. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. The Training Stables at Wickiup wall, a photograph or two and an oil portrait of some turf hero. The engravings are gay-looking and brightly col- ored, fresh as this morning's daisies. But they are worth looking at—all old Fuller prints of a hundred years ago:—Fillio La Puta, that won the St. Leger in 1815, by Sutherland; St. Patrick that won it in 1S20: Theodora in 1822; Spaniel that won the Derby in 1839—all contemporary pictures. Adjoining this pleasant eyrie are elaborately equipped bath rooms on one side, and on the other an equally well equipped pantry wh
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. The Training Stables at Wickiup wall, a photograph or two and an oil portrait of some turf hero. The engravings are gay-looking and brightly col- ored, fresh as this morning's daisies. But they are worth looking at—all old Fuller prints of a hundred years ago:—Fillio La Puta, that won the St. Leger in 1815, by Sutherland; St. Patrick that won it in 1S20: Theodora in 1822; Spaniel that won the Derby in 1839—all contemporary pictures. Adjoining this pleasant eyrie are elaborately equipped bath rooms on one side, and on the other an equally well equipped pantry where the same discriminating taste that selected the pictures for the walls and the youngsters for the stables below has seen that the lemonades and other potions or rare and alien vintages were arranged with a catholicity of taste and ripe judiciousness as to quality. To the rear of these is the reviewing stand afore- mentioned whence one ma}' watch the horses with- out having to step downstairs. of all ages. The three-year-old who can sweep up three such open events, and take the Belmont Stakes as well, must be pretty much "the horse of a ; And there seems every reason to assume that his victories as a three-year-old may yet be eclipsed by his achievements as a sire. Friar Rock is a half brother to Fair Play and Golden View (the dam of Rock View). His dam, Fairy Gold, is full sister to the English stallion All Gold, imported by Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, which is now such a great success at the stud. His sire, the mighty Rock Sand, who died in 1915, was a success in the stud from the first, and was also sire of such great racers as Tracery, Rock Flint. Trap Rock, Flint Rock, Coastwise, Vulcain, Rock View and dozens of others. He was winner, among other events, of the Derby, the St. Leger and the Two Thousand Guineas, and was in effect the big- gest money winner ever known on the English turf, with a prize list aggregating a quarter of a million
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