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SUN BRIAR MAKING GOOD Kilmer Stallion Sent Good Performers to Races Last Year. Eleven of Ills Fourteen Juvenile Representatives Were Winners Sun Flag Brought 25,000 When Sold to Cochran. NEW YORK, N. Y.. Jan. 2S. In considering the successful thoroughbred sires of the past few years the record made by Sun Briar challenges the attention of all discriminating students of bloodstock breeding. Taking the number of mares bred to this horse into consideration the premier stallion at the Sun Briar Court Stud of Willis Sharpe Kilmer at Binghamton, N. Y., has enjoyed a stud career comparable in. brilliancy with his record on the turf. In 1921 Sun Briar was credited with seven-ten foals. Of this number two died. viz. : Sun Count, brother to Sunsini, winner of over 2,000 last year, and Sun Lassie, from the good mare Palatine Lassie, by Prince Palatine. Fourteen two-year-olds were- trained and eleven were winners of twenty-three races last year, making his percentage of tu o-year-old winners 78.02. The smart filly, Sunayr, from Misty Law, by Ayrshire, leads the list with six races to her credit. Sunny Sal, the half-sister to the flying Sallys Alley, another good winner, had as much speed as any two-year-old that raced last year. She is the pick of some of the best judges for the three-year-old filly classics of 1024. SUN FLAG GOOD COLT. Another brilliant juvenile by Sun Briar that showed high form last year was Sun Flag, for which Gifford A. Cochran paid 5,000. Carroll Shilling, who has him in hand, is convinced that Sun Flag has as good a chance for the big three-year-old prizes as any colt in the "United States. His three victories in 1923 were achieved against tho stoutest competition. Sunspero and Sun Pal, both sold at the same time as Sun Flag, were good stake Continued on twelfth page. SUN BRIAR MAKING GOOD Continued from first page. winHers in 1923 also, the former in the Cochran colors and the latter for Lee Rosenberg, for whom he was selected by J. D. Odom. Tire quality of Sun Flag, Sun Pal and Sun-spera excited the attention of those who saw them race and their resemblance to their sire was commented on. This ability to transmit individuality is a certain index to the inherent greatness of a stallion. It is a guarantee that Sun Briar will pass to his progeny those qualities which made him the most talked-of two-year-old in the United States in 1917 and gained him the reputation of bing a "speed marvel" after his mile in 1:34 at Saratoga Springs in 1919 as a four-yeaj iold. SU2f QUEST IIADICArrED. :n Quest, by Sun Briar Royal Quest, sister to The Tetrarcli, would have been one cf the best three-year-old fillies out last year had she been in a stable where she was not compelled to act as a pacemaker for a supposedly better filly. Good judges thought she would have won the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga but for the way she was used up in making pace for her stable companion, Sallys Alley. Sunference is another Sun 1 Briar that emerged from eclipse late in 1923 to give promise of racing ability of the highest. In the hands of S. C. Hildreth he should be one of the best handicap horses of 1921. It is doubtful whether the United States has ever had a faster horse than Sun Briar, while none surpass him in breeding and conformation. By Sundridge, from the great producing mare Sweet Briar, by St. Frus-quin, he presents a flawless pedigree. As a two-year-old Sun Briar electrified the , racing world by a series of brilliant races at Saratoga Springs, baginning with the Albany r Handicap and including the Saratoga Special, . GTand Union Hotel and Hopeful Stakes. . The competition was unusually keen even for Saratoga that year and in the latter event : the Kilmer representative showed his superiority - over seventeen of the best two-year-olds in the country. He was the champion i of the meeting and retired after winning the : best offerings of the great season at the i Spa. He would easily have won the Futurity, , but, being foreign bred, had not been nominated. He was a good three-year-old and 1 one of the best four-year-olds of his year. . His record of 2:03 in 191$ for the historic : Travers is still the record and will probably always stand. At nine years of age the stud record of c Sun Briar is unusually brilliant. So manv " applications have been received both at Sun 1 Briar Court and Court Manor, tho new Virginia annex, that it is possible he may be 2 placed in the public stud another year.
