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GREAT BOTAFOGO IS HALF YANKEE His Dam Korea Figured in Western Racing Some Years Ago 1 It seems that the actnalprlceTpaid atrrBuenos Aires for the great race horse Botafogo to his former owner Diego Alvear by M A Martinez de Hoz was 200000 and the privilege of breeding ten mares to the horse horseOnly Only one other horse In the world has been sold for 200000 This was Prince Palatine winner of the St Leger and other great races in England eight years ago J B Joel paid 209000 for the son of Persimmon but the privilege of breeding ten mares to Botafogo would more than overbalance the excess of 9000 in money paid for Prince Pala ¬ tine if stud fees in the Argentine Republic are anything like they arc in England where Mr Joels horse commanded 2000 before lie ever got a foal foalBotafogo Botafogo is a fouryearold colt by the wonderful native South American horse Old Man that out ¬ ranked the English Derby winner Diamond Jubilee among winning sires there a year or two ago He was by Orbit son of Bend Or and was out of the French mare Moissonneuse by Dollar the horse whoso lifesize istatue in bronze stands at the entrance to the Empire City track in Yonkers N Y Korea the dam of Botafogo was sent to South America from Kentucky in 1910 and was sold there with a foal by Ben Strome for about 1200 She was foaled in England hut raced mostly at St Louis for T P Hayes in 1904 as a twoyearold winning four races and being placed three times in thirteen races That was Koreas only racing season in this country She was retired early and sent for sale to South America a few years later when the racing slump came H P Headley of the Beau ¬ mont Stud imported Korea and after her racing until sent to South America she was one of the band of brood mares at the Dixiana Stud of Mrs T J Carson of Lexington Ky KyTim Tim new owner of Botafogo is perhaps the best known breeder of fine horses and cattle in South America He enjoys the distinction of having twice won the championship of the London Hackney Show with Hopwood Viceroy a stallion he had shipped from Buenos Aires to England for the ex ¬ hibition and was afterward about to ship to New York for the National Horse Show of America when the breaking out of war caused the abandon ¬ ment of the annual exhibition at Madison Square Garden When Craganour was disqualified after finishing first in the Epsom Derby of 1913 Mr de Hoz paid lr0000 for the horse to Lead his stud at the Haras Chanadmalal in South America AmericaSouth South Americans have long been setting tile pace in making the prices of great race horses More than thirty years ago they established a record by paying 80870 to the Duke of Westminster for Ormonde and in 1893 they raised the limit again bv asking and getting 150000 for the unbeaten son of Bend Or W OB Macdonougli of California be ¬ ing the buyer Since then they have paid British breeders such fabulous urices as 150000 for Craga ¬ nour 151200 for Diamond Jubilee and 125000 for Cyllene and now they have capped the climax by breeding one that brought more money than any of the importations importationsIt It will surprise many turfmen to learn that of the nine horses ever sold for 150000 or more Argentine breeders have purchased five and sold two Botafogo is the first horse bred elsewhere than in the Britisli Isles that has brought such a price The largest sum ever received by an Ameri ¬ can was 125000 paid by a syndicate for the im ¬ ported English stallion Rock Sand when Major August Belmont sold him to go to France in 1912 Flying Fox ranks as the highestpriced horse ever sold at auction 189000 having been realized for him in the famous Kingsclere sale in England in March 1900
