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"SALE OF S. L. PARSONS- YEARLINGS j Number of Well-Bred Youngsters Will Bo Disposed of By Auction on December 14. New York. December 4. The decision of the executors of the estate of the late Schuyler Livingston Parsons, president of the Coney Island Jockey Club and steward of the Jockey Club, to break up his racing establishment by a public sale, which the Powers-Hunter Company will conduct at Dur-lands Riding Academy the evening of December 14, will throw back on the yearling market some rarely bred young racers. Mr. Parsons, who did not begin to race thoroughbreds until seven or eight years ago, made a diligent- study of pedigrees before he ever entered the competitive market as a buyer of yearlings and Ills purchases of the current year were made with characteristic discrimination. The yearlings Mr. Parsons bought last summer are practically all that will be offered. The sprinter Riverdale will not be sold and Koh-i-Noor is the only matured horse of the Parsons establishment that escaped the incendiary fire at Belmont Park last winter. Koh-l-Noor is a three-year-old filly and she will be sold. The yearlings to be sold are: Bay colt, by Uncle Follies Bergeres. Bay colt, by Zeus Frances. Chestnut colt, by Plaudit: Maud B. L. Bay filly, by Sweer Ballet Girl. Bay filly, by Senseless Ghent Azalea. Bay colt, by Sweep Yodler. Chestnut filly, by Star Shoot Decoy. Chestnut colt, by Uncle St. Ursula. Bay filly, by Uncle Crazy Quilt. Chestnut colt, by Star Shoot Fair Catherine. Bay colt, by Plaudit Victoria M. Bay filly, by Sweep Hanrose. Chestnut colt, by Aeronaut Tranid. Bay colt, by Macdonald II. Melody. Chestnut colt, by Fitz Herbert Trigger. The imported youngsters of this band are the Macdonald II. colt, which has already been named Pibroch; the Fitz Herbert colt, which has been registered as Hand Grenade II., and the Senseless filly. The first two named came out of the Clarence H. Mackay sale at Saratoga in August. While the pedigree of Pibroch is French and English, Melody, herself, was bred on, this side. She is a daughter of Meddler Ballantrae she a Cambridgeshire winner in Great Britain and the dam of Mediant and she was sent abroad with the other mares and stallions of the Mackay stud six or seven years ago. Melody is a sister of Mediant, winner on this side of the Great Eastern Handicap of 1908 at Sheeps-head Bay and in Great Britain of the Stewards Cup at Goodwood. Herman B. Duryea raced her. Pibroch is an exceptionally well set up colt and he has shown speed of a high order in his yearling trails. FINE COLT BY FITZ HERBERT, The Fitz Herbert colt, Hand Grenade II., is from the family which has given Gunfire, Firing Lino winner of the last nice of the season at Bowie, Naushou, Hammerless and several other performers of merit to the American races. The Senseless filly, which cost Mr. Parsons ,400, is purely English. Mr. Parsons paid 3,700 for the Zeus Frances colt and this youngster was the best-looking of the sons of Zeus sold. Zeus, himself, is a son of Adam. He was a first-rate tWo-year-old and three-year-old, his last great victory having been scored in the Bowie Cup at Baltimore in 1911. The Sweep Ballet Girl filly is a sister of The Porter, one of the most promising of the two-year-old developments of the Maryland autumn meetings. Her dam was a half-sister of Ballot. The Uncle Follies Bergeres colt belongs to the family of Froglegs, Borrow, Dreamer, Slumber, Forget, etc., and the colt by Sweep Yodeler is a half-sister of Yodeling, Yodeles and Rakeoff. Yodler, which is a daughter of Meddler Yodel, she by Tremont, has proven an exceptionally reliable producer. And Sweep, sire of this, her latest production, has come to the front brilliantly as a stock horse this year. The Yodeler colfc cost ,200. The Uncle St. Ursula colt, a strapping fellow of fine bone and muscular development, cost ,100 and ho looks like a colt that would mature quickly. He could work as fast in October as any- of the yearlings William Karrlck broke at Belmont Park. The Uncle Crazy Quilt filly, which brought ,500 last summer, is of the family of Handspun, Tangle, The Squire, Tanya and Spinaway and the Star Shoot Fair Catherine colt, which cost Mr. Parsons ,800; is descended In the female line from Maggie B. B., his maternal grandam having been Saratoga Belle, the dain of Fayette. Sir. Parsons, himself, bred the Aeronaut Tranid colt. Tranid, -a daughter of .Voter True- Love she by Commando Citronella, was a fast mare a few years back. Sir. Parsons bred Tranid to Major E, B. Cassatta promising young stallion Aeronaut,
