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] • | t . • * — * i LINES OF DESCENT OF MR. WHITNEYS FAMOUS BROODMARE, FORGET, DAM OF BORROW By De. M. M. LEACH 4, 4. : Truly a marvelous stud matron is Forget. Quite recently her two-year-old daughter. Remembrance, was returnc?d a winner and. as luck would have it. Remembrance is Forgets only filly foal, and it must l-e a source of gratification to Mr. Whitney to know that Remembrance has kept up family traditions. Remembrance, if she in any way takes after her famous dam. is certain to gain additional honors on the turf and in future days to become the dnm of famous turf performers. Remembrance, pleasing nomenclative this; may she live long to keep alive the remembrance of Forget. Forget herself was one of the wear and tear sort, taking her part in no less than ninety-three races and winning thirty-three of them — fifteen on the flat, seventeen hurdle races and one steeplechase. As a 1 tlat racer rorget does not appear to have been of anything like high class, for more than once she was 1 entered to be sold for such an insignificant sum as |400. Just to think what a veritable gold mine was t« dig hawked about for this sum. Hylas, the first of her offspring, won close onto JflJUKK in 190«». The 1 •ollowing year Hylas put together a score of $,"i,0 0. Dreamers winning total, at the windup of that same year, was 1915.sh..".7." and Dinna Ken won o,2S5. In all. Forgets produce in 1907 won *;,lill0 in first money iiloue. The following year saw Hylas shipped to France, but Dreamer and Delirium kept the pot boiling for Forget, and afterwards eaine Oversight, a good winner fo" a number of years in England, and Over- si.ht was by odds the boM h.irse ever sired by Ballyhoo Bey. as was Dinna Ken the best of the Yankees. In 1010 Borrow, by Hamburg, and a brother to Dreamer, won the Middle Park IMate at Xewmarket and I continued a suecesslut racing career abroad up until last year, when he was returned to this country to : become the biggest money winner of this year with more than 0,000 opposite his name. Another of Forgets produce. Slumber 11., has already won six good races this year worth 1915.sh,170. and now there is j Li m mhrance to keep the name and fame of the grand old mare prominently before the racegoing public. For some reason Mr. Whitney elected to geid all of Forgets mule produce. The brothers. Borrow, Dreamer and Slumber II. . are all well-bred enough to have developed into first-class sires: in fact, the trinity are quite as well bred as is the Red Bank reliance, Burgomaster, and now that the Olencne line hangs only bv such a slender thread it would seem that undue haste was exercised in adding Forgets sons. I Hamburg. to the list. Forget, if still alive, is getting well along in years and would lie twenty-two. but perhaps there mav lie a couple of Jersey-bred youngsters coming on ti gain additional turf triumphs for the iwpular Eton blue acket ami brown cap. Mr. Whitney purchased Forget at his fathers dispeisal sale in 1004. cheaply enough as things turned out. for ,500. which, of course, was better than being entered to be sold for of». but nothing like her true value, and no one there seemed to appreciate the latent worth of Forget, which a study of her blood lines would indicate, and Forget was the liest bargain in the broodmare line. Hurley Barley notwithstanding, made by Mr. Whitney at the famous sale. 1 nave not access lo the English racing calendars, otherwise 1 should total up the entire amount won by the offspring of Forgot — Hylas. Dreamer. Dinna Ken. ! Delirium. Overs!ght. Berrow. Slumber II. and Remembrance— all of them high-ciass or nigh onto high-class racer*, verily a splendid stud record for any one mare. Here is Fot gets odigiee: Fitz Gladiator . ..12 Gladiator 22 II j Compiegne Zarah M ..2 I Maid of Hart .... The Provost ...4 E . j Martha Lynn ...E i The Baron or J Plenipotentiary C E i . Comtesse N,,,,,i" 12 « A1,y H; ■ J Kviic 19 J Fn«»i.in Eusebia J Etnilins 28 E , I" f Bayiisi 1 "j Mangel Wurzel ..II £ =* g . I i Birdcatcher ...Ue[ „. „ „, „ J = rStockweil ...r,i T1,e Baron M|KSn E i if! l "S "cT1 j ch m° "*— •- I MaZ£a • v::::1. ■ H-fM lOaiety | Touchstone .. .14 j g-gel. . . . -. ;M ■ O r* I * — --• t Whisker IE Cast Steel S» = z| Twinkle H PS I * j I — Stockwell | E " . i • fThe 111-Fsed.lS J Breadalhane ...10. Rlink r,,,,, M £ - r. , . B«y "0 I _, Chanticleer ....2:5 E a / Forester ....4 Ellermire Fllerdale E £ ■ = Ch. 1S79 " _ . j ., ..Mil . Censor Lexington 12 II or J I ■ J I l * *«*»«* 4 j "a™h* " woodbl .... Forever .... 5 .* 1 * 7 2 1887 , i S i860 Flcur des C!iamps. j £3- . ; ; ; * J *i Eclipse uissr-" l::n r i I •"■ ■ ~ Alarm 15 J L Fidele Bay 18t» I Maud J Stockwell 3E Bay 18S2 " C. of Albemarle..!/ Leamington ....14 j Fgh a Ballagh.ll E fc to i - i IL. Scarlwro ugh J , j, of Pantaloon. II Bay MM 1 _ . - , ., „ „ I Lady Lumley ..... Rataplan 5 ■ I Schottishe E E— Eclipse. 11— Herod. M— Malchem. As so frequently happens in the cases of reallv good producing mares, we find Forget to be in tail male of Herod dcsieut. Pocahontas. Queen Mary. Agnes. Lily Agues, her sister Tiger Lily. Rouge Rose. Amie, dam of Ajax and Alarm: Bahta, Gleiielgs dam: Spinawav. by Macaroni: Doris, dam of Sunstar and Princess Dorrie: Xantura. Longfellows dam: Handspuu; Melba, which foaled Stalwart and Perverse: ■MB, dam of Ethelbert. and Jersey Lightning, dam of Regret, and this years Futurity winner. Thunderer, are a few more of the Herod persuasion which come readily to mind. and. slionld Mr. Whitney, by xinie lucky chance, manage to stumble across this article, it may do something towards enlightening him lo the debt he owes for his turf success to the house of Herod. Exile, sire of Forget, was imported Mortemcrs best American-bred son. Mortenier was a champion, Itoth as a race horse and a sire, and was said, by such n recognized authority as Admiral Rons to l-e. when he won the Ascot Gold Cup. seven pounds the best horse then racing iu England. Mortemcrs daughters, such as Melba. Castalla. Brookdale Xymphs dam: Soncy Lass, dam of Souffle: Saluda, dam of Silwla, winner of the One Thousand: Veva. Delhis dam: Wanda, a grand race mare and dam of Crania and ancestress of Mr. H. B. Durjeas Derby winner. Durbar II. : The Sweeper. Winter and Maurine were all of them quite of the first class, in fact, I have always regarded a dash of the Mortemer strain as most desirable. Exile was out of Stockwells daughter, imported Sect nd Hand, and comes of the staying line Xo. 19 and introduces to the pedigree valuable crosses of Touchstone and Whisker; in fact. Exile is built up on the stoutest lines imaginable. Forester, sire of Forgets dam. Forever, himself a most capable race horse, was by imported The 111 I sod. from Woodbine, by Kentucky, whoso Boston strain alone introduces the obscure blood into Forgets pedigree. But Kentucky comes of probably the iiest "Ainerlcr.n" family in the Book, mj that not much danger can lie looked for from this source. Xext iu line comts Fidele, by that wonderfully prepotent sire, Alarm, whose blood figures so prominently iu ihe makeup cf many of our most esteemed race horses, stallions and broodmares of the present !:v. Following the Alarm cross comes that of imported Leamington, whose daughter. Lady Scarborough. Ml the third dam of Forget, and Lady Scarborough is out of Lady Lumley. by Rataplan, ancestress also of Mr. George Longs second Kentucky Derby winner. Sir Huon. Indeed, the pedigree of Forget is of exceeding merit, yet she was entered to be sold for a paltry iO. and right here is where a knowledgeable understanding of the blood lines would have stood a prospective buyer on the lookout for bargains in the brt.odmaro line in good stead. Many race course bargains could ho picked up this way. but our trainers and owners here in the Cnited States are apparently -olely concerned with the race course, if I may so term it. value of their holdings, having but sketchy knowledge of the genealogy of the animals they are most thrown in contact with. Perhaps the pedigree of Forget discloses a certain deficiency in Matchem blood. This, however, is well supplied in the case of Borrow by Hamburg, whose dam. Lady Reel, is by the Australian horse. Fel-low craft, anil Ballyhoo Bey. sire of Oversight. Is by Kingston, grandson of Australian. On the other hand. Dinna Ken is by the Herod-Eclipse horse. Yankee, and though Dinna Ken was returned a good winner iii his second year." he did not show anything like some of the others of Forgets produce. Stallions of the Glencoe persuasion. Mortemer, his son Exile, Dionied and all his tribe. Sir Modred. St. George. Woodlands, etc were of Herod descent, and Longfellow, Leamington. Eclipse, Bonnie Scotland and Adam were all of them out of Herod mares. Is it not high time breeders awoke to the excellence of the Ilcrod line and purchased abroad, especially in France, stallions of Herod descent. France is strong strongest of any country, in Herod blood. The Flying Dutchman line still flourishes in La Belle France! as does the house of Gladiator and that of Atlantic, from which comes Roi Ilcrode. sire of The Tetrarch" and strange as it may appear, there are no stallions tracing in the male line to any of these three truly great stallions standing for service in the Cnited States.
