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VESPASIAN GIFT STALLION John Sanford Donates Son of Stefan the Great to Breeding Bureau . of Jockey Club. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 4. The breeding bureau of The Jockey Club announces that it has acquired the stallion Vespasian. This horse was donated by John Sanford of Sanford Stud Farm, Amsterdam, N. Y., and he will be shipped immediately to the farm of George V. Bailey, Horses Home, Glen Head, Long Island, where he will stand during the impending stud season. Foaled in 1923, he is by Stefan the Great, from Dark Flight, by Dark Ronald. Stefan the Great has been remarkably successful as a sire of jumpers in this country. One of his most famous sons, Indigoj the property of John Schiff, won the Carolina Cup at Camden, S. C, last Saturday. This victory was his second in two starts thus far this season. He won the Sandhills Cup at Pinehurst the week before. In 1935 he was the champion of the timber toppers, wanning six of seven starts, including the Meadowbrook Cup. Luckite, another son of Stefan the Great, was the champion brush horse of last year. St. Francis, Mrs. T. W. Durants well-known gray, was a frequent winner at hunt meetings and won the Temple Gwathmey Memorial Steeplechase at the United Hunts last autumn. On the same day another Stefan the Great, Joseph E. Wideners Bushranger, one of the best steeplechasers in the country, won the Whitney Gold Cup at a mile and a half on the flat. With this blood in his veins Vespasian should be a valuable addition to the breeding industry on Long Island. Vespasian is a bay horse standing over sixteen hands, and weighs about 1,200 pounds. He is sound, of good confirmation, and has clean straight legs and good bone. He raced as a two-, three- and four-year-old. As a two-year-old he started only three times, but at three he won five of his fifteen starts, finished second three times and third once at distances of from five and a half furlongs to one mile and a sixteenth. He was also a winner at four. With proved ability on the turf and coming of a line of horses which have demonstrated their worth in producing staying quality, this horse should produce the type so much in demand today. In accordance with the policy of the breeding bureau, which is to place suitable stallions at the disposal of those who are interested in improving the strain of the light horse in this country and are unable to afford large stud fees, this horse will stand at a nominal price within the reach of all. -
