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A. K. MAC0MBER AND THE PANTHER It seems that the reserve price of .00,000 on The Panther, at which lie was not stdtl last spring, had an American connection. The colts owner, Sir Alexander lllack. is saitl to have received a cablegram from A. K. Macomber, the California turfman, asking: "Will you take forty thousand for the Panther?" Figuring as Englishmen do, on guineas as standard units in transactions about race horses, Sir Alec . Itlack considered that lie had received a iMina fide offer of forty thousand guineas for his colt. Hence the reserve. Eventually he learned that the cablegram meant dollars, not guineas. After the sale farce and the winning of the Two Thousand Guineas, Tlie Panther turned out to be u rogue and failed repeatedly.- He was retired and sild a few days ago to go to the Argentine as a sire for 00,000. He was probably bought by Senor E. Martinez tie Hoz. of the Haras-Chapa-duralah, where Craganour stands, to replace the dead ami gone Old Man, sire of liotafogo.
