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I MIDLOTHIAN AND FIRENZI GONE. Within a short time two of the greatest celebrities of the Rancho del Paso stud have passed away, viz., Midlothian and Firenzi. Midlothian sired winners of about ,0C0,0C0, of which Sir Walter, winner of tho Brooklyn Handicap, contributed nearly 29,060. Firenzi was the best race mare that ever trod the American turf, in all likelihood, winning forty-seven races and 10,671, while in her first sixty-five starts she was "out of the money" but once. She carried as high as 128 pounds to victory, and at the longer distances this little mare she was about fifteen hands in height was invincible. During her turf career Firenzi twice won the Champion Stakes at Monmouth Park and ran second in it once, twice won the Monmouth Cup, tho Fironzs Stakes at Jerome Park and the New York Handicap at Coney Island carrying 126 and 128 pounds, and the Freehold Stakes, one and a half milos, at Monmouth Park, no less than three times, and in successive years. Her winnings were as follows : 2,710 as a two-year-old, 2,630 as a three-year-old, 6,116 as a four-year-old, 9,985 as a Ave-yoar-old, 4,470 as a six-year-old and ,760 ran but three times as a seven-year-old. Firenzi was brought to Rancho del Paso in the fall of 1891 along with the king of our turf, Salvator, and the pair were mated the following spring, the produce being Firenzeta,- who, sent to the stud early, is the mother of the fair turf performer. Rassenzo, a three-year-old this season. Firenzetas first foal died at foaling time. Tho second of Firenzis produce was Pearl V., who shines as the dam of Lapidns, a fast and game little fellow, also a three-year-old. Both were developed by Walter B, Jennings. Firenzi defeated every great race horse of her day save Salvator, which was her stable companion, the scalps of Kingston, Raceland, Riley, Earns and Elkwood, Exile and The Bard, Hanover,. Montrose, Connemara, Wary and Terra Cotta having dangled from her little belt. But it was as a racer that she shone brighter than aDy star in the mare firmament, for when she was sent to the stud, immediately after six years of hard campaigning, Firenzi had not had the time to change from an athlete into a model stud matron, and it will ever be thus when such action is taken with great race mares. Burns and Waterhouse have a beautiful place just out of Hopeland, on the edge of Mendocino county, and recently fitted it up in first class style. They have for stallions, Altamax, Mount McGregor, Eddie Jones, First Tenor, Lovdal, Colonel Wheeler and Take Notice, the last named being the only old horse in the collection. Their mares are for the most part noted turf performers, they being Bit of Fashion winner of tho Debutante Stakes at St. Louis, by Forest Welcome ; Berna dam of Bernota and Oakingtan, by Cheviot Sweet Peggy; Cosstte, dam of Captain Coster, Zeta, Candelaria, Cozenza, Corolla and Maxette by i Joe Hooker Abbie W., therefore a sister to La Scala, dam of the great Sir Walter ; Duckling dam of Adirondack, a stake winner, by Brutus Decoy Duck; Decoy Duck dam of Long Lady, Duckling and Duckoy, a stake winner, by Longfellow Call Duck; Dulcie Larondie, a winner, by Himyar Lou Pike dam of the unbeaten French Park; Early Rose dam of Ebony, Eddie Jones and Tem-prano, by Duke of Montrose Talega ; Free Love dam of Lovdal, Norblieh, Midlove, Bee Bee and Dunfree, by Luke Blackburn Janet Norton; Happy Maiden dam of Rollick and Torso Maid, by Midlothian Felicity; Hoolou dam of Homage by Joe Hooker Lou Spencer; Humidity a stake winner and sister to Mabel Glenn, Catalpa, Dungarven, by Hindoo Calphurnia; Juanita winner of thirteen races and dam of Alta-wan, by Galore Druidess ; Kruna dam of Amo-rnna, by Plevna Abukru; Miss Ban, by Major Ban Louisa D. ; Miss Rowena a stake winner that won eighteen races as a three-year-old, by Midlothian Paloma ; Mistletoe a winner and dam of City Girl, Mistleton and Mythrox, by Thad Stevens Mistake ; Napamax a stake winner that captured seventeen races in three seasons, by Maxim Napa; Picnic a stake winner and dam of Nicnac, Alma, Recreation, Excursion, Galene, Sea Bass and the great Maxnic by Mr. Pickwick Countess ; Palomacita a good winner by Surinam Paloma queen of the B. and W. farm and a most phenomenal producer, dam of Palomita, Armitage, Examiner, Palomacita, Don Claroncio, Miss Rowena, Panamint, Yellow Tail and Polonius by The Drummer Canary dam of Candid; Rustrice, by Flood Rosetta; Recreation a stake-winnor that won fifteen races by the great Morello Picnic; Shasta Water a stake winner which won Bixteen races by Maxim Tyranny ; Sonomis dam of Alsono by Joe Hooker Blizzard ; Sweet Faverdale winner of twelve races, including two stakes by Faverdale Sw9et Homo a wonderful producer ; Sweet rose dam of Spainwar by Flambeau Fairy Rose dam of Racine, Flirt, etc., and last, not least, Talluda dam of Lord Chesterfield, Bonibel, Lomond, David ., First Love and Thaddeus, by Enquirer Tallulah, a great producer. Besides, the firm owns the good race mare, Heigh Ho, by Himyar Janet best long distance mare of her day, which ran four miles in 7:251. The success of Burns and Waterhouse as breeders is very distinct, and when one looks over the list of their mares and sees what performers, most of them were and that those which did not win were producers of note, their success is easily understood, for they are breeding from stake winners or producers of stake winners, while all the sires they are using were stake winners. That is the way to fix a typo and blood will tell nearly every time. Nearly all the great race horses of the world were bred to be "phenoms," having many generations of stake horses in unbroken succession on both sides of the house. Altamax, the premier stallion on the farm,lis the most phenomenal yowng sire in the far west, and perhaps no other stallion in America bsgot three euch youngsters in one season as Alsono, Maxnic and Thaddens. And Altamax will almost surely improve with age, for stallions are seldom at their best until at least fifteen years of age. Norfolk was twenty-six when he begot the unbsaten El Rio Rey, Joe Hooker seventeen when he sired Yo Tambien, Longfellow about eighteen when Longstreet came into the world, Leamington au old horse when tho undefeated Sensation saw the light, Musket very ancient when Maxim wau begotten, and so we might go on, statistics showing that nine times out of ten a stallion is not at his best until at least fifteen years of age and oftener at the height of his powers when nearer twenty. And speaking of Maxim, Burns and Waterhouse have more of this blood than almost any one, and it is becoming oagerly sought after. San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman.
