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I I j I j | ! 1 I j GREAT STALLION CYLLENE English Turf Authority Writes of Career of Noted Sire Which Died Eecently. The death occurred recently In the Argentine of that great stallion Cyllene, «ire of four Derby winners in Cicero, Lemberg, Mlnoru, and Tagalle. Bred by Sir C. D. Rose, and foaled on May 28, 1895, Cyllen*, a ohostnut horse by Bona Vista out of Arcadia by Isonomy from Distant Shore by Hermit, was not entered for any of the classic races, owing to his diminutive proportions when a yearling. However, h» secured four out of five races for which he ran as a two-year-old, and was undoubtedly the best of his year the following Reason, when Disraeli, Jeddah, and Wildfowler respectively captured the three classic events for colts. That year he competed four times, winning the Newmarket Stakes, In which the subsequent Derby victor Jeddah was unplaced; the Jockey Club Stakes, when he had Velasquez, Chela ndry a winner of the One Thousand the previous season, and the Oaks victress Airs and Graces behind him; and another race; while as a four-year-old Cyllene set the seal on his fame by taking the Ascot Cup, after cantering in for the Triennial Stakes on the Tuesday, these being the only two events he contested that season, and he was then retired to the stud. During the three years he was in training he captured stakes value £25.630. It was on May 6. 1905, that Sir William Bass paid £30,000 for Cyllene. to be delivered on July 1st following, and he in turn disposed of him at the end of January, 1908, to Madame Chev-I alier for £25,000, and he was later sent to the Ojo de Agua Stud, the horse to be lianued over at the end of that covering season, and it was here that he ended his days. Apart from his success as a stallion in England, where he headed the list of winning sires in 1909 and 1910, he has a great record as a winner producer in the Argentine, and was undoubtedly the greatest horse that ever left England for South America. News of the impending decay of Cyllene appeared in an interesting article in the "Bloodstock Breeders Review" for 1923, when the writer, Mr. David R. Gunn, giving his impressions of a visit to the Ojo de Agua SU:d, said: — "And now came thr culminating event of the day. I saw Cyllene. one of the greatest sires the world has ever seon. and the Grand Old Man of his kind — not on parade, but in his box, alive and yet dead. From his grand head to his shoulders he was unchanged from his best days, but he was a little more than a pathetic ruin behind. His back has fallen into a most pronounced dip. and there was but little flesh covering his skeleton." I may add that Waxy is the only other stallion to sire four rOpsom Derby winners, these being Tope in 1809, Whalebone the next year, Blucher in 1814, and Whisker In 1815. — Audax in London Horse and Hound.
