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] » I i . I ; i i i i ; • i i i i I ■■ , * + ] ANCESTRY OF A HORSE WHICH MAY CARRY ON THE MALE LINE OF GLENCOE " By Ds. M. M. LEACH +, *. I have it on the very best of authority that next year will find Mr. George M. Hendrie"s good horse, Great Britain, located for stud service in Kentucky. This must come as a welcome piece of news to the breeders of the Blue Grass, for not only arc we short on imported stallions, but we are also short on stallions of Hanover descent as well. Great Britain is just tl.e sort of horse to succeed as a stallion. He could run both fast and far, winning over the I.atonia course his mile in l::i7%. and scoring victories in the one and three-quarter miles Montreal Cup. 120 i«iunds up: the Toronto Cup, two and one quarter miles, 120 pounds in the saddle, and was first home in the Louisville Cup. two miles, under the same impost. I myself was privileged to see v liiin win the race with consummate case, which wound up a more than usually successful racing career for r ;.r good a weight-carrying, stout-hearted horse as we have seen out for a numlior of years past. Great Britain is a fine set up. sturdy sort, big bodied on short legs, a splendid doer and possessed of a j a most perfect disiosition and must make up into a handsome, powerful stallion, which will be certain to . improve his own sterling race horse qualities on his offspring. The chestnut coat is of course an inherit- ance from Glencoe. which of itself augurs well for the success of Great Britain in his now role. j A glance at the appended pedigree discloses the fact that Great Britain is a double Herod, both his t sire. The Commoner, and his dam. Touch Not. strain to Glencoe iu the male line. No less thau seventeen times, iu his first thirty-two quarterings, does Mr. Hendries horse strain to Herod, once to Matchem and | consequently only fourteen times to Eclipse. I will venture to state that there is not another stallion in l the country bred like liim and 1 have tabulated enough of their pedigrees to know. i Great Britains sire, The Commoner, was quite high class as a race horse and met with good success in after life as a sire and was full brother to Khoda I... which foaled for Mr. Uichard Croker his Derby i winner, Orby. and his One Thousand Guineas winner. Bhodora. Bhodora unfortunately was torpedoed | without warning when competing for the Oaks, otherwise she might have had both filly classics to her j c:vdit. Of course Kheda B. was a successful broodmare. She was bred to be one — a daughter of the I Herod horse. Hanover, out of Margerine. by Algerine. which strains to Matchem. Mated to the Keiipse stallions. Ornie and St. Frusquin, the result was most conclusive. Daughters also of Tin Commoner are t producing any number of winners, twenty-six of them having won races this year. Tlie Bruce Lowe ad- t berents woi.lil. I suppose, look askance at the pedigree of Bhoda B. and her brother. The Commoner, for i they are members of the outside, much, outside, family No. 20. Yet from this same outside family came t Belle of Portland, which scored such a signal success as a sire in Australia, the hardy Glenelg, Longfel- t low and imported Knight of St. George. I The Matchem leaven is introduced to The Commoners pedigree by way of Algerine. son of Abd-et- I Kadir. which was by Australian, out of Lexingtons half sister. Kcscue, by Berthune. Algerine is a mem- - bcr of another outside family No. 25. the family also of that really great broodmare sire. Young Mel- t bourne. Algerine is out of Sina, by Boston, a veritable link between the past and the present, for Nina i commenced her stud career by giving to the turf that famous racer. Planet, and foaled Algerine eighteen years later, only succumbing "to the inevitable at thirty-one years of age. Moreover, the daughters of Al- 1 ferine, which was falcd so long ago as 1S7.. are not done with yet, Crimea, dam of Cardigan and Collec- tor Jessup, has in addition three winners, the two-year-old. Hops, Casey Jones and Brinee llermis. this I season, the six victories of the latter having netted his lucky owner close on to 0,000. SwihI Songstress. the imported mare from which Groat Britains sire. The Commoner, descends, was by Doncaster and was cut of Melodious, by Forester or Peppermint, son of Sweetmeat Herod and ancestors also of the Brook- J Ivn and Suburban winner. Kinley Mack. Touch Not. Great ltritains dam. is a bay daughter of the black whirlwind. Tremont. I saw Tremont 1 years ago. down at Belle Meade, along with Iroquois and Great Tom. A fractious brute was Tremont, I "scattering the oats round his box and apt to give his groom an unpleasant time of it. This trait, along l with his Coat coloring. Tremont has fortunately failed to transmit to Great Britain. . Tremont was, of course, by Virgil, from Ann Fief, daughter of Alarm. The flying blood of Alarm, how many of the fleetest of our racers owe their sja-ed to the flying blood of Alarm. Tr-mout does not i.tr,. to boo o»k- .vf the Bruce lines families. His jx-digree stops short on a move by Brilliant. However. I ihe fac, of Trements being a Herod in tail male covers a multitude of other deficiencies. Virgil and Alarm are Indeed bad to beat. Touch Me Not was a daughter of Great Tom. another dingy chestnut, of Matterhorn proportions, which was a brother to the Derby winner. Kingcraft, and Croat Tom introduces I for the first time the Eclipse strain to Great Britains pedigree. Great Tom. his sides raw and bleeding I from the application liefore his exportation of some caustic blister till the day of his death, made a big 1 i:;me for himself, l»oth as a fire cf race horses and good broodmares, as might be expected from a son of Ling Tom and Woodcraft, whose dam was by the Herod horse. Venison. ! Woodbine, the next dam by Lexington was also a resident of Tennessee, and then comes Miss Pattie. I.y one of the greatest broodmare sires the world ever knew, Glencoe. and of this Glencoe strain Great Britain shows no less than seven crosses In his make up. and one to Kremlin, by Glencoos sire. Sultan. A daughter of Stockholder follows and next a daughter of laeolet. The Pacolet I take to be the sire of i ihe ancestress of Great Britain was a gray and a grandson of imported Citizen and was living in Tennessee in 1827 Neil Saunders, the next dam. Is given as by Wilkes Wonder, in regard to whose pedigree the Stud Book is not clear. After this, however, it b plain sailing. Julieta by isooortoi Dare Devil. Diana by "Iodine, and so to imported Silver by The Belsize Arabian, and winds up at Old Bald Peg. the top root of In the earlier davs of turf history this No. 0 family was a power in the land. Diomed. winner of the first Derby was a member of the line, as was Young Eclipse, which also carried off the big Epsom race a icar later Eleanor, the first filly winner of the Derby, was also a descendant of Old Bald Peg, as was Phantom Priam and Plenipotentiary, too, belong to this family, as did Musjiri and Caractacus. Back in 1175 Kin" Fergus, ancestor of ttM house of Blaeklock. was foaled. Phantom was a mighty sire and got. airoic others the renowned Cobweb, winner of the Oaks and One Thousand Guineas. Langar got many famous stud matrons, among them Vulture. Orlandos dam. Priam got. before his exportation, three Oaks winners in Industry. Crucifix and Miss Letty. The Cure got the grandam of Ormondale and Mortagon, Fla-eolet sirrd Bavon dOr and The Rover St. Gatien. but for some time past, in England, at all events. the No 0 line has" been in a stale of partial eclipse, though Coreyra and Lot Fly have done well enough. la this country the line, however, always done well and of late years better i erhaps than ever, for lie-si.. -s Ire-it Britain, there aie Worth and Old Rosebud, both winners of the Kentucky Derby, and Free 1 aare winner of the corresponding Lalonia event. Ogden, the Hamburg Place premier, is anotlier illus-;"ious member of the No. 0 family, and should Great Britain attain to as great a stud success as has the M n if Kllwarllne bis name will also be found written m the tiook of famous sires. Personally I fool any amount of confidence in Great Britains ability to impart much of his own merit to his offspring The horses conformation and disposition suggest it. and his daughters, on account of his wealth of Herod blood, will l«; invaluable for the paddock. Whether or no Great Britain is built up on lines stroii" enough to i»eriietuate the house of Glencoe remains to be seen, but he is so bred to be admirably Planted to the requirements of these topheavy imported Eclipse mares. The St. Simon-Bend Or combination should respond readily and I by no means despair of seeing the glories of the house of Glencoe carried on by some son of Great Britain. ... . _. f Virgil 20 i Vandal 12 II r Hindoo 21 J I Hynienia E Bay 1S7! 1 ... , J " " ,, ,. I I loreuce J r Lexington 12 II f ClT.W Weather Witch ..E 1 I Bourbon Belle ... I u" Scotland. . .10 J gg, ■ ",;- •« ■ 5 Bay ISW , , £ The Coiu.Hr.20 . Ella D I EK« ■* g .1 th. !«- S ]i-n -on h „! | ferine ....»J Abd-el-Kader ...l2j £*-*. ;;; •« M .a I Margerine J Nina .. Boston 40 11 £ - Bay 18MJ j Frolicsome Fanny. i: 1 I Sweet Songst less.. | Doncaster 3 i ?,t0P.k"«u ■ F- £ • l Bay 1S7*J 1 Mangold E £ c .Melodious. MoIo.1h.ms 1 Fster or Prmint.H « . Harp fj H 7 i-.i ,., Clencoo 1 fj l f Virgil 20 J andal :-] Dghter of Tranbv.E Lr. 1S04 I « Sj g= [ rlnniont Black 1 S4 I Hynienia i Dghter Yorkshire of Cripple.il 2E = I | . .. .,J Edipse 1 E ■, j [An Fief Alarm »|ifojoJ k giabarfc Mj*;...J Br. 1870 ] Embrys Lexon.:i H La MM y ■ Kate Walker j Carrie D H r Great Tom . . . .11 j King ■ Tom 3 5 f,rk*wav 2 ■ ... . „ _.! Ch. 187 Pocahontas H I 1"u;1 ICs0N°t J I Woodcraft i Voltigeur I E th. 1880 -j J Dghter of YenisoiiH Woodbine Lexington 12 j Boston 40 11 *" Bay 1800 1 ] Alice Carneal E I Miss Pattie Glencoe 1 E I D. of Stockholder. .11 E— Eclipse H— Herod. M— Matchem.
