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PIMLICO BREEDERS REMOUNT PURSE Attracting Attention of Kentucky Owners and Breeders as Well as Eastern Turfmen TurfmenBaltimore Baltimore Md October 21 The response of George J Long proprietor of the Uashford Manor Stud in Kentucky to the Maryland Joekey Clubs request for an entry for the coming inaugural run ¬ ning of the Pimlico Breeders Remount Purse Avas decidedly more than they expected Writing to William P Riggs the Maryland Jockey Clubs secretary on behalf of Mr Long W S Hopkins the manager of Bashford Manor said that Mr Long and the breeders of Kentucky generally were in hearty sympathy with the efforts of the race tracks to aid the remouht service of the military establishment in their work for better army horses but that they regretted that they had no stallion of the proper age for the Remount Purse But they added that they had at Bashford Manor a stallion of high quality a Kentucky Derby winner in fact which they were ready to turn over to the govern ¬ ment for the work of getting military horses and that they were ready to present the stallion to the government on the occasion of the first running of the Breeders Remount Purse PurseThe The stallion Mr Lons will present to he govern ¬ ment as a result of the effort of the Maryland Jockey Club to aid in remount improvement work is Sir Huon And Sir Huon as regards thorough ¬ bred antecedents quality as i nice horse l one and muscle yields to no thoroughbred stallion that has been secured by the government for the work of getting cavalry artillery and transport horses in the last dozen years A sou of Falsetto Ig ¬ nite she a daughter of Woodlands Luminous by Alarm Sir Huon carries the stoutest blood in the American Stud Book The value of the Falsetto blood is appreciated the world over too Many years ago the Kovernmentof AustriaHungary sent to this couafry anil got Fordham one of Falsettos sons fortho remount service am paid 30000 for him Sir Ilnon was foaled iii 1903 is now fifteen years oldbut has easily twelve years of usefulness ahead He is of a singularly longlived family Falsetto was twentyeight years old when Sir Huon was foaled and past thirty when he died and he was vigorous up to his last year yearSIE SIE HUON KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER Sir Huon won the Kentucky Derby of 1906 from Lady Xavarre and James Reddlck and then came east to beat highclass opposition in the Common ¬ wealth Handicap at Shecpshead Bay Glorificr Cederstrome Ranis Horn and one or two other good horses finished behind him He broke down in the running of the Saratoga Cup in which he was beaten by Go Between and he has been at service at Bashford Manor these seven or eight years He has proven a sure foal getter and he breeds to type A 16hand horse of uniform de ¬ velopment Sir Huon sires big powerful horses He will be especially serviceable to the government because he is a stallion of unusual vitality vitalityOther Other Kentnckians who are taking the keenest interest in the success of this Remount Purse which the Maryland Jockey Club has established at the particular request of officers of the United Slates Remount Department are Thomas Clay McDowell Edward R Bradley Johnson X Camden Charles Berrynian and Arthur It Hancock Some of thorn have no horses of the proper sort to start stallions three years old and over but are hustling about to get horses of the right sort Eastern horsemen who have signified their intention of helping to fill the race are A K Macomber Edward Beale McLean Samuel Ross of Washington Richard F fsirniaii Commander J K L Ross S Dymenr Wilfrid Aian John Lumsden Major August Rol mont Samuel D Riddle Joseph E Widener George D Widener William Woodward W R Coe An ¬ drew Miller and Richard T Wilson WilsonThe The first actual entry received was A A Doctors Prunes a threeyearold sou of Voorhees Pres teno Prunes is a black colt about 15 hands 3 inches and an admirable type Mr Riggs expects about fifteen starters in the Remount Purse en ¬ tries for which will close on Xovember 2 The purse will be 2500 the distance one mile All nomi ¬ nators agree when they enter that the government may purchase any or all starters at 1000 a head within fortyeight hours after the time of the running of the race
