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JARDY DIES IN FAR AWAY ARGENTINA. Incidents in the Career of a High-Class but Unfortunate Race Horse. The Argentine has sustained a serious loss by: the deatii of Jardy, in whose brief career on .the s turf romance and tragedy played a considerable ! part. Although foaled in France, he was of the purest English blood, by Flying Fox Airs and ; Graces, the one n triple-crowned hero and the other an Oaks heroine. Flying Fox was an instance ; ! of bold in-breeding by Orme Vampire, and hud his ! peculiarities of temper, but beyond all question he was a smashing good hor?e. His racing career was brought to a premature conclusion by the death 1 of the late Duke of Westminster and on March 8, 1!00, when the historical sale of his horses took ; place at Kingsclere, in the presence of the lute ; King Edward, then Prince of Wales who on the ! same occasion purchased his own sister Vane for the 1 stud the Derby winner was sold for 37,500 guineas, the largest sum ever given for a thoroughbred at auction, his purchased being M. Edmond Rhine, most famous of French bleeders and owners. The ; Fox was then four years old and his French owner, would probably not have got him had not the 1 iow duke been abroad at the time of the sale, would gladly have left him with Porter to be ! trained for the Ascot Cup, but the veteran wisely declined the responsibility The colt was in consequence sent straightaway to the Jardy Stud to 1 stand, at a fee of COO sovereigns and proved phenomenally successful, especially for M. Blanc, for whom he sired in quick succession such horses as Adam, Ajax, Gouvernant, Val dOr, Jardy, Dagor and others and, big as was the purchase money, it was recovered witli compound interest iu his first two or three seasons. Born in the Purple. Airs and Graces, dam of Jardy, was foaled in 1S95, and by Ayrshire Lady Alwyne. Sho was bred by Capt. Fife, and sold as a yearling for 550 guineas to the Duke of Portland, for whom she won once as a two-year-old, but so little was thought of her that at the winter sales in the same season she was sold to the late W. T. Jones for the , modest sum of 4S0 guineas. She won the Oaks, beating a hot favorite in Nun Nicer easily, a surprising performance, and although she never earned another bracket, she proved a wonderful bargain., for at the conclusion of a barren four-year-old season, she came under the hammer again, and found a new owner in M. Edmond Blanc. She also was sent to the Jardy Stud with happy result, for it must have boon in her first or second season that, mated with Flying Fox, she produced the colt under discussion, which took his name from the stud at which he was foaled. Jardy was u first-class racer, and ran through his two-year-old engagements undefeated and practically unchallenged, winning the Prix Yacowlef at Deauville, the two Criterions at Paris, and, most important of all, the Middle Park Plate at Newmarket, for which he started a strong favorite, and beat his opponents like so many hacks. In the following spring the winning sequence was supplemented by victories in the Prix Noailles at Longclmmps, and although it was only by a short head that he beat Phoenix there must have been something wrong about the form, as a fortnight later, when they met under precisely similar conditions, he simply ran away from the same horse in the Prix Daru. A Cruel Blow. M. Blanc thon decided to make the Epsom Derby his chief objective, in connection which race ho has experienced the most vexatious luck but, perhaps, never worse than with Jardy. There was fever at La Fouilleus at the time, but Jardy left home apparently perfectly fit and well and reached Epsom all rigiit a week beforehand, but it soon beenme evident that the colt was infected with the disease, although the symptoms were only slight and, after due deliberation it was decided to let him take his chance, an unfortunate policy as it turned out. As a consequence odds were freely laid on Cicero, which justified the preference by winning, though only by three-quarters of a length after the Frenchman had looked all over a conqueror and the nice was his undoing, for the same night Jardy became seriously ill and his racing career ended. He could not be trained again as a three-year-old and, although he Avns being got fit with a view to several valuable engagements in England in the following year, he was not destined to fulfill them, as M. Blanc accepted a big offer from M. Carlos Lura for the Argentine, where Jardy perpetuated his fame by becoming one of the leading sires, among his progeny being the good horses Trigoyen, Larua, Bijou Royal, Aphrodite, Two Shepe, Heredia, Pisnuta and ninny other winners, If of less repute. London Sportsman.
