. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. for four year olds, and his mark of 2:03J- as a five year old has only heen equalled by Audubon Boy. He is a horse of rare individuality and is pronounced one of the most perfect specimens of horseflesh ever foaled. Two minute speed he can show at any time. He paced a trial in 2:02 in public at Indianapolis, pulling the heavy cart in which he is now daily exercised at Pleas- anton, and the last quarter of that mile was paced in 29J seconds. He is a horse of great substance, great speed and great endurance and a very high order of intelli- gence. It was at the r
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. for four year olds, and his mark of 2:03J- as a five year old has only heen equalled by Audubon Boy. He is a horse of rare individuality and is pronounced one of the most perfect specimens of horseflesh ever foaled. Two minute speed he can show at any time. He paced a trial in 2:02 in public at Indianapolis, pulling the heavy cart in which he is now daily exercised at Pleas- anton, and the last quarter of that mile was paced in 29J seconds. He is a horse of great substance, great speed and great endurance and a very high order of intelli- gence. It was at the request of California breeders who sent their mares to him two years ago and who are highly pleased with the colts, that Mr. Mills brought Searchlight back to this State. Searchlight's sire, Dark Night, was by the same sire as the famous McKinney 2:11J, recently sold for $25,000 and taken from California to Indiana, where he com- mands a fee of $200. Searchlight will make the season of 1903 at Pleasanton race track at the reasonable fee of $75. He is himself a great race horseâone of the greatest that ever drew applause from a grand stand full of admirers, and his breeding and individuality are such that he cannot help being a great sire of ex- treme speed and game race horses. day. His sire is Bonnie Boy 2:25 that has 16 in the 2:30 list. Bonnie Boy is by Patchen Wilkes, sire of the great Joe Patchen 2:01j-, and his dam is the pro- ducing mare Bonnie Maid by Sherman a son of Geo. Wilkes and sire of 19 in 2:30 or better. The dam-of Lecco is the great broodmare Lucy Homer, by Homer a speed producing son of Mambrino Patchen, the great sire of broodmares and the sire of the great Mambrino King. The second dam of Lecco is also a producer, Dinnie 2:25, and she is by the producing stallion Rochester that is a son of Aberdeen, grandsire of Anzella 2:06}. His next dam is a producing mare by Clark Chief whose get are SEARCHLIGHT 20:3 1-4. need be said about his magnificent breading and
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