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WATER PEARL FURNISHES A LESSON. "One of the features of the thovoughbred. season has been the performance of the two-year-old colt Water IVarl," says the Hor.se Review. "He lias won six stake races and his winnings reach the enormous sum ..of .2,506, despite the fact that he got off early in the season and was unable to compete in many of Ins richest engagements. He Is by. many turfmen considered the best colt of the year, not. even barring Salvidere or Electioneer. "These facts are interesting, but hot so interesting as is the remarkable breeding of this remarkable colt. He was sired by Watercress,, and his dam is Pearl V., who was by Salvator, out of Firenzc. Salvator is generally regarded as the greatest racehorse, and Pirenze as the greatest race mare, in modern American thoroughbred history. Salvator won sixteen races and 20,120, and Pirenze forty-seven races and 10,156. Both were owned, by one man, Mr. J. K. iiassin,. and when they were retired they were mated., Pearl V. was their second joint produce. Besides her Pirenze foaled several times inpre to th6 covers of Salvator and of other horses, before lie.r. death at a comparatively early age. None of . .her produce of which much was". ".PNpeeted proved great racehorses, .although several of theni, including Pearl V., were winners. For some inexplicable reason they seemed unable to approach the achievements of their mighty dam, and witli this as a text, those critics who are opposed to the developed dam theory of breeding gave free rein to tljclr sarcasms and satires. But, while Firenzes foals failed as great racers, they are breeding on with marked success. Pearl V.-has three sisters and half sisters that have produced notable winners, although young in the stud, while she has herself, previous to Water PcarL produced Sir Voorhies, a stake winner at two, arid Rapidus, a consistent winner for three seasons. "There is a lessonin this which" will not be lost o.rt; those students of breeding who aspire to not merely skim the surface of their subject, but conscientiously endeavor to penetrate its depths. It is . the lesson of the inevitable potency, at the stud, of ..the. blood of the greatest turf jerform"ers. It may-not immediately demonstrate itself in the first generation, but, to use the homely simile, like cream It Is bound, ultimately, to rise to the top."
