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ELLER3LIE STUD YEARLINGS TO BE SOLD. There are splendidh bred voungsters of Itritish. stock, notably a cdt by Patymda* Half-a-Sltea, .nd a filly bj Sunstar Ascenseur. among the yearlings from Arthur P.. Hancocks KMerslie Stud in Albemarle County. Virginia, which the Powers— Hunter mp.iny of New Vork will sell to the liigh-• st bidders at Dull. nils. 7, West ilith street. New Vork. ii". t Thursday night. The Klldslie sale will be the ■ecoad important offering of yearlings of the carreat si .-.sou. Other stallions represented in the consignmi nt arc Vateaia, one of the best horses August Behnoata famous sire Hock Band sent to tin- races while In- ■toad in Kentucky; Trap Uoek, another son of Rock Sand and the sire of Lucullite, this seasons fastest two year-old; Celt, one of the most successful of the sons of Commando, now at stud service; Ballot, sire of Midway, Ticket. Bally, etc.: Fair Clay, sire of Stromboli ami Trial by Jury; Adam Bede, a Cambridgeshire winner in Kng-tead; Plaudit, sire of King James; Hi in, sire of He Will; Peep oDay, sire of Cock o the Walk and many other first rate racers; Junior, winner of tiie Manchester Cap in Great Britain; Santry, a son of GalUnate and alia of many winners abroad; Myram. a son of Flying Fox; Spanish Prince, a winner of lOaKMt pounds, and Black Sand. Not in twenty year* have foreign youngsters of high anility as regards breedteg been assembled on this side of the Atlantic for a public sale. The youngsters by Sunstar. which already has been brilliantly represented on American tracks by the I.awrenct Bulliathm winner Star Hawk, and the Middle Park Plate winm r North Star III.. Polymelus, the daddy of the Epsom Derby winner Ponimcrn and the leading sire in Giant Britain for the last three years; Adam Bede, Junior. Santry. Myram r.ud Spanish Prince, which are standing in Creat Britain, and Black Sand, which is standing in France, were bought at the sides of their dams and brought to this country to be raised and sold. Mr. Hancock, lie it remembered, has been one of the most liberal of American buyers of thoroughbred breeding stock since the preoccupation of British breeder* and sportsmen in war. threw so many stallions, mares and horses of racing age on the market a few seasons back. And he has bought with characteristic discrimination. He has nothing thi* year by his recently Imparted stallion Wrack to offer, but Wrack will be heard from later on. The American youngsters from Virginia to go under the hammer are relatives of such recent performers of merit as Coquette, Celandria, Red River, Robert Oliver, Paddy Whack, Embroidery, Gaelic, Green Gold, etc.
