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STALLION OVERSIGHT DEAD A K Macombers Recent Importation De ¬ stroyed at Saratoga Famous Race Horse Word comes from New York that A K Macom ¬ bers recent importation the famous French stallion Oversight is dead at Saratoga Dr McQully was called there a week ago to administer to the Frenchman and it seemed at the time that his remedies were meeting with success when paralysis set in and the horse had to be destroyed destroyedThe The loss of Oversight is not only a heavy per ¬ sonal loss to Mr Macomber but a staggering blow to American breeding interests In bringing Over ¬ sight to this country Mr Macomber was hailed as the savior of the priceless Hanover line Unfor ¬ tunate indeed is it that the noted Frenchman was not spared us longer to perpetuate the name and fame of his grandsire grandsireOversight Oversight was more than a good race horse in France winning three races as a twoyearold including Prix de la Salamandria beating Verdun The following year Oversight won five out of his eight starts among his wins Prix Lagrange fin ¬ ishing ahead of Verdun Prix Darn Prix la Ro chette 0000 and Prix Lupin 8000 from a good field He also ran third to Verdun for the French Two Thousand As a fouryearold Over ¬ sight won four of the eight races in which he took part and 49330 his winning essays including Prix du President de la Republique of a distance approximately one and a half miles from the Oaks winner Marsa Ossian Aveu and the French Derby winner Sea Sick From this it may readily be seen that Oversight could win in the best company over a long distance of ground and a glance at his pedi ¬ gree is evidence that he is also an unusually well bred horse horseHalma Halma Oversights sire combines in his pedigree the blood of four of the best horses Glencoe Bon ¬ nie Scotland Leamington and Australian ever im ¬ ported to this country countryOversights Oversights dam First Sight is one of the top heavy English Eclipse mares a daughter of Isin ¬ glass which also sired Lady Lightfoot dam of Prince Palatine and is another wellbred nonwin ¬ ning marc which on account of her breeding is of great value as a brood mare Nandine dam of First Sight to St Simon bred St Bris winner of the Cesarcwitch as a threeyearold and the Alexandra Plate the following year St Bris was sent from England to France there to score no small measure of success as a sire
