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AMERICAN BLOODDEFENDED INENGfcAND In commenting on the fact of Colin and Americus being In the Knglish Stud Book though present conditions of inclusion would probably debar both a London scribe takes up the cudgels on behalf of Americanbred horses and says saysI I have repeatedly claimed that there cannot exist any sound reason to presume that want of stamina in the modern American race horse is due to causes different from those which have determined de ¬ generation of staying qualities in the Knglish thoroughbred The first English Derby winner Diomed made his greatest success at the stud whilst in America When mated with mares not traceable to a source in the English Stud Book His son Sir Archy established numerous lines two of which were represented by winners on the English turf To Timoleon the famous French horse Jongleur which won the French Oaks and Derby in 1S72 and subsequently the Cambridgeshire traces back Two of the most coveted English Cups Goodwood and Doncaster were won by Kilsallaghan a son 61 I5rown Prince by Lexington in 1S99 Sir Charles a grandson of Diomed was mated in 1811 with au American halfbred mare and produced Wagner the sire of Starke which won the Goodwood Cup iu 1801 These descendants of Diomed therefore with all the blanks in their pedigrees have proved su ¬ perior stayersThe stayers The case of Kings Courier also speaks volumes for the untenability of the idea of the predominance of the blood in tail female lineage for his fourth dam Maggie G is by Brown Dick which like her ¬ self traces back to a source outside the Knglish Stud Book In addition Kings Couriers graiidsire Spendthrift is impurely bred his dam Aerolite being by Lexington out of the halfbred mare Florine It so happened that Bruce Lowe when dealin with the breeding of phenomenal race horses alluded to six individual cases namely Gladiateur Domino Bendigo Ormonde Lexington and Foxhall In the pedigrees of three of these Domino Lexing ¬ ton and Foxhall by the halfbred King Alfonso blanks appear But whereas Gladiateur Bendigo and Ormonde all bred on orthodox Kiiglish lines were rather disappointing at the stud two of the American halfbreds Domino and Lexington wero conspicuous successes This tends to prove that the breeding qualification of the supposedimpure Ameri ¬ can blood cannot possibly have been less meritorious than those of the blood of the Kasteru sires Im ¬ ported to Kngland in the eighteenth century
