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SUN BRIAR SUPERB TYPE OF HORSE Living Model of Old English Turf Champion Ring tones His Only Blemish SARATOGA SPRINGS N Y August 13 Sun Briars splendid performance in the Champlain Han ¬ dicap in which he carried 128 pounds and lowered the track record for one mile and an eighth to 150 was all the more meritorious from the fact that he was in the stud last spring eighteen mares having been bred to him before he was put in training There are few cases on record where a race horse has made a season in tlie stud and then run to his best form the same year yearIt It is gratifying to chronicle the fact that besides being one of the fastest horses in the country if not indeed the fastest with scale weight up Sun Briar Is a superb specimen of the thoroughbred race horse in conformation quality finish and type He is the color of old San Domingo mahogany stands about 153 hands high and looks as much like an equine gamecock as any horse ever did None of your lopeared listless gross looking gummy legged ones is Sun Briar but a living model for one of J F Herrings exaggerated portraits of the ex ¬ tremely bloodlike old English turf champions No one wonld ever mistake him for a gelding as one might at first glance mistake some of the thor ¬ oughbred fouryearold colts now on the turf With all his wonderful finish and quality Sun Briar is as masculine as they make them with crested neck and the bold commanding carriage one likes to see In a stallion stallionHis His head i of the Arab type with all the term implies as to fine muzzle brilliant eyes thin taper ¬ ing ears and alert intelligent expression of counte ¬ nance There is a good deal of Arab character too about his whole figure and particularly the hind quarters which are elegant in the extreme with long high cronp and tail set on as only Arab tails are set Under UIs richly colored silken coat you see the muscles distinctly no suggestion of flesh being apparent anywhere and yet Sun Briar has all the substance one could wish to see in a horse formed for extreme speed His legs are the dry hard lvory eaH sort which do not fill or get mussed up as those of many coarser horses do the kind of legs in short which usually go with a horse of extremely high quality qualityThe The only place any horseman has ever wanted to change Sun Briar is in his front coronets aiid pas ¬ terns There the great colt has a pair of pro ¬ nounced ringbones A ringbone is incurable and usually causes lameness but lie has never taken a lame step and Dr R W McCully who is veteri ¬ narian to Sun Briar and most of the other noted race horses says the blemishes may never give him any trouble Through Dr McCullys urgent advice they have been let alone so that no unsightly marks of the firing iron disfigure the colt Ringbones are a form of unsoundness of which breeders and all horsemen have a horror and if Sun Briar were any ordinary stallion he woulfl hardly be considered for stock purposes But his form his speed and his breeding are so unusual that his owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer and others will not hesitate to use him as a sire in spite of the unsightly enlargements enlargementsMr Mr Kilmer picked up the colt for 6000 at auction in Saratoga in 1916 He was one of the yearlings sent from France by Delbert Reiff and was sired by the English horse Snndridge sire of the Epsom Derby winner Sunstar and other noted stake horses Sun Briars dani Sweet Briar was by St Frusquin the son of St Simon that sired the Derby winner St Amant and many more hlgh class runners After her colt began to show his class Mr Kilmer cabled to France and bought Sweet Briar but the authorities would not then per ¬ mit him to take her out of the country Her back breeding is up to the standard of her top crosses and she traces in the direct female line to the Ascot Gold Cup winneBees Wing dam of the St Leger winner and fam6us sire Newminster and of Nunnykirk winner of the Two Thousand Guineas
