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NOTED STALLION SAIN DEAD Gained Enduring Fame as Sire of Jack Atkin, Nealon, Deutschland and Many Others. Sain is dead at. the Basliford Manor Farm of his owner, George J. Long. Sain was a St. Simon horse, by St. Serf The Task, by Barcaldine. The late Captain Merry Hidalgo pronounced him the best bred horse ever brought to America. In 1894 the late Marcus Daly sent over to England and purchased that splendid collection of thoroughbred stallions and mares -which made his farm in the Bitter Root Valley, Montana, one of the most noted in the United States. Among the mares was a beautiful one called The Task, by Barcaldine. She had won two good races one of them the Devonshire Nursery Handicap for two-year-olds, and was bred to that grandly bred and, at that time, the most fashionable stallion in the United Kingdom, St. Serf. He was by St. Simon Feronia, by Thormanby Woodbine, by Stockwell Honeysuckle, by Touchstone Beeswing, by Dr. Syntax, etc. Every sire and every dam was a noted stake winner and producer of his era. Sain was imported in utero and foaled in this country the same year. It follows that he was twenty-six years old when he died. Through the agency of William Layng of San Francisco, Barney Schreiber bought him there when he was a three-year-old and placed him at the head of his Woodlands Stud, near St.. Louis, Mo. There he gained enduring fame as a sire in sending into racing sucli grand specimens of the thoroughbred as Jack Atkin, Nealori, Otis, Tom McGrath, Tony Faust, Deutschland, Tony Bonero, Centre Shot, Corrigau, Schwalbe and a host of others which raced with distinction on every track of the United States and Canada and was at one time about the most popular sire in the United States. Of late years he has not been much heard of, but so recently as last Friday his son Tharon won a race for Mr. Long at Kenilworth Pnrk and his daughter Cozette did the same thing at Latonia September 29. So it U not altogether without I reward that Mr. Long lias been giving the old horse a chance in his last years.
