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SAN FORD TO RAGE PARAGON English Handicap Hcrse, Bought for 5,000, to Bo Trained at Saratoga. Paragon, five-year-old bay horse, by Radium Quintessence, by St. Frusquin, which was bought for John Sanford at a price of 5C5.000 at the Newmarket July sales, will be put into active training by Hollie Hughes on hi3 arrival in this country and may be sent to the post during the Saratoga meeting under the Sanford Stud Farm colors. Of course the primary purpose of the purchase was to add another stallion cf good blocd lines to the fine stock now at Hurri-cana Farm, Amsterdam. N. Y., but it has been decided to give the English horse a chance to add to his laurels before he is ictired. He has been in active training all season on the other side and should round into condition rapidly after his iong sea voyage. There has been considerable romance in the career of Paragon. He is a medium-sized good-looking horse with the exception that his off hock is disfigured, due to an accident when a foal. His dam died when the colt was ten days old. A foster mother was secured. In the early autumn the mare and foal were in a paddock alongside a road at Mereworth, in Kent, where Lord Falmouth has his home and stud farm. HORSES FRIGHTENED T5Y SOLDIERS. The animals were frightened by a boisterous party of soldiers in motor lorries, with the result that the foal galloped through or over a big hedge and fell into a ditch on the other side, thus permanently disfiguring his hock. The result was, when he came up for sale at Newmarket in December, 1919 when a yearling at which sale all the horses, the property of the late Lord Falmouth, were sold many people were skeptical about Willie Waughs story of the in- j jured hock and refrained from bidding. Mr. Gilpin, however, bought the colt for Sir E. Paget for the comparatively small sum of ?3,6O0. Paragon earned for his former owner over G,000. His racing record is as follows : Yea r. Starts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 1919 C 2 2 1 1 ,455 19110 7 2 1 1 3 10,.r63 1921 G 2 0 1 2 21.250 1922 1 1 .. .. .. 7,903 Total ..19 7 3 3 6 ?4G,175 Including two race3 in France. PARAGONS STAKE VICTORIES. Following are brief details of the chief races won by Paragon, which is brother to the Two Thousand Guineas winner Clarissi-mus : Two Years Old. Won International Two-Year-Old Plate, San-down Park, five-eighths mile ? 3,C75 Won Devonsiie Nursery Handicap, Derby, fire-eighths mile 2,310 Three Years Old. Won Southern Stakes, Lingficld, one mile.... 3,003 Third in Two Thousand Guineas 1,000 Second in Newmarket Stakes 500 Won Prix de Seine et Marnc, Paris, one and one-half miles 0,000 Four Years Old. Won Jubilee Handicap, Kcmpion Park, one and one-quarter nies, carried 11G pounds... 12.GC0 Won Duke of York Handicap, Kempton Park, one and one-quarter miles, carried 121 pounds . . 8,400 Fire Years Old.i Won City and Suburban Handicap. Epsom, one and one-quarter miles, carried 120 pounds 7,105 Total ?13,355
