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HENRY WATERSONS BREEDING PLANS Owner of Mirasol Stable to Establish Stud Farm with El Dinero at Head of It. New York. December 7. Henry Wnterson, owner of the Mirasol Stable, lias decided to establish a breeding farm at Wawarsine. The farm he has obtained formerly was devoted to the breeding and development of show horses, but it .now will be devoted strictly to the producement of thoroughbreds. It is probable tliat Mr. Wntersons attention was turned to the production of thoroughbreds through coming into the possession of n horse which lie believed would make an exceptionally good sire. This was the chestnut colt El Dinero.3, by Uncle llerodia, by Adam. Upon the deatli of the late Herman B. Duryea, Mrs. Duryea, who decided to continue his Haras du Gnzon establishment in Normany, France, shipped a valuable cargo of thoroughbreds to New York, tlie star of which was the splendid-looking three-year-old colt Crimper. This was the colt with which Mr. Duryea had expected to repeat his success achieved when his good colt Durbar II. won the Epsom Derby. Mr. Duryeas death voided the colts entries and he. along with other valuable horses, was shipped to this country and advertised for sale at Belmont Park, May 27, 1910. Subsequently the yearlings in the band were withdrawn for another sale to be held in August at Saratoga, but Frazzle, Crimper and El Dinero and a good band of two-year-olds, were sold at Belmont Park in accord with the original announcement. Crimper was sold to Ral Parr for 6,500 and the average for the sixteen sold was 4,131 each. Mr. Waterson bought El Dinero with the view of racing him. although he knew that the colt was far from being in racing condition at the time. Tills colt had shown a marvelous turn of sliced in his work in France, but as there was nothing for him to do over there, he was not raced. When Mr. SVaterson got the colt ready to race on this side of the Atlantic, lie was simply amazed by the speed lie showed and entered him extensively to race in the best company for the following year, but before the end of the season of 1910, the oolt, while funning over a muddy track, came in contact with another horse, whose fore -foot cut one of the colts back sinews of his oft fore-leg so badly that he was ruined for racing purposes. HAS A FEW GOOD MARES. This decided Mr. Waterson as to the future disposition of El Dinero and as he had a few good mares and fillies suitable for breeding purposes, he determined to have a small breeding farm of his own. Of the value of El Dinero breeding there is no room for doubt. Concerning the breeding of Uncle, his sire, nothing need be said, while on the side of his dam. Herod In, it is nlwut equally rich. Herodia was by Adam, he by Flying Fox, lie by Onne and lie by Ormonde, the unbeaten son of the great Bend Or. Herodias dam was Wild Thyme, by Ben Brush, her second dam Rose, by Falsetto, her third dam Lilly Duke, by Lexington and her fourtli dam, that wonderful producer, Lilia, by Yorkshire. In addition to being a horse of extreme speed and rich breeding. El Dinero is a colt of splendid individuality, having great size and substance along with admirable conformation, which shows much of the Uncle type. The mares which will be sent up to the farm to El Dinero are Lady Maud. Blue Fox, Buddie. Sweeter than Sugar and Marigold. Down in New Orleans Mr. Waterson is represented by that wonderfully stout and game little brown horse Runes, 5, by Voorhees Chiffie. This sturdy little fellow is well under fifteen hands high, but he can hold his own in all sorts of company, and do his full share of race winning. He is a stout, game little fellow and always appears ready to race even under heavy imposts. Many are of the opinion that trainer Joseph Edwards, could with perfect safety and propriety, nice him as a galloway and pick up a lot of "easy money" at the hunt meetings. Indeed, it appears that there are but few if any horses in the country which could race within the gallowav limitations and hold their own with the wonderful little son of Voorhees Chiffie. FOUR YEARLINGS AT GRAVE SEND. Mr. Waterson lias four yearlings at Gravesend, and they constitute a decidedly fine-looking quartette. Two of them he bought out of the Clarence Maekay sale at Saratoga last August, and in view of their breeding and individuality they cannot be regarded as other than promising, although, like everything else offered at that sale, they were bought for moderate prices. The French-bred Court Jester, by Fitz Herbert Courtisane, a fine-looking bay colt, cost Mr. Waterson only 00, which was no sort of price for such a colt. Everybody knows what a great race horse Fitz Herbert was, and in view of the fact that lie came of strictly high-class running strain throiigh both sire and dam, the logical presumption is that he should be a successful sire, but as yet he is young as a sire and has not had time to distinguish himself. Doubtless this was the reason that lis progeny did not sell as well as anticipated at the Saratoga .sale. Taking this colt as an example, his breeding on the side of his dam was particularly rich. Courtisane was by the great race horse and sire Meddler, dam, that wonderful little sprinter Correction, sister to Domino by Himyar Mannie Gray and the dam of Yankee, by Hanover. That such a colt should sell for only 600 appears bad enough, but Mr. Water-sons next purchase at the same sale was cheaper yet. He bought the really fine-looking bay colt. Misanthrope, by Fitz Herbert Manzanita, by Meddler, for 00 and Manzanita is a daughter of that wonderful race mare and campaigner, Flocarline, by St. Florian, one of the best sons of St. Blaise. Besides these two Fitz Herbert yearlings, trainer Edwards has in his charge a fine bay filly by Sain and a good-looking chestnut colt by Celt.
