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SWEEPERS BEST SCION TO DATE RACING OF MRS. W. M. JEFFORDS* COSTLY COLT, GOLDEN BR00Mt GOOD ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY HIGH HOPES FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS A THREE-YEAR-OLD Like her Iiu-li.tiid. Mrs. W. If. Jeffords is an anient admirer of racing and campaigns a small stable on her own account. At the Saratoga yearling -ale- af Plls she pliukily gave the top price of the year — ■ 5,000 far the Sweeper — Zuna colt, which raced last year tinder the name of Jolden Hrinini and cast no discredit on his high breeding. His sire. Sweepi r. is one of the splendid creatures Broomstick has sent into racing. He was raced in Kngland by H. B. Duryea with great .success, winning the Fifty - Ninth Triennial Stakes at Ascot and the Bahniond Stakes at Ooodwood when a two-year-old. The next year he started out by winning the Two Thousand Guinea* of 1012, with Jaeger second and Hal! Cram third, but failed in the Kpsom Derby, lor which he was a 2 to 1 favorite. That was the Derby in which Mr. Belmonts Tracery made his d; but in racing by running third to Tagalie and Jaeger. Golden Brooat started three times last year. He ran unplaced in a purse race at Saratoga. August 4. but on Augu-t 0 won the Saratoga Special like a real race horse, ran its three-quarters in 1:12%, won by three lengths and defeated Wihlair. King Thrush. P.onnie Mary. Cinderella and Panoply. His third race was for the Sanford Me rial, at three-quarters, which Ipset won in 1:11%, carrying 113 pounds. Man a War. 130 pounds, was second, and Golden P.room. ISO pound-, third. The tatter art the pace and ran the fust half in 40.-. . He was slightly injured in the race and was at on ■ retired for the year. Lxpcctation is that he will prove a star three-year-old in the racing of this year. On breeding and performance be has a right to be. The other horses in the stable did no great things in racing, but every one of them won money, and the stable record was: Horse Col. and Sex. A. Pedigree. 1st. 2d. 3d. Won. Golden Broom eh. c. 2 By Sweeper-Zuna. by Hamburg 1 0 1 $ 0,800 Claquer h, c 4 By Plaudit— Olga Nethersole. by Hindoo 2 1 0 1.7SO Flying Flower eh. f. 2 By The Manager — Ancient, by Cesarion 1 1 4 1,280 Hoodwink eh. C. 2 By Disguise Tamanamass. by Grey Leg t II 1 1.020 Dr Johnson . b. g. 4 By Sir John Johnson- Quack, by Ogden 2 1 1 s93 The Dean b. m. 5 By Bryn Mawr Single Knot, by Star Shoot 0 2 1 400 First Consul b. c. 2 By Zeus — Sans Gene, by Bock Sand 0 1 0 «" 0 Totals 7 ~ 6 5,203
