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STORY OF STAMINAS ORIGIN. Stamina, the first Ally to win the second half of the Double Event in the nineteen years of its running, is the result of the mating of two magnificent cripples, nnd her performance at Sheepsliead Bay yesterday puts her in line for the honors among the two-year-old fillies of this year. Staminas sire is Nasturtium, which won the first half of the Double Event In 1901 and was considered the premier two-year-old of that year. The late William C. Whitney paid 0,000 for him, and lie was sent to England to run for the Derby the following year, but went amiss. His best race was In the Flatbush Stakes, which he won in a canter, running the seven furlongs in 1:25-. Endurance by Right, the dam of Stamina, was acknowledged the best two-year-old filly of 1901, but she never had an opportunity to prove her racing qualities beyond that age. She was bred by Milton Young at McGratliiana Stud and was sold as a yearling late in the fall to W. S. Barnes for 50. Mr. Barnes sent her to Memphis the next spring to be trained by Hiram Steele. John W. Schorr saw her work a phenomenal trial one morning and forthwith closed with Mr. Barnes for her racing qualities for the season, paying ,500. She won her first two starts, finished third in the next and then won seven straight. By this time she seemed invincible and Mr. Schorr bought her outright for 5,000. Ho took her east from Chicago and she met her second defeat behind Nasturtium and Goldsmith in the Flatbush Stakes, hut no horse ever finished In front of her again. She won her next seven races, the first six of these, including the Great Eastern, the Willow and the Holly Handicap, for Mr. Schorr, and the last, the thirty-fifth running of the Champagne Stakes of ,375, for William C. Whitney, who had paid 5,000 for her a few days before. Tims she started eighteen times, won sixteen of her races and was twice third. She went Into winter quarters with the Whitney horses at Westbury, caught the influenza and was so badly oft the next spring that racing her was out of the question. Mr. Whitney sent her to the stud and in 1903 mated her to Hamburg. The result was a brown colt in J 90-1. lie was named The Lame Duck, because of a twisted foot, and, of course, was never raced. At the sale of the stallions and mares belonging to the Whitney estate in October, 1901, Harry Payne Whitney retained Endurance" by Right, then in foal to Nasturtium, for 0,000, and Nasturtium was sold to Milton Young for 0,000, and is now owned by him in partnership with J. S. Stoll. Mr. Whitney has a yearling bay colt by Hamburg out of Endurance by Right, which is said to be one of the best-looking of the youngsters at Brookdale Stud.
