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, TRACERYS HALF BROTHER Top Hat, Owned by John McE. Bowman, Will Be Bred to Mares at New York Farm. X10W YORK. N*. Y.. April 14.— Top Hat, half brother to the noted race hcrse and sire Tracery and the stake winner Trap Roik, has been brought back to the United States by John McE. Bowman and he will be located for the season of 1923 at Stone-hedge Farm, rear Port Chester, N. Y. Mr. Bowman has a number of good marea at Stonehedse and these and other thoroughbred dams in the vicinity will be brtd to Top Hat. The horse will next fall go to Hal Price Headleys Beaumont Stud in Kentucky. Top Hat was bred by Major August Belmont, and Mr. Bowman lent the stallion to the Cuban republic for a term of years in order to help out the work of general purpose horse improvement which was under way with deneral Agramonte at its head. American breeders are now to have a chance to avail themselves ot the blood which has produced some of the greatest horses in the world. HaStinns, which sired Pair riay. sire of Man o War and other great performers, is also the sire of Top Hat. while Topiary, by Orme. for which Major Belmont paid 0,000, Is his dam. The quality of Topiary as a brood mare is shown by three such sons as Tracery, which was sold for 64,000, a record price for a thoroughbred in this or any other country; Trap Rock and Top Hat in successive years. Sam Hildreth, who trained Top Hat. says he could beat any horse in the Belmont stable with 1SB pounds as an impost. That Major Belmont . believes in the blood which Top Hat represents is shown by his expressed intention to send some of his good mares to him next year. Top Hat is a winner both on the flat and through the field.
