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f * + TWO NEW STALLIONS OF ST. SIMONS FAMILY NOW AT HAMBURG PLACE By Dk. M. M. LEACH *■»" ■1 of lu in S - I tl ai hi r f, of 0 v a. as K n j j: -p u s, a j, g j j if j , j, j, , v j s j a a j j • j , ■ Writing last autumn. I was lamenting the scarcity first lass imported stallions standing for service this blue grass region of Kentucky. I aJso wrote something relative to the purchase of a few good Fnglish sires by our more enterprising breeders now that bloodstock is bringing such insignificant prices abroad. My entreaties, however, do not seem to have borne much fruit. I am, of course, well aware that a number ef really well bred colts have been purchased on tho foreign market during the past few months. Some these colts are certain as anything destined to develop into race horses of the highest class, but years must necessarily elapse before their services stallions will be available to the breeders of Kentucky. The stallion ranks of the blue grass region have now been materially strengthened by the arrival of three newcomers in Wrack. Pelaud and Sea King. The first named has been brought over by Mr. Arthur Hancock and will. I understand, make the season of 1910 near Palis. Bourbon county, Ky. But of this more anon. Suffice it now to say that Wrack is a son of Kobert le Diablo and was a more than creditable racer, both on the fiat and over the slicks, in his home land, and comes of the same immediate branch of the No. 1 family as Iadas and Cicero. Today it is my intention to deal with the two new Hamburg Place arrivals. Iataud and Sea King. Mr. Madden, with his usual foresight, fully realizes that his premier. Ogden. is getting to be quite an old man now and that multitudinous site. Star Shoot, 1 may so designate him, is close on to nineteen years of age. The excellence of the get of any horse Galopla was the exception depreciates mat r ially after they have passed their eighteenth milestone, and Mr. Madden was assuredly well advised when he acquired two such exceptionally well bred young stallions as Pataud and Sea King for stud service at Hamburg Place. As yet I have had no opportunity to personally inspect either of Mr. Maddens horses, but both are almost certain to most worthily follow in the footsteps of their predecessors. In fact. Sea King has already commenced his stud career in most auspicious style by giving to the turf that good colt King Neptune, winner of eight good races this year. Jut an inkling of wh.it may be ea petted of the »©ir of Persimmon and Sea Air now that he is safely located in the blue grass. As I said above, I have not as yet been lutro- - • : l t . • l i i t j Pcrsimmons comparatively early death was indeed a great loss to the bloodstock breeders of England, but fortunately he has left behind a number of sons full worthy of carrying on this branch of the house of St. Simon. The St. Legor winner. Your Majesty has begun his stud career in capital style. getting Princess Dorrie, winner of the tine Thousand Guineas and Oaks in his first season, but Your Majesty is awav to the Argentine. The services of "that splendid race horse. Prince Palatine are, however, available to Knglish breeders and there allot her sons, such as Fugleman, of which their future seems bright and so far as 1 am aware Sea King is the only son of Persimmon whose services are on offer to the breeders of Kentucky. Sea Air. Sea Kings dam. is a beautifully bred daughter of the cup horse. Isonomy. which also got Arcadia, dam of that truly grand race horse and sire, Gyllene. Sea Air is a member of one of the best branches of the Burton Barb family and her grandam. Ma-belle, is also ancestress of Peter Pan, the terrible The Tetrarch, that fine French rare mare. Clyde. sad was also a sister to the Derby winner Cre-morne. Parmesan, sire of Mabille and Cremorne. was, of course, of llemd descent, though, judged as a whole, the pedigree of Sea King must be written down as deficient in Herod and Matchem blood. Mares, therefore, whose pedigree discloses these two lines, close to the surface, should be selected as mates for Mr. Maddens new arrival. What of Pataud V Mr. Madden tells me that Pataud was a good winner and in this country showed excellent form in his trials, but could never be got to the post. Iataud is a sou of Darby Dale and the French-bred daughter of Tyrant, La Poetica. Darley Dale, the sire, was bred at Hunciecroft, by the Duke of Portland and won one of the English ten thousand t ound races, and has achieved much success as a sire in France — so much so, in fact, that he was re-purchased to stand for service in England. Darlev Dale is a brother to that good race horse Dismay and also to Mrs. Delaney, dam of that fine staver Bight Koyal, whose early death in Texas was a" distinct loss to the breeding interests of the Lone Star State. So far St. Simon horses and horses of St. Simon descent, in tall male, with the exception of Barney Sebrelbers great little winner-getter Sain, have hardly accomplished what was expected of them in this country. As Major T. C. McDowell once put it: "St. Simon horses dont seem to fit here." Mr. Madden, however, has by no means lost faith in he excellence of the St. Simon tribe. A. J. Joyner. Mr. Whitneys accomplished trainer, who has recently returned from abroad, is quoted as saying: "Like everybody else. 1 consider the St. Simon strain the best in the world," and it is strange indeed, this lack of success on the part of St. Simon horses as sires in the United States. Darley Dale on his dams side traces to that famous stud matron Maid or Mashanj, ancestress of any number of our best race horses and sires of he present time. Darley Dales pedigree, however. shows a prepondereuce of the Eclipse straiu, which ■ ,A, duced to Sea King, but have more than a speaking acquaintance with is brother Sea Prince. What a lovely horse he was — full of quality. Mr. Robertson bought him from Thomas Waugh of Newmarket in the summer of 1012, and he was one of the number which made the long voyage to Australia in the autumn of that year. On his arrival in Melbourne. Sea Prince was at once turned over to that ardent plunger. E. A. Connelly, who regarded htm as, perhaps, the best horse he ever trained. Sea Prince is a beautiful golden chestnut, exquisitely molded, of almost perfect symmetry, sixteen hands, two white heels behind, in fact one of the . most taking horses it has ever been my lot to come , in contact with. Besides, when in the notion. Sea Prince could race to a pretty tune himself and j could have won Iosinatus Melbourne Cup, but. he , would not. only to come out ten days later and I win the 0,000 Williamstown Cup, after a terribly . rough passage, in which the luck was all against him. I know nothing of Sea Kings ability as a j race horse, but I do know that his half-brother . PieterinHiitzhurg was a rare good sort, and was I first home in one of the English ten thousand I pounders. I paid the horse a visit at Lordship I Farm, early in the spring of 1004. being then on , a trip to England in quest of a first -class stallion , to head the Senorita Stud and was much impressed with the good looks and general appearance of the , sea of St. Simon and Sea Air, by Isonomy. The horse, however, had developed a number of large warts anil, fir this reason, I declined to enter into j negotiations as to his purchase. Pleteriiiaritzhurg . was afterwards sent to the Argentine, where, during an all too brief stud career, he accomplished j big tilings in the stud, and I have always been I anxious to know if those warts had anything to do with his comparatively early demise. Pietermaritz-burg. true to his St. Simon parentage, was a bay, but both Sea King and his brother. Sea Prince, are :, chestnuts. Personally my preference is for the bay . and brown St. Simons for stock horses. The chestnut Zinfandel is a case in point. As a race horse . . Zinfandel was near unto first-class and proved good enough to win an Ascot Gold Cup. and only lost the Cesarewitcb through incompetent jockeyship, but ,. Zinfandel, despite his opportunities, failed ignominious!/ as a sire. Howevtr, Sea King lias started j out quite in the right way. but I should lie inclined to prefer those of his get whose coat coloring ■ is bay or brown. Here is his pedigree: Vedette ipYoltigeur 2E ? Galopin 3 ■ Mrs. Bidgway ...E 3 I Flying Duchess .. j Merope Fly. Dutchman.. 3 H ■ j . I King Tom 3 Harkaway 2 ■ I St. Angela Pocahontas H I J I Adeline ft" ••••-.• 4 H I g ~- Persimmon ..7j I Little Fairy L ■ : I Lord Clifden ....2 j minster ....8 F. The Slave M ,r S f Hampton 10 ° l_ ... Lady Lnngden ... -I Kettledrum 3E B T, °» -, Perdita II. ..4 I Haricot E i Cj S | Young Melbrne.25 • Melbourne 1 M ,[ £ o t Hermoine ■ Clarissa H I 3 £ * ■— **- • and•££!-. . : : : : .2e ■ ■ 3- Sterling ,i «— * «* [gSkfSar ".VA* ." p, . ■ r I whisner i Flatcatcher S ■ P vTMUus. r 1 £ Isonomy ....19- SUesam M ■ . Stockwell 3 i The Baron ... .24 E J 1. I H I g1 , _. Pocahontas lSe, IsolaBella j Kthelbert 12 E K feea Air ,Ip 0y 2j • I Bassishaw M il _ I Thunderbolt .. .11 I Stockwell 3E f Reverberation J Cordelia L | The Golden Horn, i Harkaway 2 .. • Re-echo 4 Lit. R. Rover mare. • , .,, Parmesan 7 -I Sweetmeat 21 H [I ,r I Mabille J I Gruyere I j,; I Rigolboche i Bataplan 3E ., ~ Dght. of Gardham.li II E — Eclipse. II — Herod. M — Matchem. is only partially relieved by the Matchem blood ■ which is Introduced by Young Melbourne, sire of his " third dam. Adelaide, and the Herod blood of Flying I Duchess, dam of Galopin. This lack of Herod blood I1 is, however, admirably balanced up on the dams J side of Patauds pedigree, for La Poetica is full of * the best strains of Herod blood. Iji Poetica is herself rj of Eclipse descent, a daughter of that good III Yorkshire race horse Tyrant, son of Beauclere. by y Rosterudan and out of one of Mr. Mclutyres celebrated r "Queen" mares which, of course, trace to j° that remarkable winner nud producer, Alice Hawthorn. " Following La Poetica, come threo mixed dams in "1 a row: her dam. La Malmaison. is a daughter of jf Fontainblou. a double barreled Herod. Foutainbleu. u. her sire, was Dollar, the best sou of Flying Dutchman, "". and La Malmaison is out of Finlande, by Ion. sire of Adeline, grandam of St. Simon. La a Jaiichere. the next dam, was a famous race mare in her day and won the French Oaks, as did her ?h sister. Eiiguerrande win the corresponding English [■ classic. La Jaiichere and her sister were daughters JJ of Vermouth, son of The Wshoh, which figures !ls prominently in the makeup of St. Gatiens dam, St. Edit ha. The Nabob traces, in the male line, by way of The Nob and Glaucus to Gladiator. Deliane. the next dam, was a daughter of The ■• Flying Dutchman himself, so that we have no less S-J than three crosses of Flying Dutchman, in the first SI thirty-two quarterings. of Patauds pedigree. 1 I have tabulated any number of the pedigrees of the !• best race horses which have graced the turf, of this ls and other lands, during the past twenty-five years, s- hut, never liefore, do I remember having come "* across a pedigree which disclosed such a wealth of u Flying Dutchman blood as does that of Pataud aud 1,1 this of itself insures for Mr. Maddens new horse a a successful stud career and I will venture the assertion r" that there? is no other stallion standing for service, r" in this country at least, which is so liberally Y supplied with Flying Dutchman blood as is Pataud. o- Iinperieuse. which follows, was an Oaks winner er, by Orlando and was out of Eulogy, ancestress cf of the Australian champion Carbine and half-sister, r. by Euclid, to Voltigeur and Volley, grandam of of Lord Clifden. For my part, I am vastly impressed with the excellence x- of Patauds pedigree. Three crosses of of Flying Dutchman blood s good enough for anything. Darley Dale, the sire, is a member of the all-conquering II- Maid of Masbaui family, and Darley Dale H also introduces the most valuable lines of Hermit and Young Melbourne. Mssque brings in the blood ; d of Queen Mary and also that of Sweetmeat through !" Carnival. All this is well backed up by three ee Herod dams in a row. and besides Pataud is a mem n. l er of an A No. 1 branch of the Burton Bern family. . The question now crops up, what mares should Il we select as suitable mates for Pataud? Wrhy. • daughters of Ogden. of course. Ogden. as you well HI Continued on second page. TWO NEW STALLIONS OF ST. SIMONS FAMILY NOW AT HAMBURG PLACE. Continued from first page. know, is of IfatCkeaS descent, but the balance of ids pedigree is overwhelmingly Eclipse, and a sisicr to Gillies would Indeed, ! o an ideal male for him. Hamburg mares, more especially on account of the Australian blood in his dam. should also give good results wheu mated with F.itaud. as should daughters or Hastings, Kingston, and mnres of P.ar-caldlne descent or marcs by sires, such as Voter or Mountain King, whose dams are daughters of the unbeaten son of Salon sad Bally roe. I dont know that Mr. Madden, when he pnr-chased Patau*, was aware of the general excellence of his pedigree anil I, myself, pointed out to him the existence of the three crosses of the Flying Dutchman. Anyway, Mr. Madden lias managed to get hold of a St. Simon horse, f"r which 1 CSS confidently predict a bright future as a sire, and here is bis pedigree: i I | [ - 1 J 1 i I i 1 1 7 ! i ! , J r i 7 ., . C Vedette iPJVoitigear 2 Lab.piu :: j Mrs. Bldgway f St. Simon... 11 , Hyin« """•"*•■•• j "£■* lteh-sa...3 [ ... . . King Tom 3 j Harkaway 2 l St. Angela j Pocahontas -0 f Darlcy Bale..*- Adeline. J Ion | © I Little Fairy 5 Sterling U Oxford 12 ** f ,T Isonomy 10 J J Whisper 1 Lts„v.v v Isola Bella j Stockwell :: ■ 3 Isinay ] | Isaikse gf« Hermit .-, j Newminster S d - *• St. Alvere ■ .,, I Seclusion and J Adelaide ,, • »«». i „ „- ij 2 1 oiinjj Uelbournc.23 5 fi I Dter of Tbddingto i P Bea.tclerc 10 I Rosicrucia,, S t rlyrant - 4 ] Queen of tlu- 1 Bonny Dell 5 Meadows I Lxminster 7 | M« saw -j IQaeea of the May.. S [ . Mask s4Garaasal u L Hastily [Meteor kin* Poetica...2- 0-°":l [%?%* "••••••••■« j nie Swan - . Dollar 7 Flying Du|. ]„„.,,, ..:: r lontainbletl 5 Payment I Fiiilan ! • Ion . . i v La Malssslsoa. J rrandalent "........ , Vermouth j -| i„. Jsbob ...ljll I Lc r Jauchcre T i | TermieUe .. :: i; Deliaue i The F. Dchmau.:; | I Impel ietiso | E— Eclipse. H— Herod. M— Matcucm.
