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.v - GALLINULES ASTONISHING VIRILITY. Next New Years Day Gallinule will be twenty-eight years of age, for he was foaled in 1SS4. Is it not, therefore, most remarkable to find him the sire of nine of this seasons winning two-year-olds! At the present moment no other sire can lay claim to so many successful juveuiles. The American horse, Hamburg, runs him close with eight. Then comes Lord Bobs with seven, followed by Farmar., Minstead, and Thrush, with six each, and Eager, Desmond, Matchmaker, Oppressor, Santry, and Symington with live each. Of late years we have seen Sundridge, Eager, Mnuvczin. and one or two other sires represented on the turf by half a score or so of winning two-year-olds in one season, and away across the Atlantic Cesarion has "turned them out" by the score. The significance of Gallinules record lies, however,: In the fact that he was twenty-four years old when he begot the crop that have keot his name to the fore these last few months. His vitality must bo extraordinary almost comparable with that of the first Derby winner, Diomed, who was shipped to the United States when twenty-two years of age. lived for nine more years, and founded a dynasty in the land of his adoption. Comparisons can be not only odious, but misleading. It is, nevertheless, interesting to recall that in 1908, when St. Simon was the same age as Gallinule is now it was the year he died he was credited with no two-year-old winner. It so happens that seven of Gallinules nine two-year-old winners are fillies. Thev are Alope, a chestnut out of Altoviscar, by Donovan: Astra, a bay out of .Manuka, by Eager: Shocking Bird, out of Startling, by Laveno: a chestnut out of Halma, by Boulevard, son of Uncas; Nedda, a chestnut out of Nlrvanali, by Eager; Glisten, a chestnut out of Diamantee. by Diamond Jubilee: and Jlmena. a chestnut out of La Roche, bv St. Simon. The two colts are Oiscau Bleu, a bay. out of Petit Bleu, by Eager, and Win Stanley, a bay out of Alda by Galopln. It will be noticed that three of the dams are by Eager, so that in those cases the produce is closely lu-bred to Sterling, both Gallinule and Eager being grandsons of that Yardley jewel. Four of the other dams are direct descendants of .Galopln. London Sporting Life.
