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t — * HAMBURGS CAREER IN THE STUD AND HIS SIGNAL SUCCESS AS A SIRE OF BROODMARES OF NOTE By Dr. M. M. LEACH a* ■ — .1. The news of the passing of Hamburg came more or less as a shock to me. It seems ouiy such a short while ago. sin. e the horse won the Brighton fnp and was retired by his owner, the late Marcus Daly, to his ltitter Hoot farm in Montana. Hamburg, however, was not destined to have any protracted stay in his new-found home, Mr. Dalys death necessitating a dispersal of the Bitter Root Stud early in the year V.ml. Hamburg was, of eaaraa, neajaared by Ike Ban. V. f. Whitney and br night to Kentucky lo stand for service at the La Uelle Stud and it was when located at La P.cile that Hamburg Beared I, is greatest success as a sire. Only the olher day. realizing the rapidity of advancing years. I was writing something in an endeavor to indue.- Mr. Whitney to permit Hamburg to make one more aeasan in the Blue Jrass before the inevitable end, and now it is to.» late. Hamburgs Montana efforts wore crowned with success, lor it was at Bitter Boot that he got Hamburg Belle, a winner of the Futurity, and Biturica. subsequently the dam of Veil and Mask-ette. ■ Futurity winner and a winner of 1,115 in tirst moneys aloue in her two-year-old days. Ltonidas. MJaaaaa, Golden Drop. Interock, Velos and Inflexible were al-o got in Montana. However. Hamburgs sin .-ess as a stallion, when standing for service at La Belle, was far ahead of any oilier BCrlad of his stud career. Artful, the heroine of the Futurity at 1!*4. was a product of Hamburgs lirst season in Kentucky, as were Dandelion, a tr!ed campaigner and "inner ot .*24.0o in 1:XM . H2.SM in l.x.T and sT.r.io in llXis; Kose of Dawn. Dreamer. Princess Rupert and that good though ill-starred tilly Bumble Bee. The following year Hamburg sired Juggler, another tried and true campaigner, and that grand ra«-e heme Burgomaster. The foil,. wing year was. accrdiug to the Whitney plan, a light one for Hamburg, but in MM he got Jersey Lightning. Baby Wolf, winner of 1,998 as a turec-year-old, and S5.1SO a year later. Frizette, a high-class tw..-year-oiil. was also U-gotten hi- year, as was Adriana. now the .lain of foipiette and felandria. both g Hid winners tlrs year. Then came the Wbilinv di.-porsal sale, held on the evenings of October Hl-ll. HUH. umier the aus-pces of Urn Fa-.g-Ti|i.oi, ... i.1 Madison Suuare Garden. Well 1 remember the sale. A thoroughly representative gathering of owners, breeders, trainers and racing enthusiasts generally, tanked by a large ,oncoar-e of others out to see the show, greeted th.- prince ..f auctioneers. William Fasten, wuen ho opened proceedings by offering for sale the illustrious subject of this notice. Hamburg, what of hiuiV A magnificent lype of a thoroughbred horse, a brown, having two white shanks behind, a broad white strip running down his handsome, intelligent face, of commanding appearance, full muscled and of great power, whose racing record an.l stud prowess induced the younger Mr. Whitney to bid l»,000 for him. Cheap enough as times wer • then, if only his new owner had elected to return the horse to Kentucky. As 1 predicted at the time. Hamburgs New Jersey stud record does not .by any means come up to his Kentiu-ky efforls. Hamburgs name, now for some years past, has not keen heralded as that of the champion sire. Barrow, winner of the Middle Park Plate at Newinarket. defeating :-uch flyers as Seaforth and Iietri. is about the best of Hamburgs New Jersey oft spring, and Borrow is not done with yet. having run Bat a winning score of over fMMWl this year. Mr. Whitney was particularly happy in some of his other purchases at the great sale. s.-curing among others. Onlay F.. ■ ken carrying Jersey Lightning, dam of Thunderer and Regret and. incidentally . it may 1m- mentioned, that Hamburgs daughter stands out by herself as the cliainpio:i broodmare of the rear. Secret and Thunderer are both nnbentrn. tin fanner having won two races worth ,9tand and Thunderer, which so recently scored a memorable triumph in the richest sweepstakes of the year, the Futurity, has won three races off the reel worth 7.38$. Barncgat. another of Jersey Lightnings IMS winners, has taken two races worth Kl/JOO. In all. tfce daughter of Hamburg has produced this year three winners of seven races whose value totals up $::i.ns5. a record nmipproach-ed by any other mare. Hamburgs success as a broodmare sire falls little akart of tkat of his sire. Hanover. I made prediction to |kat effect at the time of the sale. Hamburg, nf course, in tail male is a Herod aud his dam. Lady Reel, is a daughter of the Matcliem horse. Fellowciaf t. Verily, the good that horses d: lives after them. Seventeen daughters of Hamburg have produced this year twenty-two winners of forty-six races worth 0.0X0. Adriana is the dam of OaajBetta and Felandria; Hammerless, dam of Recoil: Qnecn of Hearts has Regina: Artful, nana Slick. However. 1 have always had my doubts concerning the ability of Hamburg t: perpetuate the Glem-oe line in tail male. Borrow, niores the pity, is a gelding. Burgomaster stood last year in charge of John Morris at the Bosque Bonita Stud, but was BBt, I understand, accented any great amount of patronage. However, it remains lo tie seen what Burgomasters Kentucky progeny amount to. I cannot vay that I am enamored of the Biley cross which appear in Burgomasters pedigree. This Riley strain works out well enough in the broodmare line, but is undesirable in the make-up of a stallion. I mist Mr. Whitney has some really well-bred youngsters coining on by Hamburg to perpetuate this famous Glencoe line. As matters now stand ibis line seems to stand in imminent danger of being snuffed out altogether. Once before nas this line keen threatened with extinction. oaved only through tile activities of Virgil and, had it not been for Virgil, there would have been no Hindoo, an Hanover and no Hamburg. This is the fainoes one horse GleneOe sequence and who would hav thought some years ago when Hanover was in the very zenith of his fame, that there was anv danger af extinction. Hamburg, too, seemed to have rirmly established for himself a reputation as a sire, but since Hanovers death and Hamburgs exile to New Jersey, the whole structure has collapsed and, now that Hamburg is dead, what can be done to save the Glencoe line from the fate of Di. niied. Lexkarten and Leamington? IT, in my p. lint of view there is no industry under the sun in which so much is left to chance as lu the industry of breeding thoroughbred horses, fom-iiara-ively few of our lending breeders have any-real knowledge of iiedigrees or c.-ire to make any exhaustive study of Uead lines. Few can offer auy sound or logical reasons for the why aud wherefore of the success of certain combinations. Certain of our breeders of both the past aud present denv ti outside breeders the privilege of their stallions. Hamburgs owner. Mr. Whitney, was, however, not one of these and advertised his horses to stand for public service, as any rigbt-thiiiking breeder should. Few breeders patronize outside stallioic:. being content to rub along with what they themselves have. All of this does not make for the general welfare of the thoroughbred horse and. if the Glencoe line is to lie saved to the TJn5teil States, ODe or more stallions of Hanover descent must be immediately located in Kentucky, their services available for all approved mares. Possibly some may think I am unduly perturbed over the threatened loss of the Glencoe line. I tell you the history of the house of Glencoe forms one ..f the brightest pages in the history of the American thoroughbred horse. Apparently American breeders have no national pride. In no country, other thin this, has the Glencoe line lived and flotiri.-hed. Hanover compelled even the English, who take their pleasures sadly and absorb things slowlv. t i sit up and take notice. Orby, winner of the Derby, was out of Rhoda B. by Hanover, as was his half-sister Rhodora, winner of he One Thousand Guineas. Magnolia, ancestress of Iroquois, winner of the Derby and St. Leger, was bv Glen- oe. Crania is the granddam of Mr. Duryeas Detkjr w inner Durbar II.. which also traces in the maternal line to Julia, by Glencoe. Broomstick, sire of the Two Thousand Guineas winner. Sweeper 1L. has Glencoe hb-nd to recommend liiui. Foxhall. hero of a Oeenerwltch — Cambridgeshire double, had for his third dam Mollie Jackson, by Gleneoes best son Vandal. Domino, sire of Disguise and the Oaks winner Cap and Bells, is full of Glencoe blood. Sr Martin is out of Hanovers daughter Lady Sterling. Borrow, winer of the Middle Park Plate, is. of course, by Hamburg. S.» runs the story of the Glenc ie line abroad, and surely it is high time mme concerted effort was made, on the part of our breeders, to save this wonderful line from total eclipse. G.iod bye Hamburg. Yours was a race well run. Possibly the last of the Glencocs. Seldom do we see a lielter race horse, and seldom do we come across one capable of turning out race horses with the precison that marked your efforts in Kentucky.
