. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. VoL XXXIU. No. 19. No. 22,4 GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 32,1898. 8TTBSCBXPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR ORMONDE YEARLINGS. No sale of thoroughbred held in the United States has drawn the attention and interest which has been aroused by the announcement that the yearlings by the great Ormonde will be sold in this city one week from Monday nest by Killip & Co., that old reliable firm of live stock auctioneers which has sold nearly ninety per cent of all the first-class horses ever put under the hammer in California. From every
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. VoL XXXIU. No. 19. No. 22,4 GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 32,1898. 8TTBSCBXPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR ORMONDE YEARLINGS. No sale of thoroughbred held in the United States has drawn the attention and interest which has been aroused by the announcement that the yearlings by the great Ormonde will be sold in this city one week from Monday nest by Killip & Co., that old reliable firm of live stock auctioneers which has sold nearly ninety per cent of all the first-class horses ever put under the hammer in California. From every portion of the United States where race horses are owned or bred have come inquiries about the aristocratic young fillies sired by the horse of the century, and it looks as though the California breeders who are looking with covetous eyes upon them, will have to meet the bids of some of the best buyers and most en- thusiastic breeders of the East if they keep the young maidens here onth e golden shore. There are only five of them, but all are out of grandly bred mares, and for looks, size and conformation, are a credit to that grand "horse of the century," who outlooked and out- ran every horse in Eng- land that was ever pitted against him. "What will they bring?" was asked one of the best posted horse dealers in America the other day, and the an- swer was. "I don't know, but I would like the op- portunity of securing the lot at the price they will be sold for, and taking them to England to be re- sold. I am absolutely certain that those five fillies would sell for more money than any five year- lings by one horse ever brought at a sale in Eur- ope, and some mighty high prices have been paid ; These fillies are the very cream of the year in America. The first one to be led into the ring, Orthia out of Muta, by Wildidle will create a sensation. Muta won the Ladies Stakes, Vestal Stakes, The California Derby and California Oaks and produced Cha
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