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SANFORDS ENGLISH PRIZES Two Beautifully Bred Yearlings on the Transport Manhattan. BY E. E. COUSSELL LONDON, England, November 3. The Atlantic Transport steamer Manhattan, leaving London for New York today, carries two highly-bred yearlings which have been bought in England by Mr. John Sanford. Indeed, these arc the only animals on the steamer. A New York huntsman has purchased some hunthcrs, but there was not sufficient time before the sailing date to obtain the papers. These animals will go over later. One of Mr. Sanfords yearlings is a chestnut filly "by Sunder Snow Marteii, for" which he paid 0,000. Snow Marten won the Oaks at Newmarket in the war time. She is, on the dams side, related to Spion Kop, Orpheus and Comrade, all first-class horses in 1020. She was by Martagou Siberia, a winner of 8,400, by St. Simon from Sirenia," winner of the Jubilee Stakes and sister to Himmerkop, dam of Spion Kop. There is another daughter of Snow Marten in Kentucky. She is Mr. Arthur Hancocks mare Betty Snow, which was sired by Sir. Martin. When Snow Marten was in training she was bred to Sir Martin and with Mary ,Suow unborn she ran second to f-in-Law in a field of thirty-one for the 1015 Ccsarewitch at two and a quarter miles. The other youngster- is a bay colt by the extremely successful sire Charles OMalley Captive Princess, which was about the best of her year in Ireland, where she won the Irish Oaks and St. Legor. She is. by Captivation, by Cyllene Princess Eager, by Eager. . These two yearlings lack nothing on the score of individual excellence and their blood lines are of the highest class. They will go to Mr. Sanfords farm at Amsterdam, ,N. Y., to await with the: other youngsters recently shipped the retnrn of Hollie Hughes, who will winter Mr. Sanfords animals in Tennessee. Mr. Sanford has been spending a lot of time in the Newmnrket district, for his son is an undergraduate at Cambridge, where it is quite likely he will become master of the famous Cambridge University Drag Hunt. Mr. Sanford himself went to the docks to see these animals safely shipped on the Manhattan.
