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WALDO AND HIS PROGENITORS. Salama, His Dam. Sold for the Proverbial Song How Madden Got His Sire. The ups and downs of life, even In 4he equine world, are well illustrated in tlie case of Salama. dam of the champion two-vear-old. Waldo- remarks the Louisville Courier-Journal. Last fall this mare was reckoned by good judges as only worth the trifling sum of :25. Today the same experts who then held her in such low esteem figure her value far into the thousands, as she now ranks as one of the most celebrated of the younger generation of thoroughbred stud matrons. It was at the 1908 November thoroughbred v sale at Lexington that she was sold for the Insignificant sum. Slie was listed with the other breeding stock owned by Captain W. Harry Brown, at the sale marking the passing of the noted Senorita Stud. At the same, time her bay colt, half-brother to Waldo, by Garry Hermann, now a yearling, fetched only 75. That was one day the bargain-counter hunters surely did not miss it. as it may be a long time before such a mare and such a weanling stud colt are secured for anything like that figure, a total of only 00. The honor of breeding Waldo belongs to" J. E. Madden, as he sold Salama with Waldo in utero in Novemler. 1!KC. to Captain Brown, but she then brought ,100. Tlie mare was bred by E. S. Gardner in the Avondale Stud in Tennessee, and Madden secured her when he bought the famous Ida Pickwick and a band of other mares and fillies from Gardner seven years ago. Salama Is now only nine years old. and Is a daughter of Himyar, the sire of Domino. Americas largest winning horse, and a remarkable progenitor, of speed through his daughters, the two Futurity winners. Yankee and Klectioneer. being out of mares by Himyar. as are also sucli other .brilliant performers as Black Venus. Tommy Atkins. Mamie Worth. Blackstock, Big lien and Unsightly, the dam of s -James. Salama never raced, but her dam. Soubrette II.. was a winner and produced six winners in Troublesome, Oakleaf. San Andres, Scalper. Limelight and Palms. Soubrette II. is a daughter of Farandoie. the sire of Banastar and Heliohns. and is one of seven winners produced hy the famous iriare. Sema-plwre. by Onondaga, the other six being Sedan. Suing. Shrove Tuesday. Sauterne arid the twb stake winners. Beckon and Hyphen. Semaphore is still alive and in the stud at Hamburg Place, and. though twenty-two years old. is an exceedingly well-preserved mare and gives promise of even yet contributing another foal or two to the turf. In addition to Waldo. Salama has even this early had another good performer on tin; turf Servile, also by Waldos sire. Planudes. having won no less than twentv-ohe races as a two and three-year-old in 1907 and 1!K8. Waldos brilliant winning performances this season in tlie Juvenile. Laureate. Maiihanset. Tremont. Flash and Saratoga Special stakes is a hard blow to those who have so recently advanced the opinion that the famous Levity line of race horses is dying out. On the dam side he is bred just like tlie mighty Ornament. His third dam is by Onondaga, the sire of the dam of Ornament, while he traces in six removes to the famous Crucifix, by Lexington. Hie great grand-dam of Ornament, and the latter, like Waldo, was sired by an English-bred horse. Crucifix is a sister to Nevada, the dam of Luke Blackburn, and Salina. the dam of Salvator. still the bolder of the American mile record against time, 1:35. Waldo lias about as long a pedigree as any race horse in training, lie tracing back twenty-soyen crosses to the Royal mare that is the tap root of the No. 12 family of the Bruce Lowe figure system. One day in the early winter of 1904 J. E. Madden and Ed Corrigan met in the late Gus Straus store in Lexington. Said Madden to the veteran turfman: "Corrigan. you have got a horse that I want; that imported horse you call Planudes.". "Oh, you dont want him," replied old man Ed. hes too small for a stallion. Nice race horse and Tidily bred. I will admit, but undersized for a stock horse. You have never seep, him ami you would not buy him if ycu Would take time to look him over." "Well." retorted Madden, "thats all right. What will you take for him. sight unseen? Would ,500 tempt you?" "Yes. that was just about what I thought of asking for him." said Corrigan, "but he is not the type of a horse I. should imagine that you need for a stallion at Hamburg Place." While Corrigan was answering him Madden was scribbling with a pen. seemingly on only a blank sheet of paper. Suddenly he looked up and, handing Corrigan a piece of paper, said: "Theres acheck for your money. I will send after the horse tomorrow morning." and that is tlie way Madden bought the sire of Waldo.. Planudes first contribution to the turf were the stake winners, Planute and Pcnrhyn, the latter being owned iu his early raoing career by II. M. Ziegler. the Cincinnati turfman, who sold the colt as a two-year-old for a long price. Since being in the stud nt Hamburg Place, besides Waldo. Plaiindes has sired such good performers as Meellck winner of three American Derbys in 190S. Lawton Wiggins. Ragman. Frosty Lancaster. Deuietrios. Old Nick. De Burgo. Tom Holland, Laughing Eyes, Miss Angle. .Miss Kearney. Schleswig. Tenancy by Courtesy and Troublesome. He was foaled in 1897. so Waldos sire was only nine years old when he got hiui and his dam was only seven years old when she foaled hiin. Planudes is one of the few horses that, after being a stake winner in England, was imported to this country and raced In winning form here. In England lie won the Molyneux Stakes at Liverpool, Trial Plate at Newmarket and Walton Plate at Epsom: ran second for the Eastern Handicap at Keinp-ton Park and Scurry Stakes at Doncaster, aud third for the Dudley Plate, one mile, at Wolverhampton and Yarborough Plate at Lincoln. In 1903. in this country, ho won .at six furlongs at New Orleans, also the same distance at Chicago and was placed also In his only other two starts this side of the Atlantic. He was only iu training part of the year 1903, being retired permanently to the stud the same season. Tlie idea lias prevailed in some quarters that Madden, wise to Penrliyns sensational trials as a yearling in tlie east, put one over ou Corrigan and beat tlie old veteran to it; or. in other words, had tlie latter been cognizant of tlie sensational form Zieglers colt had shown in private, he would have never sold him for anything like ,500. A more erroneous report never emanated. Madden bought Planudes because he was the only St. Simon horse in America that was out of an English Oaks winner, and that victress of Englands classic till v race was by an English Derby . winner. The fashionable oddity of this breeding struck him and the fact that he was on the small order also appealed to him. as" of late years he has sought,-in horses quality and pedigree instead of size, lie had tried Sandringham, a big horse, by St. Simon, at Hamburg Place, and he had not met his expectations, and he wanted to chance a small horse by that great sire, as he had an abiding faith in tlie blood lines of Englands champion sire. For nine seasons St. Simon headed the English list of win ning sires, and was second in 1902. falling back that year only for his own son. Persimmon, sire of the great Sceptre. His best, sons in England, beside Persimmon, are St. Frusquin, Florizel II., St. Serf. St. Hilaic. Childwiek. Tarporley. Desmond. Adieu, Raeburn, Greenan. His Reverence and St. Florian. Plamides must now be regarded bis most successful representative in this country, though his sons. Masetto, Bassetlaw, Greenan, Tithonus and Sandringham have each sired one or more performers of stake class. Lonel3". the dam of Planudes, won six races as a two-year-old in England, and as- a three-year-old won the Epsom Oaks and ran third in the Payne Stakes and Doncaster St. Leger, the last-named race being won that season by Melton, the sire of J. R. Keenes immortal Sysonby. In the stud Lonely also produced .Prisoner, .which as a two-year-old won the Troy Stakes, both at Stock-iridge and .Newmarket, aud when a three-year-old won the Doncaster Cup and the Triennial and Royal Stakes at Ascot. lie was also second that season to La Fleehe. one of the greatest mares that ever raced in England. In the Liverpool Autumn Cup, twelve starters, and third in the Cambridgeshire Handicap, beating La Fleehe and eighteen other starters. Other good produce of Lonely, besides Planudes and Prisoner, are Lowly. Arena dam of Rope Dancer, and Saintly, a winner at two years old of four races, including the Rous Memorial at Goodwood. National .Breeders Produce Stakes, at San-down and Woodcote Stakes at Epsom. Lonely Is a sister to the good race horse. Bachelors Button, and her dam. Anonyma. by Stockwell. was a stake winner, and her grand-dam. Miss Sarah, bv Don John, was a smart two and three-year-old winner. Tills pedigree then goes back to the famous Burton Barb mare, tlie tap root of the No. 2 family of the Bruce Lowe figure system. So Waldo is the result of crossing a No. 2 stallion on a No. 12 mare. Iist winter Madden leased the services of Planudes to a . company of Kentucky breeders. . but tlie leasehold stands only for the season of 1909. and next year Waldos sire will be back in his old stall at Hamburg Place. Madden bred many noted mares to Planudes in 190S and now at Hamburg Place there are weanlings by him out of sucli famous mares as Passan. dam of Edward; Matanza. dam of Lady Bedford: Royal Gun. dam of Gunfire; Saratoga Belle, dam of Fayette: Partridge, dam of Tlie Quail: Myrtle Hark ness. dam of Ace full: Ilithyia. dam of Meeliek: Astarita. Lady Schorr. Bremen, dam of Senator Barrett: Lacrimae. Unterock. dam of Selileswig: Lady Tarantella, half-sister lo Joe Madden: Dorothy Hampton, dam of Harrlgan: La Polka, dam of Keep Moving: Golden Drop. Lambent. Love Note and Frances McClelland. Waldos showing this season, coupled with tie fact that wise breeders In Kentncky stood by and saw his dam. Salama. sell last fall for a song, will be a reminder to those smart people in future thoroughbred sales to let no young mare of royal iHdl-gree. and surely in foal to a noted stallion, be virtually given away: in fact, had the Breeders Protective Association been in oiieration iu. 190S. this now .valuable stud matron might lie toiling in tlie cotton fields or the south, where Silk Gown.. the dam of Garry Hermann, so Ignobly ended her Uuy-j.
