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THE PORTER WILL RETIRE Crack Son of Sweep to Be Removed from Racing for Stud Service. It has been given out that the .gallant and high-class The Porter i3 done with racing and is to enter stud service next year. Everyone conversant with racing knows The Porter is in the front .rank of our best handicap horses. Each year sluce. The Porter nppeared in racing there have been other horses in action which were slightly Jils superiors, but when right he always was able to keep them terribly bu in proving it. Had tliey been at even weights in the Annapolis Handicap last Saturday it Is more than probable Exterminator would have beaten him, but when the latter noble stayer was asked to give him fifteen pounds he was set an impossible task, as The Porter easily demonstrated. The Porter was a good race horse from hie two-year-old day?, so much so when a four-year-old that he was not far from being the equal of any in racing. With li!5 pounds on his" back to 12S on the then mighty Cudgel, he- gave the latter n sound trouncing nt a mile in 1:37 at Laurel, and among others he took the measure of that year were such grand warriors of the track as Exterminator, Billy Kelly. Sun Briar, On Watch, Sir Barton, Luculllte, Tippity Witchet and Royce Rools, to say nothing of others of lesser note. Outside of possessing him and the fleet Colin filly Dream of Allah, Mr. McLean has no other racers of quality worthy of an important stable, and his determination to retire The Porter is easily understandable. He wishes to breed his own racers and has some richly bred brood mares. Witn these Lough Foyle has proved a failure. Besides being a groat race horse The Porter is a member of -Jic virile and highly successful house of Ben Brush,; and his value in the stud seems assured. Whether lie will sire any as good as himself is a problem, but in a few years hence he wilj almost certainly be giving Mr. McLean youngsters in -which he can justly take pride, f The .Porters record arid unexpended -pciligroe, are.: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1917 2 0 3 1 1 1 $ 2,5-11 191S 3 13 0 5 1 1 10,055 1919 4 15 7 2 2 4 19,226 1920 5 13 6 2 3 2 28.044 1921 6 7 4 0 1-V -2 -13,400 Totals 5 54 20 10 8 10 3,860 . Bonnie Scotland , f fllen f Bramble..., I Ivy Leaf J?.l rnHh..tB0aeTni...,.fgS5S 1 5 Link JD0lnin MannieGray a I Domino Belle Rose. . gggK. "S I f, . fHerniit i3 f St. 7on- J st- Blaise... I Tuseo 3,2 a ards.... "Kingfisher . L Belladonna.. -, I Bcllonu r Lowland f Lowlaiider fi- l Perito -l Cllief I Bathilde "I Ioncaster V- Merry xtv.-,.,. n Dance I Highland Fling
