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SIRES IN THE GREAT BROOKDALE STUD. • Outward Characteristics of Horses Which Make Turt History Through Their Piogeny. P.r.*.iiisii,-k. the leader anion;: American sires of ■ tli - -ar. is barked by a rare combination of merits, royally bred, a wonderfully last and stout-hearted l race Ih.isc. exquisite individuality and a lirillia.it record a- a sire, not only of great race horses ami ! high-class stake winners* but of thoroughly useful f handicap liors. s and high-class sidling platers; in short, of rarely failing to get something well worth | sliiliii- to the races. m ji an eastern turf writer. lieu Broomstick was taking his early lessons in i .•"iiii: at the training quarters of his owner, Cap. S. S. Brown, down in Mobile, .luring February. BHCt. in charge of trainer Peter Wiininer. every -l-xlv who looked him over was impressed with his 1 faultless r n format ion and exquisite finish, but 1 most of them shook their heads and declared that 1 while I*, was a little In-auiy and might come to hand early and win some of the early three eighths 1 spriuts for babies at the winter tracks, be was too small to pick op scale weights and finish ahead of f the big two-year obis he would have to meet in the iiotr .|M.litan circuit. And yet Broomstick did win his first start in the " met roi to! it an circuit, finishing in front in a good I field in the Juvenile Stak - at Morris Bark. This. • and in fact his brilliant success on the turf later canoed horsemen to wonder that such a small horse " could do such things: but now that he has lived in II retirement, he has grown t such range ami sub stance that he cannot be regarded as a small thoroughbred any longer. He is nearly or quite two 0 inches talb-r than was his fatuous sire. Ben Brush, • and he is n.arlv as long and thick. lie stands between 15.. and 1« hands high and would weigh over 1.10O pounds. While not gross as s far as bi» present condition is concerned, he is high 11 in flesh, but this fails to conceal his enormous 1 muscular development. Hi- arms and the muscles s just altore them are thick enough for a draft horse ■ and. thick a- they are. they are long and beauti-fullv outlined in-toad of Mag gnarled and knotted j .. like tho-.- of the slow-motion, d haulers of heavy loads. Although high in flesh. Br--unstick appears more 0 like a grand-looking four year-old recently taken out of training than a fourteen-year-old -ire which 1 already lia- won for himself a world wide reputation as a sire of great race horses. This is especially noticeable when he is taken out into the big grassv IMtddnck adjoining his large and perfectly lighted ,i and ventilated 1k.. which serves as his sleeping „ apartment and dining room at Brookdalo. When led oul to is.se for his |iortrait he was Z espe.-iallv playful and troubles me. Standing in l«-rfe.t iH.sc with disteuded nostrils, drinking in " the eri-p air. which had the first fresh nip of autumn . in il and his rich bay coat gleaming in tin alter . noon sunlight, lis aie fixed at the far-ofl horizon, he would look the very ideal of what was wanted, 1 . but just as the loaded camera was leveled at him something within his wide range of vision would seem to stir his sense of humor and on the instant he . would stand straight on his hind legs and paw the ., . air Willi his feet far aU.vc the head of his colored groom, who was trying to coax him to stand in one p. -it ion just long enough for a snapshot. Broomstick i- a rich, dark bay. solid colored, with h black |« ints. lie has a small, bloodlike head ■with Il unusually large bright .yes which always seem to o have a piavful. kindly look in them, a particularly fine tajering muzzle, broad. Hat forehead, wide le jowls clean and beautifully arched throttle, thin i small car- ahrtlv carried, a daintily crested and d finely arched n.-ck of in .re than average length. . evqiiisit.lv laM-red from rangy and oblique shoulders 1- to a perfect throat, deep, roomy chest affording g grand lung space, a cylindrical barrel, short, broad d back: a heavllv muscled loin, wide and high: perfect t quarters well laid together: smooth hips, wide and d massive stii-s well let .1 wn. ]M.werful, well-arclied d gaskins ami faultless hocks and knees. His cannon n bones are short and strong. l»is pasterns are of f good length and sufficiently oblique to ensure elasticity »- and wear and tear qualities, and admirable e f -et. . . In blood lines Broomstick is a prince. Hi* sire. -*. Ben Brush, was a great race horse and the best son n of Bramble, and Bramble was by long odds the best •t son of Bonnie Scotland as a sire and the best horse c of his day over cup courses, and Bonnie Scotland, V by lago "was a s-n of that queen of broodmares, ;; oueoii Marv. from which, lx-sides Balrownie and a other good ones, has sprung iiliuk Bonny, and. taken " all in all her son. Blair Athol. was without doubt one of the greate-i horses that ever won the Epsom " Derby. , , . , , Klf the dam of Broomstick, was a choicely bred English mare bv Oalliar.l. and he by Galopin. a notable " Derby winner and sire of that incomparable a. sire. St. Simon. _ Ben Brushs dam was Roseville. by Reform, sou " *Br Ieamington. Ivy Leaf, the dam of Bramble. • ■rVs bv Australian out of Bay Flower, by Lexington. : • •nt of Bay Leaf, dam of Ireakness. Bayonet and other great sons of Lexington by Yorkshire. By right of breeding and conformation, but es pecially bv virtue of his performances on the turf. • Whisk Broom II. deserves a close second place to " his illustrious sire in Bro .kdales splendid quartette of stallions now quartered in the stud barn, which, • by the way. is a model in its line, like all the c Brookdalo equipment. As far as individuality is concerned, it may lie said that Whisk Broom II. and his famous sire t. differ widely: but in the matter of conformation u the only essential variation is that the son is a considerably ,. enlarged edition of the sire. Each has K marvelous driving i ower, and each has faultless is |r r-iciu- angles, combined with marvelous muscular .. development. u the other hand, while Broomstick is a solid dark hay with black shadings. Whisk k Broom II- is a bright golden chestnut, which shows . •l glint of purple like the iris of the dove under ,j. • stron- sunlight, with a white star, and his off him. ! fool Tin.l ankle are white marly half way to the .. hock Then Whisk Br.Mjm II. is a giant among i~ thorouglllireds. standing nearly seventeen hums J high covering a great deal of ground and weighing J i.robablv 1 250 |iounds. lie is simply an ideal thoroughbred, j ami an exceptionally large, long and In blood lines, of course. Whisk Broom II. has thos- of Broomstick, his sire, in the male line, . while his dam. Audience, liesides lieing a high-class ;s .,- r-i.e nvire was a royally bred one. Through her sire Sir Dixon, she receives the priceless Voltigeur ir strain through Billet, who was descended in the ,,. nrile line direct from Voltigeur. and through his js dan. Jaconet, she traces to Leamington on one M side and Maggie B. B. n the other Jaconet being m .J sister to the only American colt, Iroquois, whicu won the Epsom Derby. Peter Ban the high-priced son of Commando, „ l_ which after a brilliant racing career enjoyed an alb stav in the stud, but one which was of , • too-brief wellnight unparalleled smve-s. is perhaps he third ,1 of sires, although he was Brookdalo quartet in the ,j- sl.e bi-hest-prio.-d animal in the dispersal sale « J the world-famous Keeiie collection of tlH.roughbre.ls. His brilliant performances on the turf and his pedi-" ,, rj .i, jn the costliest winning strains, are too .o Familiar to the racing public to requite recital m in 1 L connection. He is a horse of colossal propov-,U,„s. r- standing nearly IT hands high and weighing ,i fullv 1 3O0 noiinds. il.. is a dark dappled bay with a small blaze and id a white hind foot on the off side. Although of gigantic i- propo, lions, he caiin.t but remind the e-Srienced t- horseman of his world-famous grnndsirc e. lb i lino the great st colt in a year which was famed •1 ..f great ...Its. Domino was is for the appearance , I.noui.ced bv some an ideal "thoroughbred pony hon" I. his" winnings in a single year were the ic a horse of .! far any American race test re.-or.h-d r i season, and there was a certain in for one •M!ln.": m,.v i-e in the apellation as describing the famous ,s of Hiinvar— Maimie .icy. . s, n Peer Ban in everything nut MZe. lx-ars a stl.k- • .... lam. .me 1. to 1 Iloi.iino. He has a short, neatly i 3 rosea ,„s . .,„.,.,„,„, :l!„, " o,V and s.al muzzle, a clean and finely arched 5 ?!-*«!.■ 111 high and even massive crest, a powerful ! r, cil r .. ■• «f an almost exaggerated mas,,,- " " 2 _■ "..""slor but mn tr.g ami fairly elastic pas,.,„s. J *• rather short ~, , .,:lskjus. Alto- ="- """.Tlr., -Pan V- « grand looking thoroughbred ■d tttfg-ZSSZJandZ* yearlings in in ,"i"J 1.:. the hand- of II. P. Whitney • v Lngland iMs-ed IMss-t and id , tntIt son »f Bersimmon V."D W M4 " "v,r *,::- "." ,V, is l.ame d »r. t. fell ii • - English string and was i- put into "♦• ."! a » wi-„ner. but after crossing the ie more than oi« fppn, ;iI,., ,„. h:lll id Atlantic he la b d ., f ,,„. n„| when Mr. r. s " * b.e„ eBpecUUy waii „„, persevered with. li. «»" Whitney booght amo • ..g ,„. Br,„kdale sires, and id lie was enrolled although only iy now. after "he I.H.king stallh«i. "• impressive old. he i is an «u k *ven years J ti|||1| fullj. jx x »,r H,. j larger tha j .....i-iderable gr.Min.l. "- teen hands higlj ; »«« ,,,, ul.igb l.ir.U or |«r ■ It is pn.bablc tliat ; nan |H11ue. snmothly baps 1.175 IsMiids. I i MjiUs ,K,werf«Uj l% turned horse with ,,,. ,„ ,„.,.,„ " n,„scle.I ami rich in mm 1] .n , , ||-|r • r golden ch.«stnut. w " ; 1,.sc,ndiug from that ", bind foot is w.1""- Vi„ through his greatest incomparable sire • • ■ , f,1. u,. „r his dam, n. son. All :ol«l Jf ,r" . I,,,,, the first Derby win-Dame i,. d«»r But |.jr«iiim"» KdwanI VII. win •u „ ,,er «*■« " »2 J U,.nd brother to Diamond Jubilee. .•, Prince of UK / • ■ l ! f | the second Derby winner, owned by the llien Prince •f Wale-. «a- and i- now regarded as one of the greatest colts recorded ill Kngli-li lurl l.i-teiy. James Uowe eulertaius a high opinion of Ibis fa-liioiiablv -bred vouiig sire, ami his go.nl opinhU of him is not foumled merely upon his wonderful blood line- ami his line individuality, but rather upon the splendid crops of yearlings and weanlings on tile farm which have ken sired by Iiini. It is true he ha- had a choice | t of mares, but every colt and lUv of his get is an extremely handsome and promising individual. In a general way they bear a striking resemblance to the get of Broomstick, and this in itself would be a marked tribute to their uniform excellence.
