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BASHTI ADMIRED IN ENGLAND. There is verv scant chance of Basliti being overlooked in England. Most of the scribes have Inspected her and have nothing but appreciative commendation for her. Of Dalmatian and Iron Mask but little has been written, but when it comes to Bashti the case is entirely different. In a recent number of London Sportsman is an article by "Special Commissioner" dealing with the three-year-old fillies of 1011 and of Bashti he has this to say: "Among our English fillies. Mr. Richards reckons Hair Trigger II. and Mary Carmichael as the best, though I" cannot sec on what grounds he handicaps them three pounds in front of Nicola. Indeed, he seems to me to have unduly underrated Sir Ernest Cochranes filly, which lias not run since she defeated St. Nat at Sandown Park. She must surely be entitled to credit for that performance, though she niav have been a bit lucky to win. Canvas Back is a fine, improving filly, and Kuoekfeerna is another that may come on a great deal. She is a beautifully-bred one, too. being by Desmond, out of own sister to Pretty Polly. Sandwich also has pretensions to front rank, but I should not bo in the least surprised to see them all beaten by the American liver. Bashti. This is the filly I strongly recommended some English owner to buy when she came up for salo in America last summer, -and J. B.Joel nearly made up his mind to bid up to 5,000 guineas for her but the sale came on before there was time for full inquire, and, as it happened, the sum named would not have bought her, for Mr. Whitney had to give a good deal more than that. "Vigilant" has this morning favored us with Bashtis pedigree, which is a peculiarly interesting one, for it shows a strong line of that wonderful horse Prince Charlie, both through sire and dam. , Clamart, the maternal grandsire of Adam sire of Bashti, was out of Princess Catherine, by Prince Charlie, and Princess Catherine was one of the best broodmares ever owned by M. Edmond Blanc. Hay-den Edwards, the maternal grandsire of Disadvantage dam of Basliti, was an American-bred son of Prince Charlie, and a very good one, too. Another interesting feature of the pedigree is that Disadvantage is a granddaughter, through her sire, of Cremorne, which Prince Charlie defeated for the Two Thousand Guineas after a desperate race, and which ho had also beaten as a two-year-old. Cre-mnrnp, however, had no wind infirmity, and the later careers of the pair diverged, after Prince Charlie had vainly tried to tackle the son of Parmesan at Epsom. Cremorne developed into one of the best Ascot Cup winners ever seen, while Prince Charlies deeds over shorter courses gained him a reputation which remains so long as any record or memory of racing remains. To the end of his career he conld still get the Rowley Mile, as was triumphantly demonstrated in his great match against the Cambridgeshire winner. Pcut Etre. Prince Charlie Wood has come to the front in Australia as well as America anl France, and it is worth noting that Great Scot has double lines of Prince Charlie, as Bashti has, only in his case somewhat closer up. Great Scot was an undoubtedly first-class horse when at his best, and he is an exceptionally grand one. In the pedigree of Bashti there is the further point that Flying Fox brings in a line of Breadalbane, brother to Blair Athol sire of Prince Charlie, aud there are very numerous other lines of Stockwell. as also one of King Tom and one of Rataplan. -Moreover, there arc two other lines of Pocahontas through. WelllDgtonia. whose sire, , Chattanooga, was out of Ayacanora, and whose dam was Araucaria, these two daughters of Pocahontas "being thus brought into extraordinarily close combination. If ever there was a case to disprove the hereditary theory of roaring it is furnished by such a pedigree as that of Bashti, conspicuous in which are the champion roarers, Ormonde and Prince Charlie twice, while Wellingtonias sire. Chattanooga, was one of the worst roarers ever heard, and Aran-caria was also unsound, as, of course, was Pocahontas. Yet, by all accounts, Bashti is a very sound-winded filly, as, indeed, were almost all the stock of Prince Charlie, and also of Ormonde. As to Wel-lingtonia, lie sired the Cesarewiteh and Cambridgeshire winner, Plaisanterie. which herself produced the Cesarewiteh winner, Childwick. I shall go further into the pedigree of Bashti in the "Figure Analysis" later on, but on this preliminary glance at it I am quite inclined to think that this lilly is likely to beat all comers of her own sex, no matter where bred."
