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PARMER TO ABANDON HORSE BREEDING Yearlings to Bo Sold at Saratoga and Sires, Maros and Foal3 Later On. When Walter O. Parmer, the genius of the Windsor race track offers his thoroughbred yearlings at public auction at Saratoga on August 1, through the Powers-Hunter Company, of New York, he will, in all likelihood, offer the last yearlings that will come to the eastern market from the once-famous Belle Meade Stud at Nashville, which was founded by the late General William Harding and was for twenty years the home of Iroquois, the only American-bred race horse that has yet won the Epsom Derby. Mr. Parmer, who formerly bred his yearlings at Edenwold, bought Belle Meade a couple of years ago with the intention of restoring it to its old place as a thoroughbred nursery. Ho has changed his mind since then. The stallions and broodmares, with all foals and weanlings at Belle Meade are to be sold later in the year by the Powers-Hunter Company. For many years The Commoner, one of, the greatest sons of Hanover, was the head of the Parmer stud, and the Edenwold stallion, whose yearlings were most sought for by horsemen. The Commoner is dead now. The last of his got were sold at Saratoga last year. The youngsters Mr. Parmer will offer at the coming sale are mostly sons and daughters of the English stallion Assagai, a sou of Spearmint Charm, she a daughter of St. Simon, which Mr. Parmer brought over from Great Britain a few years ago. Assagai, a nicer of parts which was prevented by the injuring of a ligament in one of his legs from really fulfilling his destiny, is a grandson in the maternal line of Tact, whose grandsons and granddaughters have won about 00,000 in Great Britain, Ireland and France. He is a horse of striking individuality, robust and virile, and a uniform breeder. Of the seventeen youngsters by Assagai that will go under the hammer the first Saturday of the Saratoga meeting, ten are fillies and seven are colts. One of the colts is a bay, dam Touch Not, the dam of Touch Me, Notasulga, Commoners Touch and Great Britain, he the long-distance champion of Canada for two years. This is a youngster of splendid size and good proportions. A colt, dam Nevada, is a half-brother of the winners Commodore and Commonada; another, dam Luckless, is a half-brother of Friendless, one of the fastest two-year-olds that raced .last year and, in addition to these, there, are half-brothers of Ben Hodder7 Argument and Ivanetto. Offspring of Assagai Unusually Virile. Assagai is what the breeding experts call a pure dominant, that is to say, he breeds to one color. His fillies, like his colts, are bays. And a horse that so marks his offspring is believed to be unusually virile. Among the eleven bay fillies are a half-sister of Ed Roche, a half-sister of General Neville, a daughter of Hawkslight, she a half-sister of Lucky Lass, the dam of August Belmonts brilliant two-year-old Lucullitc; a half-sister of Miss Gayle and Dimity, and a half-sister of Icicle aud Antiseptic. Other stallions that will be represented in the sale are Vulcain, a brilliant young son of Rock Sand, Mr. Belmont is headlining at his Nursery Stud in Kentucky; Ballot, sire of Ticket, Ballad, Bally and Midway; Trap Rock, sire of Daddys Choice and Lucullite; Sain, sire of Jack Atkin and Ncalon; Dr. Boots and Duke of Ormonde. It is a pretty sure thing that there will be a scramble for the representative of Vulcain, for this one is no less than a half-brother of the brilliant Roamer. This youngster is a bay colt and he is already as big as Roamer was, when the late Woodford Clay brought him to the races as a two-year-old. He is bigger-boned also and better coupled than Roamer. Ballots contribution is a bay filly, dam the Trenton mare Colonial, which has already sent Hessian, a good race horse himself, and the sire of Boots, a still better one, and Airman to the American races. And this miss is good to look at. Trap Rocks representatives are fillies, - dam Hor-tensia, the dam of Commcnsia and Marlauao, and dam Highflown. Sain is represented by a filly, dam Florentia, a daughter of the line of Firenze and Boots and the dam of Grumpy, and Duke of Ormonde by a bay colt, dam Mercadel, she a sister of Countless, a Saratoga Cup winner.
