view raw text
SALVIDERE BRED TO WIN SARATOGA SPECIAL. "It was a great peforniance, but the victory of Salvidere is not without Its pathetic angle," says E. C. Smith in the course of his comment on the Saratoga Special in the Morning Telegraph. "Salvidere was lired by the late Captain Sam Brown, who just missed winning the Saratoga Special of 1003 with Broomstick. Captain Brown had an especial fancy for this race, was always a subscriber to it, aiid It was his great ambition to breed a winner of the great event. "He had been breeding thoroughbreds in a limited way for many years, but not until the late William C. Whitney established the Saratoga Special did he go into breeding on anything like an extensive scale. Shortly after the running: of the first Saratoga Special Captain Browri bought a farm in Kentucky, which he nariied Senorlta Stud, in honor of a mare that had borne his colors to many a good victory In the old days. "Here Captain Brown established a number of the choicest matrons that money could buy. No price was too high for lilm to pay for the right material. He declared that his one ambition was to breed a winner for the Saratoga Special, and that If he could do so he would lie well repaid for any expense his breeding endeavors riiight put lilm to, even if not another winner ever came from Senorlta Farm. "For the first few years Captain Brown bred many of Ills mares to outside sires. In 100" AV. II. Rowe, the breeding expert, was called into consultation by Captain Brown in regard to mating his mares. The Captain had taken one senson to Sir Dixon, and Mr. Rowe decided that this would be the proper mating for Sallie of Navarre because of the doubling of the blood of Leamington. But Captain Brown had a desire to breed the great Reckon, which he had purchased for 4,500, to Sir Dixon. " All right, said Mr. Rowe. You have a season to Belvldere, the full brother to Sir Dixon. Breed Sallie of Navarre to him, and you get the same infusion of blood, even if Belvldere Is not so good "a sire as Sir Dixon. "This was decided upon and Salvidere is the result. Reckon, bred to Sir Dixon, produced Estimate, a winner tills season, but a moderate one so far. "Captain Browns great desire to breed a Saratoga Special winner was therefore gratified before he had been breeding extensively, for two years, but before the running of the race Captain Brown had been gathered to his fathers and Salvidere carried the colors of another in the race. The case of Captain Brown parallels that of the late Marcus Daly, who died just when the great breeding plans he had laid out began to bear fruit. Sysoriby was a case in point. "Salvidere is not only a good arid game colt, but there is no better blood lines in the pages of the Stud Book than those represented by him. "Sallie of Navarre, his dam, is by Henry of Navarre, out of Sallie McClellarid, botli of which horses did valiant service for the late Byron McClelland. Sallie McClelland was by Hindoo, out of Red and Blue, by Alarm, iier" next daui was Slaggie B. B. Henry of Navarre, the sire of Sallie of Navarre, Is by Knight of Ellerslie and he by the Leamington horse Eoius. "Salvidere furnishes a striking illustration of a horse bred with the utmost precision for the winning of a certain race and making good. Such Instances are few and far between, arid the pity of It all is that Captain Brown could not have lived to see the fruition of ids one great hope and the greatest ambition of the closing days of a busy life."
