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LIEUTENANT GIBSON. r The well-known pedigree expert, W. H. Rowe, thinks pretty well of Lieutenant Gibson and in . a recent article says of some features of his ancestral blood lines: "Lieutenant Gibson is , by G. W. Johnson out of Sophia Hardy, she by Glengarry out of Unaka, she by Enquirer out of Wampee. she by John Morgan oat of Dora, she . by Australian out of Lindora by Lexington. Lindoras dam was the famous Picayune, whose descent is one of the best of our so called native" lines, although it has experienced somewhat hard luck in having its better class of representatives ineligible for the general run of . our classic events. In my list of famous three-year-old and senior event6, for example, I find it represented by only three successes up to ! 1899, these being the Kentucky Derbys of Vagrant in 1876 and Lookout in 1893, and Ida Hopes Alabama in 1885. " She was one of the best broodmares in America was written of Picayune in the earliest . Stud Book, however, and one may regard her . female line as having met much the same ill luck in the American classics as has characterized family 19 in England. We have an evidence of this close up in Lieutenant Gibson"s pedigree, too. for his fourth dam, Dora, produced Calomel, the dam of Rat-eland, whose absence from the classics of his day was but one of a long series of similar conditions in the familys history. "G. W. Johnsons sire, Iroquois, was by Leamington, as also was Enquirer ; but we find in Lieutenant Gibsons pedigree much the same conditions as seem to necessarily obtain in all cases of conspicuously successful inbreeding to Leamington. Dora was by Australian he by West Australian, son of Melbourne out of Lindora, by Lexington. Enquirers dam was by Lexington out of a mare who brought a decidedly close doubling of this male line of Diomed. of which Lexington liimself possessed three very close lines. Iroquois dam we know to have been by Australian out of a mare by Boston, sire of i Lexington, while the granddam of G. W. Johnson was by Vandal, who came close from the sane line of family 12 which produced Lexington. "Vandal himself was by Glencoe, of whom Lieutenant Gibson has two other strains, while Queen Mary and Alice Hawthorne, two of Englands greatest matrons, are found at close range in the dam of G. W. Johnson and the sire of Sophia Hardy. Indeed, this latter horse Glengarry combines a double line of Touchstone 141 blood, which is well associated with the Leamington 14 in Enquirer, nicked as it is in G. W. Johnsons pedigree by Iroquois. "An interesting feature of Lieutenant Gibsons granddam, Wampee, is the fact that her j sire, John Morgan, brings another great line of 12, through the fact that his dam was Sallie Lewis, by Glencoe, from whose female line came such gems as Susquehanna. Potomac. Sensation, . Harold, etc.. all these being characterized by the Leamington-Lexington-Glencoe association found to be so closely allied in Lieutenant Gibsons granddam."
