. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. When the late Thos. Keating piloted the well- formed, smooth-gaited pacing stallion Searchlight 2:03% through the California Circuit, the gameness of this son of Darknight was a favorite topic among horsemen. After being taken East on the Grand Cir- cuit he fulfilled the prophecies and verified the pre- dictions of everyone that he would make all the- horses he met do their level best to beat him to the wire. He met the fastest pacers in the United States at that time and defeated all of them. He was then turned out and nothing was done with him for years. Fina
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. When the late Thos. Keating piloted the well- formed, smooth-gaited pacing stallion Searchlight 2:03% through the California Circuit, the gameness of this son of Darknight was a favorite topic among horsemen. After being taken East on the Grand Cir- cuit he fulfilled the prophecies and verified the pre- dictions of everyone that he would make all the- horses he met do their level best to beat him to the wire. He met the fastest pacers in the United States at that time and defeated all of them. He was then turned out and nothing was done with him for years. Finally he was returned to California to make a few seasons and was bred to about sixty mares, and, since his progeny has been handled every owner of a Searchlight is envied by his neighbors. If the great champion Searchlight never sied any others than the two-year-old Ray O' Light 2:13%, champion of 1907. and the smooth going three-year-old Aerolite (trial 2:05%), his reputation was made; but he has left others that have a license to be as great as these "marvels of ; One of these is the beautiful brown colt Bonnie Searchlight 43899. His dam is Rita B., by Boodle Jr., he by Boodle 2:12%, one of the best bred trotting stallions and sires ever brought to California, tracing as he did to Goldsmith 2:14, and Jay Gould 2:20%, both champions in their day, while Boodle Jr.'s dam was by the great Electioneer out of Gabilan Maid (sister to Lady Ellen, dam of six trotters, three sires of thirteen and two dams of five BONNY McKINNEY The fame of McKinney 2:11% as a racehorse and a sire is not bounded by the seacoast line of the United States, but it extends to the farthermost points of the world. His career in California is known to all who have taken an interest in the light harness horse industry, and, although he has for several years occupied a leading place on one of the best stock farms in the East, his sons which he left in California are adding lustre to his na
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