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THE TIDE OF FASHION IN BREEDING. 11 is curious how the tide of fashi ui in connection with thoroughbred stallions waxes and wanes. Com-naratirerj uadjr a few years a: there were braaAata wh.. wo.iid scarcely look at a st:.llion. far CJ.ainple. of the Date at Ihonuanhy. f. r although he himself wa- me of the hardi. Bt and A- t of on.- Derby winders, lii- famdy as Bar as this country was con-• ei ik d s Hi bi-jran to deelin, . Such of his best -, n as Cbarfhrrt twinoer af the Two Thaaaaaal liain -as in lsT.i. riaadit, Normanby and Thor-walsden did little at the stud. Another of his sous At la nth-, on which 1re.I Archer won his first eianaic race, the Two Tnomaad Gaiaeaa of 1S74. waa exiled to Kr.i!:ee. Ihaaka 10 Atlantic and his .le-eeiidants. tin family there nourished mightily. The purchase by Mr. A. E. Kennedy of Koi Ilerode. a great-grand*Hi of Tlionnanby. sneedilv brought the lioe to the fore on.e bajaJn in this country , , .,;,! .,f »i:c marvellous pvrlernianoes of T! e Tetrarch. and the successes of a number of others of the Bet of his sin . Thorinanby was himself a deeeeadaat of Herod, and it is. indeed, satis-factorr that the Ilcr-xi line is in ■ fair way to rel il ilitatoii. for without this blood in our brood-mares ilcterforation would before Ion? have set in. owin» to tie- too great preponderance of Eclipse. There i« • ourse. the third great line, that of M-iiehcni. wbicb, like that of Her -d. is of 11 fomi-liin ■ character, but it is doubtful if that alone would serve to eounteract the evils likely to arise from to-- mi"h inbreeding to ItUckleeh and Wliale-j.oi e tic two Chief branelH-s of the Kelii.se family. which, lite Aarons rod. threatened to swallow in, all rhral line-. . ..... Mlhou-h tie Tlionnanby line is all right ag.-un •iti.l likely to nourish, there are other families in. 1 did big thing* in the past now in even more •nloiis cane, inclusive not only .f Herod blood. •I a.so offshoots of Ecllp.sc. The Sheet Anchor liiH for ii-tinec. whi.li in the BftJea and sixties ,.,-.. i,„, ..! the Derby winners Readstnan and Bine ,-, .„ The leger winner. Iero Come/., and such ...her celebrities as Kosi.ru.iaii. The l-almer Green recent days good horses si,,.,,. ,.,,- and in more i, .-iwv.l Tiltacapr. Tvrant and Whlttter. From last volume of 1 he "Ilegister or Tlioroughbred S allions- it would appear that neither Telescope , Whitier has left any stallions behhai. and tlwv.l ami ISr»nt are but slenderly represented, bv 1halaris. a useful performer in Ins ■•itter tie .i,v S the coors of I...rd Ilarewood. and Tvr.-inny II Xew there is another Ihabiris in Lord Derbys ! Bromus «.dt. The original llialari-f , .eiiil-. n-me owners tdace. 1 1. A re wood l-«rk. but U -i s -, • ;..,-r, h "fired s winner in bh. fir-r season at the lie has achieved nothing in the Vut tea sr that there is no likelihood of e infusion v-irslo ;.,: J, :.„••;„ ,t. time t . come from the lupltcatlon . if-lowm easilv and .pil-Mr realiy Itigh-cIiiKs horses . .t. iv breeders, oven though tier may "Tf.o, dished g, -at things l-.th on the turf forcibly borne m on me a . «tnd was 1 ,i-V. . SL iL;« when I baViTu to glance a. the .r foals of 1014 given in the •■MU-pb-nient I "3 l previously had oe.-asion to 1 thai vear i ■ 1, n .,t . reread winner af new »r the Merest ,„,Vi Vus.ria-llungny the St. Mete. Prfar one mile and a fnrlongl v. a-... • sovereigns, ,i]u ,-s Driiss The .-■!! in question is the bj Itisit ■I,s . that Klsiag old Ktstco. ami , lM.iM;r " ;,„;•! . ihre«..vear " ..,.,." ... andA.... i.. tlo en 11 tn a .011111. ...,,,,,1,. 01 ,,t ve.ns of course, vearrngs. let he 1 »... r,...t nMI . II"-». no.v " 11 V two ....._ ,.,,» I.,- l.is sirr. i»est horses ever got ■ uis sit . of Hh- - one Mioriiss nearly the best of his year, ran-I..!* and was seT-ond ! to Srd Fatrkk for the Derby, second 1 to Sceptre in the I.eger. an.l fourth in the Two Thnaeaal to Beeatre, Pisto! and AM Patrick. That was the only time he failed to finish in the first three, and he won seven of his remaining twelve raeea, laeteatra of the Jockey club stakes, heathen; Aid Patrick. Cheers and otliers. To anam extent the neglect of Itising Class by bjuaii is ex.-.isablc. for in these strenuous days a sire has to be kept constantly in the limelight, and Lad* McCalmonts horse, although his stock have done big tbiigs on the Continent, has had com-parativelv few winners here. His case may not im.ptlv be likened t- that of Caleazzo. which in similar fashion was sent abroad to do stud duty lirst in France and subsequently to Italy, siring greai winners in both countries. In his early days at Ike stud in the same way Bising Glass was leaned to France for three seasons, and there his st.M-k from HH to 101.! won over a hundred races worth iin.vards of 1C4M pwnds. In li0i and UM he was hark in England, siring a number of winners, and h" was then sent to Austria for two seasons where he got good winners, including tiie above -mentioned St. Stefans Prize winner, while ,.th,.r. ,,f his get have iron in Belgium. Ger-""•iv B limina South Africa and P.razil. Bv Pinul.iss ,„lt of Ilaut.sse. by Ar.-hidiic out of Hantear be traces back to the dam of Tliormaiilo-in his f, male line and is therefore a member of I be .. 4 family Hie breeding could not lie im-troved nnon and it will In- indeed surprising if Irish btujUia allow him to languish next year. His fe . this vear was the bagatelle of nine guineas, less than a tenth of that of Isinglass other good son John o Gaunt, which, likewise, ran second for the Derby. — "Vigilant" in Loudon Stiortsiiian.
