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REGRETS PEDIGREE SHOWS INTERMINGLING OF THE CHOICEST CHOICESTBLOOD BLOOD IMPORTED INTO AMERICA By DR M M LEACH If precedent is to be set aside this year and tlie Kentucky Derby won by a memberof the gentler sex 1 anticipate tlie success pfMr HvP Whitneys chestnut daughter of Broomstick Regret Good judges of racing form who witnessed Regrets Saratoga performances last year assure me that Regret stood out as the best twoyearold of 1914 Anyway Mr Whitneys filly soundly trounced the Butler stable reliance IVbbles and exhibited such dazzling speed that it would be foolish to oppose her Regret too is bred on tii orthodox Eclipse to Herodplan of mating However Jiliies are kittle cattle and frequently disappoint iu their threeyearold form Here Is Regrets pedigree and oiie of absorbing interest it is Bramblp q f Bon Scotland 10 lago 11 E rBraBrowni875M rBraBrowni875MI ScotlandrBraBrowni875M Queen Mary H HJ B BrUBUMW J I Ivy Leaf LeafI J Australian 11M C Bay 1893 Bay Flower II I Reform 14 j Lcamington 14 B Roseville J JBay Stolen Kisses M Broomstick 1C Bay 1SSS j Anla Alarm Bay 1901 Elastic J Galoin Halliard 13 Duchess y tElf I Mavis j Macaroni 14 H Chest 1S93 Merlette E Bcid Or Doiicaster ISylvabelle J JChest Rouge Rose Chest 1887 J St Edltha X Kingley Vale 8 H Lady Alice E Hflnovdr Hindoo 24 5 Virgil 20 H I niMtisJa 1 Horence II I Hamburg 23 Bourbon Belle Von Scotland10 E iBrown 1895V j J Klla D H I i Fellowcraft I Australi Australian J LnlngM W I T Lady Reel 1 Atronte Chest 1905 Bny 1886 j Enquirer C Llzzl J Longfellow Leamington j v M M TO W Xantura L 887 7 Daisy E V Geneva War Dance Gh t 1895 La Gitana War DanCC W Chest 1881 Balct e 25 E imported Mt first glance it will be noticed that Regret boasts no family number rieitherdoes her grandslre Ben imvJoi uml K IeJ sire of her Sr nddam Daisy F is also a raemlwr of the nonfigure brigade All of them airu mcml rs of the Maria West family the only American while fnn round i in the family really worth to be Stud Book and instead of dishonoring members of this family by appending the usual note i iiave substituted the initials MW and In future whenever occasion occurs shall adhere to this plan ilies hi the world l ° SLU t ° CU tuat tuuJ urc dcalS with one of the greatest winnerproducing fam famBroomstick Broomstick Regrets sire was as natty 1 little race horse as one could wish to sec and is a beauti inii bred bay son of Ben Brush tins bulwark of the Bonnie Scotland line and lm orted Elf daughter of Iaimoutli liiiiard Avhose daughters are wonderfully productive of many good winners Well they may be for Lord s Two Thousand Guineas winner of 1883 was by Galopln out of Mavis by Macaroni and Galopins dam t lying Duchess was by Flying Dutchman a combination of great broodmare blood hard to beat hylvabelle Broomsticks granddam is a daughter of the Derby winner Bend Or which got Orna ¬ ment Sceptres dam I airy Gold dam of Fair Play Anomaly Supermans dam Debacle Ortegal etc byivabelle foaled many a good winner and Is half sister to St Cation an out and outer as a race horse aud sire of the champion Meddler St Edltha Sylvabelles dam was by Kingley Vale which traced bv ay or jNntbourile Ihe Xabob Tlie Nob and Glaucus to Herod and the iwdigree soon runs on down to the famous Agnes by Clarion son of Glencoes sire Sultan This Is the allconquering Xo 10 famllv from which come such equine celebrities as Ormonde Sceptre and last years champion threeyearold theFrench land red Sardanapale All this wealth of good blood found in Elfs pedigree is well backed up by Bonnie Scot ¬ Leamington Yorkshire Eclipse and Australian five of tlie greatest horses ever imported to this country found in Ben Brushs pedigree Xo wonder then that Broomstick has become such t pronounced success as a sire and though a Irltie undersized he is molded on almost perfect lines A horse of perfect symmetry Broomstick turns out horses of heroic proportions such as Meridian and Cockspur The CockspurThe more I think of it the more I regret Broomsticks departure from Kentuckv for it was when standing in the Blue Grass that Broomstick got Meridian Buckhorn Whisk Broom Winning Witch and buieper II winner of the Two Thousand Guineas I sincerely wish Broomsticks sporting owner Mr H I Whitney might be persuaded to return the horse to Kentucky away from the sand and tormenting inosquitos of Xcw Jersey Jersey Lightning dam of Regret is a chestnut daughter of the brown horse Hamburg and evidently derives her coloring from her grandsire Hanover Hamburg made splendid a reputation for himself as a stalion when standing for service at the La Bolle Stud out on the old Frankfort pike but the Hands and other annoyances of New Jersey appear to have settled him and his name no longer appears high up on the winning stallion list Hamburgs dam Lady Reel is by tlie Matchem horse Fellowcraft brother to Speml tlitift and son of imported Australian a combination of blood certain as anything to result in tlie produc ¬ tion of good broodmares The pedigree of Regret is a genuine Derby one all tlie way through Her grand Im1 Vllsy r is a laugbtcr of Riley which won tin Kentucky classic and is out of Modesty the one liily wbicli ever won the American Derby in the history of tlie race Rlley is a son of that splendid stav iiis race horse Longfellow and was out of Geneva by Lexingtons best win War Dance whose dam was Reel the peerless gray daughter of imported Glencoe Regrets pedigree discloses besides her of th Maria West line that In her back coupling up crosses slit strains seven times to Lexington nine times to Oiln ew and twice to Australian In ¬ her first thirtytwo quarterlies Repret runs seventeen limes to Herod something most unusual in a modern day pedigree and this wealth of Herod bloml is strongly supported bv the Matcfccm blond of Australian and Knight of Kars sire of Stolen Kisses dam of Reform The Aus tralian strain I admirably returned by Followcraft to the Australian of Ivy Leaf Brambles dam Xiekiii ¬ the Australian line is good but nicking the Bonnie Scotland Is belter Bonnie Scotland Is the crandsiru Ben HanoverI Brush and also the sire of Bourlwii Belle diun of Hanover o I do not know when I dissected a more interesting pedigree than that furnished by Regret which Is the result of an intermingling of the blood of the best horses ever imported into the United States Rerets racing career ended her value for the paddoek is great indeed and a stud colt from her br some fashiona ¬ blybred English horse should not find a Melbourne Cup a Grand Prix or even an Epsom Dirby beyond his hisI I am sure I wisli Regrets owner every luck in tlie world and if the Kentucky Derby this vcar Is to be captured by one of the invaders froiutlm east I am of tlie opinion that brave little Broomsticks daughter fit and well on tlie day of the race will be the one to turn the trick chestnut
