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SOME FASHIONABLE ENGLISH SIRES. Snndridge and Rock Sand are stud companions in France, the one at 400 guineas and the other at T0 guineas, huge covering tees it must be admitted, but, nevertheless, Iwth .full for next year, while, in addition, all nominations to the last-named have been booked for two years further ahead. As regards Snndridge, which in reality was a first-class sprinter, he has left behind two worthy successors in Sunstar, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, Newmarket Stakes and Derby, in the last of which he broke down and prematurely terminated a brilliant racing career, and Sunder, a magnificent horse of tremendous size and power, whose forte, like that of his sire, was speed rather than stamina. Jest also claims paternity from the handsome sou of Amphion and Sierra, and as the winner of both the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks should prove a splendid acquisition to J. B. Joels already magnificent collection of broodmares at Childwickbury, whither she has retired, presumably in foal to Le Blizon, and perhaps as well for the various owners concerned in the coming St. Leger that she cannot join issue. The daughter of Absurdity netted 0,750 by the two victories above referred to. and not only is the largest individual winner of the season, but by far the most liberal contributor towards her sires aggregate of 01,215 resulting from twenty-one races won by fourteen of his sons and daughters in England. Last year Snndridge was responsible for twelve winners of eighteen races, but the total fell short of ten thousand, so that he has more than doubled the figures thus far this season, and will doubtless materially increase them before the end. Sun Yat lias done him good service this year by winning three times, and other useful horses to his credit may be named in White Magic, Sundawn, Golden Sun, Absurd and White Star, of which the three-year-old first named unfortunately went amiss, coughing just when he appeared to be running into the form expected of him. From the same cause most of J. B. Joels two-year-olds are amiss, hut already sutDcient has been seen of Parhelion and Dolly Varden to stamp them useful, and the same may be said of Longtown, the Ironie II. colt, Sunny Laud, and Taveta. Rock Sand boasts no more than four winners, which collectively have won half a dozen races of the value of 55,835, but of these Tracery stands out conspicuously the best, besides being by many sound judges considered a better-class horse being a good big un by comparison with a good little un than his sire, the grand treble event of Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and Oaks notwithstanding. Until he has had another go at Prince Palatine Tracery will, by a large proportion of those who saw the race, be thought to have been tragically robbed of the Ascot Gold Cup by the somersault which resulted from lits collision with a maniac, when leading some five furlongs from home, and it may actually have been so, for sure it is that he was in front and going like a lion at the time. All the same, neither Whalley nor ONeill has eyes at the back of his head, and consequently could not know how Saxby and the Prince were faring behind them. The rider will tell that the horse was going comfortably in his hands, but was seriously interfered with by the scrimmage which occurred after the fall, and had not his stud prospects been of more importance, to say nothing of visions of a sensa-tlnal sale, his veteran owner, Mr. Pilkington. considering the cleverness with which Prince Palatine by his own instinct avoided a fall by jumpng the prostrate horse, might possibly have been tempted to try the son of Persimmon between the iiags I say possibly. The moral is that Prince Palatine went on and accomplished his task handsomely, and it remains to be seen what will happen when next he joins issue with Tracery. All that can be hoped is that each will be at his best when stripped for the Jockey Club Stakes at the Newmarket First October meeting. It will be a case of Greek meeting Greek, and the tug-of-war will be watched probably with keener general interest and excitement than any race of the season. The Goodwood Cup fiasco counts for little, in my opinion, and has been satisfactorily accounted for. Princo Palatine has since been placed under the charge of Charles Morton, who trains for his plucky purchaser, Mr. J. B. Joel, and. apparently none the worse, is reported to have done well since his change of quarters, but that lie is a horse of curious temperament is probable, and in that respect he resembles many of the progeny of his defunct sire. Persimmon. None the less. Prince Palatine is undoubtedly the best of his male descendants, and being, in fact, a bigger horse than appears at first sight to the onlooker, I have no doubt whatever that he will develop into a magnificent specimen of the thoroughbred stallion. Rock Sand, I may add, lias a couple- of useful thrce-year-olds to represent him in Sands of Time and High Rock, and had, I believe, proved a great success in America before he went to France. The death of Desmond at the comparatively early age of seventeen occurred with startling suddenness, as he was found dead in his box. Happening when the horse was at the zenith of his-success as a sire, for although he had previously no classic winners to his credit, he was the father of Cragauour and boveur, which passed the post head and head at the head of the Held for the Derby, the loss was a great one for Lord Dunraven. with which the son of St. Simon and LAbhesse de Jouarre was always a great favorite, and his strong belief in the blood is evidenced bv his lordship purchasing his son, Lomond, to succeed him at the Fort Union Stud. Adare County, Limerick. Twenty-eight races have tliis vear been won by fifteen of Desmonds progeny, showing the fine aggregate of ?120,0S0, as contrasted with a full record of twenty thousand for last season. No need here to refer to Ahoyeur and Craganour, except to the one as the luckiest horse that ever won the Blue Riband, and to the other as having, in sensational circumstances, been sold for the extraordinary sum of .?1."0.000 to go to the Argentine. A smart three-year-old is undoubtely another son. Fairy King, to wit though a big mistake would seem to have been made" in connection with his trial for the Two Thousand Guineas, in the race for which he must have disappointed the Treadwell House people grievously, hut hardly more so than Lomond has doue since lie stood at the top of his juvenile class. Desmond has left behind him three two-year-olds that can hardly fail to earn high distinction. Allusion is made to Hapsburg, out of Altesse; Glorvina, out of Veneration II.. and Stornoway, out of Sistcrlike, all of which made a conspicuous entry into public life as yearlings. Of the pair bred at Sledmere the first-named was sold for :i,200 guineas to Sir Ernest Cassel. while the sister to Craganour took the fancy of Lord Dcrbv at but two hundred less. Stornoway was bredhy Maj. F. II. Wise, and at ",000 guineas to E. Huiton was the top-priced youngster of the season. High as are there figures, they have been fully justified by results, and each of the three horses would now realize sums far in excess of thoso above recorded if their several fortunate owners cared to sell. Thus Hapsburc has won all his three engagements, uamelv, the New Stakes at Ascot, the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Santlown Park and the Great Lancashire Breeders Produce Plate at Liverpool, in a fashion fully warranting the opinion that he is a two-year-old of the highest class; anil Glorvina is also undefeated, having run clear away with the Mersey Stakes at Aintree and a Maiden Plate at Kempton Park in such splendid style that it is easily conceivable she Is the best of her age and sex. with a great future before her. Both would, 1 think, beat Stornoway, although he is a good colt and has now won three of five engagements. At his last essay, however, when odds of 5 to 4 were laid on him for the Grand Criterium at Ostend, he was unplaced to Cornimont Cauge, and Guerroyante, but was giving weight away all round, and may, moreover, have been somewhat upset by the sea voyage. Although credited witli two winners only the French-bred Roi Ilerode, by Le Samaritain out of Roxelane, by War Danes, stands well up in the list of winning sires with 2,003, all of which, witli the exception of the century won by the bay colt out of Miss Donovan, goes to swell Dermot Mc-Calinonts account through the instrumentality of The Tetrarch, a gray colt out of Vahren that has won five races, namely, a Maiden Plate at Newmarket in April, the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom, the Coventry Stakes at Ascot, the National Breeders Produce Stakes at Sandown Parle, and the Rous Memorial Stakes, no has yet to taste the bitterness of defeat, and it seems highly probable that the same remark will apply when his two-year-old career is closed and he retires Into winter quarters a red-hot favorite for next years Derby. Seldom hr s been seen a more brilliant youngster than this con spicuously marked colt, whose speed is nothing short of phenomenal, and whose- size, power and quality suggest that there is plenty of scope for furlher improvement. To have sired such a tiycr in his first season at the stud is a tremendous advertisement for Roi Ilerode. which is the property of Mr. Kennedy, and stands at the StralTan Station Stud In Ireland. As a yearling lie so took the fancy of II. S. Persse that he purchased him on his own account for 1,300 guineas, the last bid in opposition having been on behalf of L. de Rothschild, who dearly loves to have a gray horse in the Palace House stable, and it will be remembered purchased under that influence Bass Rock, and passed him on as a gift to Mr. Leopold. It would have lieen well for "Atty" if he had stuck to his bargain, for The Tetrarch has turned out such a smasher that he is worth more than as many thousands than he cost hundred guineas, but it is some consolation to think that in turning him over to that keenest and best of young sportsmen, his pririciiial patron, Dermot McCalmont, he still has him to train for his en gageinents. which include the Derby of next year; 1913.sh,000 to ,000 was taken and offered about the colt August 21. We may see The Tetrarch careering in front again at Derby, where an easy task awaits his preparatory to tackling Hapsburg and other smart winners in the Champagne Stakes at Don-caster. Of other successful sires most prominent are William the Third, by St. Simon out of Gravity, by Wisdom, witli thirteen winners: Santoi. by Queens Birthday out of Merry Wife, by Merry Hampton, with nineteen; Robert le Diablo, by Ayrshire out of Rose Bay. by Melton, witli nine; Pic-ton, by Orvieto out of Hecuba, by Isonomy. with six, Including Light Brigade: Tredpnnis, -by Kendal out of St. Marguerite, by Hermit, with eleven; St. Frusquin, by St. Simon out of Isabel, by Plebeian, with a dozen; Marcovil, by Marco out of Lady Villi-kins, by Hagioscope, with nine; John o Gaunt, by Isinglass out of La Fleche, by St. Simon, witli thirteen; Chaucer, by St. Simon out of Canterbury Pilgrim, by Tristam, with eight; Symington, by Ayrshire out of Siphonia, by St. Simon, witli twelve, and Persimmon dead, by St. Simon out or Per-dita II., by Hampton, with three, including Princo Palatine. Vigilant In London Sportsman.
