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HISTORY ATTACHED TO MISS HUDSON Dam of The Spinner Came Near Being Sold to Some Farmer or Peddler. By Ed Cole. Saratoga, N. Y., August 11. Quite a bit of history .is attached to the broodmare Miss Hudson, the dam of The Spinner, showing the luck attached to breeding race horses. Miss Hudson is twenty-three years old and was considered too old for further service on the Barbee farm. At the annual cleaning out sale the old mare, which was supposed to be barren after having been served for the second time by Textile, was put up at auction. Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield, with her sympathetic nature, rather than see Miss Hudson so to some farmer or huckster for utility purposes, . bought her for 5, intending to give her a life of ease on the farm as recompense for her past good ser.viees. Miss Hudson had not been long on the farm, before she showed signs of foaling. In the" meantime Mr. Thomas Mbnahan, the owner of Textile," had forwarded to Miss Daingerfield the 5 that .she had paid for the mare. He did not wish the lady to be at the expense of boarding Miss Hudson for life after she had given such a good colt as The Spinner. It was a lucky piece of philanthropy for Mr. Monnhau, for. in due time. Miss Hudson gave a fine-looking foal, a brother to The Spinner. . "It -was charity. to give the bid mare a home," said Mr. Monalian. "Now you see what she has done in return. It" may be she has produced as good a horse as The Spinner I have been offered 5,000 for him. It only sh6ws that folk should appreciate what has been done for them. Had it not been for :Miss Daingcrfields sympathy Miss Hudson might have gone into tlie hands of some farmer or iieddler; and goodness knows what would Iiave become of her or the colt. "It also proves the vitality of Textile. I now have seven yarlings by him and all of them colts. This is an extraordinary showing.. During the coming year I am going to select some tiptop mares for him and will be much surprised if he docs not produce some topnotch horses. I intended to retire from racing to a great extent two years ago, but Textile has brought me back into it again, and I am more pleased than ever now that I can" breed my own horses, for it is certainly an interesting part of the sport. "I dont know whether I shall race horses in my colors again, as Aiidrew Miller, who has been my partner, is more capable than I am in looking after their welfare. It doesnt mutter much to me what colors horses carry as long as I am concerned in tlieir running and future. Yet I might unhook my colors some day and hand, them to a jockey when I am convinced 1 have a high-class horse of my own breeding to carry them."
