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. . - ; : J " : t AMBASSADOR COMES TO AMERICA Bought in England by A. B. Hancock and the Maryland Belair Stud. BY EXILE. LEXINGTON, Ky., September 20. One of the most important and far reaching transactions in the thoroughbred world is the purchase by A. It. Hancock and the William Woodards ISelair Stud of Collington, Mil., of the eight-year-old English stallion Ambassador and the transfer of a half interest by Mr. Hancock to the P.elair Stud of the stallions Wrack, Rock View and Jim Gaffney. Ambassador is already well and favorably known to thoroughbred horsemen on this side of the Atlantic as the sire of the Spinaway winner Constancy, which nlfu finished third to Man o War in the rir.ning of the Hopeful Stakes, and has since won good races at Havre de Jrace and liclmont Park, and must be considered about the best two-year-old filly of this year. Ambassador won as a two-year-ojd a mai.lcn plate at Newmarket, the July Stakes over tlia same course, beating Honeywood. and ran third, agar: finishing in front of Honeywood, fx the Manchester Autumn .Breeders Foal Plate or ,000. As a three-year-old Ambassador won the Chippenham Plate, one and one-half miles, anil was also Mrst for the ,000 one and one-quarter miles .Lingfhdd Park Autumn Stakes. Honeywood beat him u l.iad for the Cambridgeshire, the pair finishing ahead of Diailumenos, Maiden Krleigli and the St. Leger winner Black Jester. Brown Prince, brother to Ambassador, won outright the Cambridgeshire and other good races. They are sons of Dark Uonald Excel-lenza. by Haut Brion, a good winning son of St. Simon, which was sent to Australia, there to score success as a sire. Dark Bou.ild won the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot, beating Avith all ease the American champion Sir Martin, and afterward Avon the one and one-half miles Princess of Wales Stakes, 0,000, at Newmarket, beating Primer, the St. Leger winner; Your Majesty anil a good field, among which was White Eagle. Gulbeyaz, the granddam of Ambassador, is by the Derby winner Bend Or, dam Sultana, by Oxford. Sultana Is the dam of Eothen, sire of the Futurity winner Requital and that good race horse and sire Ethelbert. The family runs on down to Merope, granddam of Galopin, by Voltaire, and this the No. 3 family, the tap root of which is the dam of the Two True Blues. At present there is a Hampton boom in England. The dead Bayurdo during Ids aUffttf-hort stud career got those two good horses, both of them winners of the Derby, and tjiis years Oaks winner, Bayuda. Bayardo is by Dark Bonalds sire. Bay Ronald, son of Hampton. Wrack, Kock View and Jim Gaffney are well-1 bred horses, all three of them having already achieved success as sires. Wrack has begun operations with a flourish, having this, season no less than six winning juveniles, among them the Grab I!ag winner Blazes. Bock View in this, his first season, is the sire of the Tomboy winner Wedding Cake, and Jim Gaffney has a well-established repu- tation as the sire of Dodge, Franklin, Seiinings Park. War Pennant and other winners. Ambassador was bred by Donald Fraser and was owned at the time of his purchase by A. E. Barton. His pedigree follows: 2 Bav f Hampton.... f Lord Clifden .. Sf Konald. L Black frHn"8 r2 Duchess... tekCarrlo 2- I f Thurio fTibtpe orCmne - : LBarkie...- Verona mt- O llnsignia..... f"lair A1101 g S J l Decoration Q 1 f St. Simon.... 1I,i" tt.. I J i s e -Haut St. Angela Brion..! Bonnie f JSro. to Stmt ford 2 a " Ul Chieftains Daur . If lIUlbeya4I!0r L MS " I Sultana fOxfonl LBcsika
