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FAMILY WITH WHICH ST SIMON FAILED The classification of the most successful sires of earlier generations and the present elucidates tho blghly interesting fact that apart from the three fundamental sires Eclipse llcrod and Match em there are others which rightly deserve the same characterization for though not successful in found ¬ ing male lines of their own their direct Influence upon the building up of female lines was of not less elementary nature But this purticula class of sires the greatest representatives ofNvhicb were perhaps Waxy Macaroni Hermit ml Or ¬ lando was chief composed of classic winnCrh Of course there are others like Rubens for stance which gained little distinction on the turf but their success can easily he accounted for by other causes causesRubens Rubens was of that famous nameless mare by Alexander every one of whose produce by the Her ¬ od descendant Buzzard proved a conspicuous success at the stud above all Rul ciis two brothers Castrel and Sellm which founded two of the strongest Her ¬ od lines The three brothers were hot firstrate performers but the coincidence of their successes at tlie stud amply proved a particular stoutness of their blood which is also illustrated by the fact that their sister Bronze won the Oaks and founded that excellent line of the No 2 family to which tho successes of Roscdrop and Tlie Tctrarch have added fresh glamour The salient point hi that in this particular class of sires hardly an in ¬ dividual may be found which provided he did not succeed himself on the turf had the value of his blood not demonstrated by the racing records of a lirother or sister or a close reliitive There were of course horses at all times which for some reason or another could not be brought up to the pitch of a classic winner or were not entered for these important races but none of those succeeded at the stud which did not belong to a bighly pros ¬ perous male line Only race horses of an approved class or sires of approved breeding succeeded in raising female lines to a higher standard of per ¬ fection The great number of lesa fortunate Individ ¬ uals accomplished nothing of this sort and in blocd stock breeding likewise the maxim has proved true that a standstill leads to retrogression Tills could never bave occurred If there were such a thing as a permanent efficiency and dominance of the blood in tail female linea This argument hardly permits of any contradiction and will be conclusively substantiated by my new charts show ¬ ing the development and the building up of the suc ¬ cessful female lines by the help of a dominant sire influence influenceAnother Another conspicuous feature which I have added in my new work is a demonstration of remarkably successful liicks lictwcen certain male anil fe ¬ male lines while an cxhihtion of other evidence throws some light on failures in mutual adapta ¬ tion There is for instance the most curious case of an absolutely abortive result of St Simons alliances with marcs of tlie No 1 family Though there are about 120 mares by St Simon registered in the General Stud Book only one of tie No 1 family produced a winner of one of the above fifty races This is Svelte the dam of the Oaks win ¬ ner Cherimoya The only other successful in ¬ dividual of the No 1 sired by St Simon is Chaucer a son of Canterbury Pilgrim But lie was cer ¬ tainly not a great race horse His sister Wife of Bath which ran seven times unplaced ns n two nnd threeyearold so fnr has only produced one moderate winner in tlie filly Olalla by Min stead now at the Warren Tower Stud StudIt It may be found difficult to explain why St Simon should have ro consistently failed to the numerous No 1 mares with which he was mated Dut there it is And it may be wise to take Oils hint all the more because it tends ti offer fresh evidence in support of my view that certain fashionable lines of the No 1 family above all those of Ellen Home have lost their stoutness nnd vitality under the regime of Bruce Lnwe Curiously enough some years before Bruce Lowe appeared in tlie limelight attempts of inbreeding to the now fashionable blood of the No 1 have been made For instance two breeders returned to the Two Thousand Guineas winner Paradox tho blood of Paraffin and Rouge Rose The issue of these experiments were Unicorn out of Wheat shear a daughter of Chcvisauncc which win the Stewards Cup and Red Ensign out of Red Rag a daughter of Rouge Rose winner of the Prince of Wales Stakes I do not think these two horses were ever heard of again after the termination of their racing career I would not go so far as to call this inbreeding incestuous but I shall always predict failure of such methods as are em ¬ ployed nt those studs which retain the best f the Footliglit and Illuminate blood ami iicrsistpntly in1 breed to it irrespective of many failures I do not wish to sec this critic on inbreeding ap ¬ plied In any general fashion 1 am a believer in this method but I would never attempt it unless I could back it up by strong outside blood which includes that of the successful Herod lines Bouiauger in London Sporting Life
