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SOME GOOD-LOOKING PLATE MATERIAL George W.; Beardmore Has Two in Charge -of Trainer Doane That Give Great Promise. . .-.BY FRANCIS. NELSON. TORONTO, p.it., September . AVhen Charles Miller a few years ago bought the band of Kings Plate eligibles from Mrs. L. A. Livingstons Pontine Farm at Cobourg, he found among them Tartarean and Fair Montague, which, when they were three-year-olds, ran first and second for him in the Plate, and thereby made good his bantering warning to Henry Giddings that, he would beat tBe Giddings best the first time lie c-er ran anything. George AV. Beardmore, the good sportsman, who is master of the hunts of the Toronto Hunt, director of the Ontario Jockey Club and owner of the winner Qf this years. Kings Plate, received last Saturday from Cobourg a string of five head, from which he hopes to develop one to repeat the success of Ladder of Light. Trainer Joe Doane. lias taken them in charge, and they look like promising material, though they are yet absolutely green and still to be broken. Ten yearlings are still to come to Woodbine for Mrs. Livingston to be broken by trainer Doane, and it is possible the entire band .may be bought by Mr. Beardmore. Thty include some closely related to good" performers. . t Stanhope II., the premier stallion at Pontine Farm, and sire of miiny useful horses, was destroyed last week, twenty-two years old. The sou Florlzel II. did not race, but was a fine specimen of the highly-bred English horse. Kingship is the only sire at the farni.. and of the sixteen mares five have foals-by the son of Ildriin.. John AValkor has purchased from the Thorncliffc Stable the three-year-old Bugle. March. This son Mrs. Frank Foster is at AVoodbmc Park, and it Mr. AValkers intention to .school him through the field: Another prospect for cross-country racing being schooled -at. the Ontario Jockey Club course is Charles Crews Pepper Sauce, in charge of ex-steeplechase jockey Eddie Kelly. Pepper Sauce taking .to jumping in promising style. r 3 s c a ; s 0 a a n s n a r y c 1 of ,f 11 0 :s 0 of is 18 10 s "e is ls
