8 NEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. CASTLETON, VERY JAMES R. KEENE'S FAMOUS STOCK FARM AT IN THE HB elusive attention to this stable, and presides ov, ithe arrival of the future kings "lid queens of the turf. Of all the mares of brilliant lineage at Castle- ton, none are better known than Lady Reel. Mr. Ke ne paid $11,000 for this mare at the Marcus Dalj sale last October. Lady Reel Is the dam of the great Hamburg, best of all the two-year- olds of l^i'T. and winner of the Realization in 1898. When Lady Reel was Bold she was not Bupposed to be in foal to St. Simon, or she would have brought a much higher price. The unexpected happened, however, and Mr. Keene is to be the possesssor of a fine St. Simon- Lady Reel colt or filly,due this month- John EL Ifadden sold Hamburg to Marcus Daly for $Jihkh>, and he won over $45,000 for him. and was sold at the l>aly sale to William C. Whitney for $00,000. He won twelve out of sixteen starts as a two-year-old, and four out of five as a three-y< ar olI. These are the achieve- lie-!, and also ta> -. of Hamburg, son of Lady great th« Bon of Hanover. Bon of the Hindoo. Lady Reel is a half Bister to Domino and to Correction, dam of Yankee, two Futurity win- ners, and seems to realize her Importance, for she :ids it over the other br Imares when tv ned out with them, brooking no Interference with hr affairs, and sending the other matrons scampering with a nip here and a iharge there She has a worthy companion In Pastorella, Iy Bpringfleld—Griselda, an Imported mare, for v.... :. Mr. Keene paid $10,000 at the Daly sale. Mckwick, !i. the sa:::c lot ar- Lizzie whose principal claim to distil tlon Is thai she is the dam of All Green and Blue Grass !• lie, < wn blb great- i- ito Modesty, the two being about the this country ever saw among est racemares' •own 1 Blue Belle one- ran Judge X! KNK PADDOCKS sisters. Grass WHERE Till: BROODMARES AXD THEIR COLTS CUoW SLEEK IN THE Mo.row a dead heat at two miles, and beat him in the run off, inflicting such cruel punlshmeni on him that the Judge was never the same closely again. H>r own si.-ter is Modesty. They are great pastures. It would be unfair, however, to Pelle of Bfaywood, whose conformation son, T-nny, t.y War Dance, out of Ballet. oniii mention ofimp. Duchess Carolina, by Fox- resemoles that of hi? dam's famous T., Moss Rose, the dam of Henry of Navarre, was hall Caroline, !•> Musket, a mar.- recently pur- and another out ol the grand old mare EDa Include, Banquet bought for Castleton, but died soon after her chased- for Kingston's harem, a go d producer whose sons as already stated. dam. from pneumonia, contracted on the way and one of the finest looking broodmares on and Tea Tiny. Katharine 11. Petruchlo*S arrival Uriel, number from New-York. Field Azure is there, however, earth. aa well aa the darn of who won a Mr. Keene, and she is the most expensive of al! the Cast!. In a Bne, broad pasture fa< ing on the New- of valuable stakes in England for is yearling! by another ton matrons, as Mr. Keene paid the estate of trwn Pike are eight or ten old maps whose represented among th.- Marcus Daly $18,.r><X> for her. Field Azure was usefulness Is nearly over. Here the> ar.- al- Kingston < "it that will bear watching; but the foaled in England In 1889, and h.-r sire is the lowed to graze peacefully during the daj and prize youngster of the whole lot appears to be < colt, beauty and famed Bend or, a Derby winner. <>ut of Falaise. are carefully housed al nigh) Just as carefully i Kingston 'alien whose by Robert the Devil, winner of the Doncaster St. as though they wen in the heyday of their strength catch the eye of the must Inexpert be- Leger. She has now at foot a dashing brow n colt <.[,.•<\u25a0 splendid youth. Theii company Includes holder at once. the colts. If by !>.* Var. Optime is another Imported mate, si me "i the mo t famous matrons of the Ami ri- The fillies are not a whil behind Blly average among of and her sire is no less a stallion than Orme, a can tinr. including Belle of Maywood, now anything, the the fbala average The son of Ormonde, who had the Derby and St. twenty-five years old, the dam of the splendid 1!m»i excels the colt a trifle. col- of Leger to his credit. For Imported St. Mildred Tenny, for so long the popular Idol of the greal lection is headed by a filly by Kingston oat <ap Bells, Mr. Keene paid .f.VIOO. She is by St. Simon, out racegolng public, Elk. who has now }:• ii My Chree, the dam' of and who. and T.. anything, of Lady Fitzjames, and much is expe< ted of her. reached the exceedinglj ripe age of twenty-six, If breeding arid looks count for must two-year-old stakes of An outline of this distinguished company would and who has produced th< reni *ned Banquet, be reckoned with In the Citronella, ihown what be f;ir from complete without mention <•' Imp. Tea Thiy and Easter <;i:r sm -ly a wonderful r.t.i.",. who has already producing Compensation, rep- Ben My Chree. by Galopin rist.-r Queen, dam record and one well entitling hoi to peac< and she can do by Is of Cap and Bells, the famous daughter of plentj as long as she shall live. resent) d by another Kingston filly of evident • quality, sire Domino, who won th<- English Oaks last year. Thtre are at Castlcton this spring as i:r a 10l high while the same stallion is the No mare in the whole Id is more highlj valued of yearlings as are often seen together in the of .iyearling filly fit of Bonnie whose son, 11, for Mr. than she, and great hopes are entertained for the blue grass, and that means the world. Thej are Disg i..-••i..-•• has been winning fame turing among future of her produce, which includes a fine two- forty-five in number, and before ion^ they will Keene in England, ca] other stakes 10,000 year-old colt by Kingston, tap. Bonnie Gal, be getting their first lessons in racing lore. the Jockey Club Guinea Stakes last sea- dam of Disguise 11. is a royal looking and fault- About the middle of th- summer they will be son. Princess Flavia, too, is Bonnie GaTa lessly broil mare, being by Galopin, out of Bon- shipped in specially constructed cars to Brook- daughter. Every racegoef remembers the many nie Doon, the youngest daughter of thai great- dale, Mr. Keene's New Jersey .-st.ii.lishm.Tit, good races of White Rose, and will watch with est of all matrons, Queen Mary, tap, Editha, and there accustomed to the saddle and th>- interest for th<- appearance a yearling daugh- own sister to Melton; imp. Katherina 11, dam track, of course, not all of them willbe trained, ter of her by Kingston now at Castk-ton. of i'etruchio,— winner of the Brooklyn Derby, l>y but the best will be picked out, and the rest Que< nston. King!ton's sister, is the dam of a tine St. Simon Muirnlnn; imp. Citronella, by St. allowed to go. The weeding out process bids yearling t>> Horoscope, which Is also in this lot. Simon—Marqueaa, dam of Compensation, and fair to be an unusually difficult one. There are. It would not be right to end this brief refer- hosts of other superb imported mares, to des- for example, several colts of royal ancestry that ence to the most promising of the untried cant upon whose perfection of bluod lines would will run each other pretty closely. Kingston Is youngsters who as yet know nothing of racing - be to attempt to taint the rose, till the the sire of several cf them, including one out of and races but only that the blue griLS3 Is sweet « THE KINGSTON'S IMP. BEN MY CHBEE AND A KINGSTON COLT. MIOHTT.
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