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RANCOCAS STALLIONS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE - a Zev, Grey Lag and Mad Hatter Head List for Stud Duty Next Year Above Trio, Together With Lucullite, Purchase, Kai-Sang, Sunference and Bud Lerner Available for Other Breeders Disastrous Fire of Last Year Depleting Farm of Highly-Prized Matrons Reason for Changed Policy of the Noted Establishment NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 23. Harry F. Sinclair, owner of the Rancocas Stable, and member of the New York State Racing Commission, will place his young thoroughbred, stallions in putlic service for the season of 1923. Mr. Sinclair has an -extensive breeding establishment near Jobstown,. New Jersey, and this policy is of vast interest to the breeders. It only became possible by reason of the fact that with only sixty-five brood mares at the Rancocas Farm, and as many as eight stallions, the stock horses were out of all proportion with the matrons. It was the disastrous fire of last year that depleted the farm of some of its most highly prized, matrons, and that accounts for the fact that the band is reduced to sixty-five. The sires that become available to other breeders by this determination on the part of Mr. Sinclair are Zev, Mad Hatter, .Grey Lag, Lucullite, Purchase, Kai-Sang, Sunference and Bud Lerner. Each cf these has a brilliant racing record, and each is bred along producing lines. Zev, the greatest money winner in American turf history, is a son of :The Finn and Miss Kearney; Mad Hatter is one of the greatest of- American campaigners at distances from the Toboggan Handicap to the two miles and a quarter, and is a son of Fair Play and Madcap; Grey Lag is a son of Star Shoot and Miss Minnie; and for years stood at the top of the handicap class; Lucullite is a son of Trap Rock and Lucky Lass, and raced brilliantly for both Augujgt Belmont, his breeder, and S. C. Hildreth;; Purchase is. a son of Ormondale and Cherryola, and one of . the fastest horses ever seen on the-American turf; Kai-Sang is a son of The Finn and-Kaluna and was one of the greatest juveniles of 1922, the Morvich year.;" Sunference is a son of Sun Briar and Conference, and Bud Lerner is by The Finn and from Dreamsome, by Superman. ZEV These are the stallions that become available, and it is certain that the limited book of each will be rapidly filled. It has been the usual custom of Mr. Sinclair to buy rather than sell, and he has spared no expense in building up his stable and his breeding establishment. It was a serious blow when the fire destroyed so many of the choicely bred mares, but much of the produce was saved and with the sixty-five that are left there are more than ample to recruit the racing stable. And the Rancocas Stable will be both large and powerful for the 1925 season. This big racing establishment headed the list of winning owners in 1921, 22 and 23, but was just beaten out this year by Harry Payne Whitney, only being displaced from the top of the list when Candy Kid won the Breeders Futurity for Mr. Whitney at Lexington last Saturday. Hildreth will make a brave bid for the top of the list in 1925 and he will come to the races with a string selected from twenty of those that were campaigning this year and forty yearlings that will race as two-year-olds in 1925. During the year there were eleven of the Rancocas horses sold. These were Rigel, Hour-more, Tester, Rival, Ranock, Hayward, Bruns, King Jimmy, Cardiff, Titan and Watts.
