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FASHIONABLE LINES OF BREEDING I The idea of importing a sire of the male line of Pantaloon PantaloonIt It was the late D D Withers who made the re ¬ mark to us several years since at the time Mr Haggin had Imported Sir Modred from New Zea ¬ land landThormanby Thormanby was supposed to be from the male line of Pantaloon we returned returnedThormanby Thormanby Thormanby replied Mr Withers with that peculiar habit of repeating his words ies I have always considered Thormanby one of the greatest race horses of bis generation But he was not equally successful as a sire Besides how do we know he was of Pantaloons male line his pedigree is given as by Melbourne or Wind hound There was every reason to believe he was a son of Windhound So I understood said Mr W but whether he was or was not the line of Pantaloon has not been a success Mr Vanderbilts colt Montrose is now said to be the best twoyearold In France and as he is a son of Malntenon a sire in the fourth remove from Thormanby there is a possibility of a revival of Pantaloons male line as follows Maintenon Lc Sagittaire Le Sancy Atlantic Thormanby Wind hound Pantaloon In 1900 Malntenon was the crack colt of France winning the French Derby etc His sire Le Sagittaire was au excellent racer in 1S9495 and was a son of the gray horse Lc Sancy which in five seasons 18SG9O won twenty six races beating Tenebreuse and all the best ones of his day and in England was third for the Lan ¬ cashire AyrshireIndeed Plate to Sea Breeze and Ayrshire Indeed Le Sancy son of Atlantic and Gem of Gems by Strathcocan seemed to improve with age he was better at four than ct three years and better at five than at four and won all his races at six including the Grand Prix de Deauville As a sire he has been very successful Mr Thomas B Merry Hidalgo in his interesting work The Ameri ¬ can Thoroughbred remarks I saw Le Sancy a gray horse sixteen years old bred from the male line of Pantaloon through Windhound Thormanby Atlantic that was a fine horse in any country He had the best legs and feet I ever saw under a horse of his age and his daughter Semendria had won the Grand Prix de Paris a few weeks before 1 arrived there therePantaloon Pantaloon foaled 1824 was considered the most beautiful horse of his time which his portrait by aerring seems to justify Indeed bis picture wooing hryne is one of the most beautiful of that ex ¬ quisite collection The British Stud that Eng ¬ lands great artist has left us Possibly The Libel was his best son but his matings with Phrync pro ¬ duced Elthirou The Reiver Hobble Noble and AVindhound the latter the generally accepted sire of Thormanby and as Galopin revived the line of Jlacklock as Barcaldine revived the line of Mel ¬ bourne so Thormanby through his son Atlantic has revived the line of Pantaloon PantaloonAlice Alice Hawthorn the dam of Thormanby was one of the most famous mares in the history of the British turf A daughter of Muley Moloch and Rebecca by Lottery she was bred by J Plummer of Skipton in 183S who sold her as a yearling but had her thrown on his hands afterwards the pur ¬ chaser backing out of his bargain She remained in Mr Plummers possession unbroken until she was over threeyears old when by an arrangement with Lenny Hesseltine to divide profits she was sent to his stable at Hambleton In October 1841 she ran three races winning two both at two mile licats It was in very moderate company but her trainer had discovered her merits and during the winter used to insist upon every visitor seeing the winner of the next Chester Cup stripped So little attention had she attracted that she got in the Cup at 84 pounds and beat a band of eighteen her tarty winning an immense stake in bets After thai she won the Gold Cups at Richmond and North allerton and most of her races racesIn In 1843 she again was pointed 4 r the Chester Cup with 120 pounds but her stable companion Millepede was allowed to win with 101 pounds and at the time it was freely charged that Alice could have won had her party desired it She started twentysix times that season at all dis ¬ tances many heat races and with as high as 13 pounds In 1844 she for the third time started for the Chester Cup two and a quarter miles with 134 pounds and was second to Red Deer 56 pounds in a field of twentysix She conceded the winner 78 pounds It Is still considered the great weight carrying feat of history But there was a great scandal it being freely asserted that she would have won looseAlice had Bob Hesseltine let her head loose Alice Hawthorn raced until eight years old She started In sixtynine races of which she won fifty and divided one In addition to the Chester Cup that brought her into notoriety she won the Don caster Cup twice the Goodwood Cup eighteen Queens Plates and gold cups everywhere She de ¬ feated all the best horses three Derby winners and an Oaks winner included but the knotty point which lias often been discussed as to which was the best Alice or Beeswing remained unsettled as they never met Alice was sent to the stud in 1S4G but missed and again In 1S17 both to Lanercost In 1849 her first foal Young Hawthorn was by Lanercost In 1850 she had Lord Fauconberg by Birdcatcher 1851 Tcrrona by Touchstone 1852 Oulston by Melbourne 1853 Findon by Touchstone 1854 Lady Hawthorn by Windhound 1855 Cox wold by Flying Dutchman In 1856 she slipped a foal by West Australian AustralianIt It was in 1856 that Oulston had been so highly tried that Mr R Plummer whose property Alice had become at the death of his brother resolved to liave another Melbourne colt and the mare was sent to that lord paramount of the stud But learning that Alice and every other marc except one broke to Melbourne Mr Plummer had her put to Wind hound which was at Cawston Lodge at the time and curiously enough was Mr Merrys own horse Alice in 1857 foaled to Windhounds time and the produce was Thormanby one of the best and tough cst horses of modern times timesAt At the Doncaster sales of 1858 the yearling Thor ¬ manby was offered by auction but while most of the good judges of stock were present nobody would bid whereupon Mr Plummer became alarmed lest the colt might be thrown on his hands as his dam had been upon Mr Plummers brother years before Matthew Dawson the trainer was induced to look him over and after some talk about contingencies purchased him for 1750 for Mr Merry who after ¬ wards leased Alice from Mr Plummer with the stip ¬ ulation that Sweet Hawthorn her foal of 1858 by Sweetmeat should be returned to Mr Plummer at the end of her racing career Alices colt of 1859 by Wild Dayrell died a week after Its birth In I860 she missed to Windhound and died April 20 1851 at the Croft Stud Darlington from abscess of the udder from which she had long suffered and which had reduced her almost to a skeleton and the next year her son Thormanby came to the Croft Stud and held his court within sight of the grave of his famous mother motherOf Of all the great racehorses that carried the orange and black of Mr Merry Thormanby was the most renowned His campaign as a twoyear old was considered the most severe on record It had not been the custom to race the best twoyear olds severely but Mr Merry inaugurated a new de ¬ parture and while no owner of his day had more good ones they were usually overdone In their first year as in the case of Belladrum Sunshine Marks ¬ man etc Thormanby started fourteen times and won nine He began March 30 at Northampton and finished late in October winning the Biennial and the Egllnton at York the Mostyn at Chester the Bi ¬ ennial at Ascot the Levant at Goodwood the Gim crack the Prendergast and the Criterion CriterionAs As a threeyearold Thormanby did not start until the Derby It had a field of thirty starters includ ¬ ing The Wizard winner of the Two Thousand Horror Nutbourne Buccaneer Mainstone Man at Arms High Treason and the American colt Umpire Thormanby won with The Wizard and Horror placed Immediately after the race Thormanby developed a swollen gland was stopped In his work and it was all they could do to get him ready for the St Leger for which he failed to get a place St Albans win ¬ ning with High Treason and Horror placed For the Doncaster Cup he tried to concede seven pounds to Sabreur and was second For the Grand Duke Michael Stakes he was second to The Wizard while Tom Bowline beat him in a race over the Rowley Mile It was generally thought that he had bogun to feel the effects of his hard racing of the year before This was a mistake as his return to form the next season proved The glandular trouble and stoppage in his work was probably the reason as he was a colt that needed plenty of work and so slug ¬ gish that lie often needed a reminder of the spur in his races racesAs As a fouryearold Thormanby bad fully recovered his form His speed was tremendous and lie won the Claret Stakes defeating Umpire and Thunder ¬ bolt by thirty lengths For two following races he walkcdover nobody cared to chase him At As ¬ cot he set the seal to his greatness by performing that great after test of Derby winners winning the Ascot Gold Cup St Albans Parmesan Fairwater Royalicu Dulcibclla and Plumper comprised his field And thus the Derby and St Legcr winners of the year before were again pitted in battle but the yel ¬ low and black of Mr Merry prevailed for while be ran sluggish and Custance once had to wake him up with the spur Thorraanby won by two lengths Tipsters were plenty in those days and to their gift of prophecy many of them added a talent for rhyme one of them having given bis tip for the Cup race in the following effusion The Ailesbury party back their Saint SaintYet Yet loudly though they clack With no fed body will we join The yellow and the plack The hopeTo Wizards friends have lost all hope To sec his number up Twould make no doubt a pretty Joke A JokeA Saucercr for the Cup CupThe The Frenchman has BO poor a chance chanceThough Though he may surpass Scott To Jericho with Royalieu RoyalieuIn In lieu of Royal Ascot t tTheyre Theyre off an awful silence reigns reignsHushed Hushed is the very air I see the leading horses come comeAnd And Thormanby Is there The field Is quickly thinned but few fewHave Have now much wind to spare The pace is fast from end to end endFor For Thormanby is there thereFast Fast up the cords St Albans comes comesThe The Saint will win I swear The Lcger was a true run race raceBut But Thormanby is there thereGone Gone past St Albans like a shot Like lightning past the chair The telegraph is hoisted up And THORMANBY Is there thereFor For the Goodwood Stakes then a handicap Thor ¬ raanby was weighted 139 pounds Dulcibella and Optimist 125 pounds each Joskin 122 pounds Umpire 113 pounds Rupee 112 pounds Starkc 107 pounds Rupert the minimum 77 pounds or G2 pounds less than Thornianby He did not start and for the Goodwood Cup with 13C pounds he was fourth to Starke a sixyearold with 122 pounds Mr Merry then challenged for The Whip and named Thormauby It was not accepted and thus he re ¬ tired sound as champion of England as Stockwell had done six years before and stood in 1SG2 at the Croft Farm near Darlington Durham DurhamThormanbys Thormanbys fame as a sire hardly reached the eminence he had attained as a race horse but his career In the stud was highly creditable He sired Plaudit Sunshine Atlantic Charibert Croeus Hes ¬ ter Feronla Tomahawk Lady Coventry Lady Mor ¬ gan Odd Fellow Pathfinder Thurlngian Prince and Rouge Rose dam of Bend Or Of these Mr Merrys Sunshine was probably the best she in 18G5 winning nine out of ten races Atlantic won tho Two Thousand of 1874 and Charibert a post ¬ humous son of Thormauby by the way won the Two Thousand of 187J Hester won the One Thou ¬ sand of 1870 1870Thormanby Thormanby died in the spring of 1875 His end was similar to that of Leamington as he fell dead after covering his old mate Hurricane the dam of Atlantic the son which was destined to continue his line We lineWe recall two sons of Thormanby imported to America Glengarry and By the Sea The first Glengarry was from Carbine by Rifleman and was Imported as a weanling In 18G6 by R W Cameron being one of the four survivors of the thirtyfive head of thoroughbreds lost in the voyage of the Helvetia We remember Glengarry racing at Jerome Park in 18C9 and 1870 in the colors of William Constable He was a beautiful brown colt but he never recovered entirely from the voyage but in Tennessee he did very well in the stud as he sired Greenland aud Kiugman winner of the Kentucky Derby in ISJl By the Sea was Imported with his dam by the late Hon August Bclmont in 1SG8 and named after his estate at Newport We saw him run all his races A very bloodlike chestnut and a good race horse but be had the misfortune to be out in the year of Harry Basset and Monarchist and was sold at four to go to Peru where he swept all before him himIn In recent years we had another line of Pantaloon in the New Zealandbred horse Sir Modred but it was not the Thormanby line of Pantaloon Sir Modred was by Traducer son of The Libel he by Pantaloon While few of Sir Modreds were horses of the higher class they were about the sturdiest strain of campaigners we ever had Few were more speedy th his daughter Briar Sweet or his sons Dr Hasbrouck and Tournament but thus far his sons have not carried on his line lineTo To watch the ebb and flow of fashion iu blood is one of the most interesting studies of the student of brooding Eighty years ago Partisan was the rage but his line has failed of late Then came the era of Ernilius Tramp and Sultan followed by that of Melbourne Touchstone and Birdcatclier Then Stockwell and Newmfnstcr began to flourish and do so still But more recently Galopin brought the Blacklock line to the front with a Chifucy rush while Barcaldine restored Melbournes which had begun to languish In England Count Schombcrg has quite alone upheld Orlandos line hut here Eclipse and Rayon dOr have restored it while Colin in England may revive its prestige there Indeed the Whalebone line through Sir Hercules and Camel alone bavc through succeeding generations retained its original strength and even it has latterly bciflj compelled to divide empire with that of lihicklovxl Of the many sires which bavc flourished iu their time but whose lines have failed in the second and third generations might be named Beadsman During the late sixties this Derby winner became a great success through Sir Joseph Hawleys Blue Gown Pcro Gomez Rosicrucian The Palmer Morua and Green Sleeves but the line has dwindled to nothing Blair Athol was a success but his later generations have become conspicuously iucouspicuous iu the list of great performers No horse was so fashionable as Hermit from 1880 to 1888 but his line is fast disappearing And so it is of Lexington Glenelg and even Leamington in America that great trium ¬ virate which for a quarter of a century dominated the stud arc fast becoming memories memoriesBut But it is not safe to say that anyone of these lines will not revive and that history will not re ¬ peat itself as it did with Blacklock and Melbourne in England and Glcucoc and Orlando here He is a daring man or rather a reckless one who will venture to predict the failure of any line of racing blood that has once proved itself good Forty years ago an American who said the line of Lexington would fall and that of Bonnie Scotland would rise would have been laughed at as would an English ¬ man who predicted the coming fashion of Black lock And thus with Maiutenon and Le Sagittaire in France casting shadows before it would ap ¬ pear that even so profound a horseman as Mr With ers tread dangerous ground when he ridiculed a sire merely because he was of the male line of Pantaloon W S Vosburgh in Thoroughbred Rec ¬ ord
