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i a 1 J j ; . ; ; t . - : , . MACOMBER STUD FOR SALE j Three Stallions and Forty-one Brood Mares in California to Be Disposed Of. BY F. L; McKENNEY. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. November 15. Witli the coming here for a short stay of A. K. Macomber it became known that the well-known breeder plans "clean-up" of all his thoroughbred stock, in California with the exception .of .eighteen yearlings in . training at San Jose. Thr.ee stallions and forty-one brood mares pre. to .be. sold. At least one of the stallions, the Suustar horse Hand Grenade, is likely to bring quite a substantial sum, as he was a good performer on the race course and is bred along lines that promise well for the stud. Hand Grenade was the major stallion in the breeding last spring at Elmwodd Stock Farm, where he has been quartered since being retirqd from the turf. Some of the1 mares to he sold are in foal to him. Hand Grenade, Liberty Loan and War Fame are the remaining members of a hand of young stallions Mr. Macomber sent to Elmwood about two years ago. The Suustar horse paicihes was sold to Frank J. Kelley of Chicago; the Sunstar horses Eliminator and War Cry were disposed of to Califoriiians, and Hesperus, also a son of Suustar, died last year. Eliminator is a brother to the Kentucky Oaks winner Sunbonnet, ami recently changed hands in New York. War Cry was raCed toward the end of the present year over New York tracks. Hand Grenade is a beautifully formed hrown, five years old, from, the Greenhtwn mare All Green. When trained by Walter Jennings, Hand Grenade "trimmed" good ones on the Metropolitan courses. Liberty Loan, a brown six-year-old," by Dick Fin-nell Martha Palmer, by Seniproilius, is well remembered by eastern racegoers. War Fame, the third stallion to be put on the market,- is a four-year-jpld, by Prince Palatine, the stallion recently brought to the United Stiites by E. F. Simms. War Fanue is one of the tallest thoroughbreds ever seen hereabouts, standing about seventeen hands. He is a ,son of the Bill of Portland mare- Verne.: ..Thirty" of the mares up focsal.were purchased nfmrharles Ti. Jtootsf" Some. At .JheiVmatt-bnsrar. daughters of Borgia and other sons of the celebrated Macgregor horse Brutus. The other, eleven were picked up by Mr. Maeomber at yaripijs times. They were not shipped to France last year with twenty other mares,, as their produce are ineligible to the French Stud Book, because they .trace back, to old American "stock. One of the mar.es. is a half-sister to the good sprinter Motor Cop, and .others are by Sunstar, from Watercress mares. .
