Fonso is a dark chestnut colt, with a star and two white feet behind up
over the pasterns. He has grown and thickened greatly since last year, and
stands full 15-3/4 hands high. He is a very neat, wiry colt, with a good
head and rather short neck, which runs into well inclined shoulders. He
has great length of body, deep through the heart, good hips and stifles
with sound feet and legs. He has the best of tempers, and is rather
inclined to need forcing to make him run.
He was bred by A. J. Alexander, Woodburn Farm, Spring Station, Ky., and
purchased as a yearling by J. S. Shawhan, Shawhan, Ky., for $200, by King
Alfonso, out of imp. Weatherwitch by Weatherbit, her dam by Irish
Birdcatcher, out of Colocynth.