ted he lie lHiiii.in.lv destroy.-.!. Dr. lasses T Shannon carried out the instructions of the master of la. Nursery stud some four or five days ago, lut nothing was said about it until today. The bide of the twenty -four-year-old brawn son of Spendthrift and Cinderella was preserved and is now ai Rochester to be tanned and made into a robe, as was the hide of his celebrated ■tabtemate St. Blaise. Hastings won the Surf Stakes at two. Toboggan and lain. ..ut at three; li.-.i wiu Clifford for the Kearney Handicap; beal Ornament and Cteophua in a spring race; ran five eighths in SP% with l.SO pounds up; won a handicap carrying ltu pounds and was second to t.»»l horses in several important rates at four. lie was retired t.. the stud in lsiii. the bat of his progeny racing m MM, when ■eveateea of th. m w.-ie irinnrrr in IMS be bended tie- lit of winning sins and he again Stored that honor in IMS. Then was never ■ yenr when he was not well up in the lint of American sins. During his years he had an average representation of thirtj two on the turf each year and they woo collectively in that tune 8M races and S5-17. MB. Dan Morris left here this morning for Latonia with seven horses, including B. B. Anderson. Fren.-h Brooks will have Monday for Latonia with . iuht two-year-olds belonging to T. . McDowell that were not ready for racing at Louisville. but they are now lit. it is said by thane who hive ahsenred their gallops at the local track.
