A FAMOUS HORSE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2256, 21 May 1881, Page 3

A FAMOUS HORSE.

The Kentucky " Live Btock Becord" learns that Mr F. B. Harper, of Midway, in that State, has priced his famous stallion Ten Broeck, nine years old, by imp. Phaeton, dam Fanny Holton by Lexington, to a party who desired to purohase the horse, at 75,000d01. The "Becord" says—" Some of the English papers say that Mr F. Gretton has refused an offer of a IOO.OOOdoI. for the bay horse Isonomy, six years old, by Sterling, dam Isola Bella by Stookwell. Between the two we , would much prefer Ten Broeck to Isonomy, as Ten Broeck is the finest and grandest looking horse in the world, from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. He has i done what no other horse ever did and retired from the turf without a daw or bkmißh, and is to-day as sound as a dollar. He has the fastest mile, lmin 39£-seo; the fastest two miles, 3min 27£seo; the fastest three milei, smin 26isec; and the fastest four miles, 7min 15Jseo—the latter 3:?see fuster than any horse has ever run four miles. Besides all this he breeds after himself; his colts, now yearlings, bear a striking likeness to him both in form, quality, and shape. We would regret to see such a horse leave Kentucky, as we firmly believe that ho will be our greatest sire within the next decade."