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RICHLY BRED YOUNGSTERS MR. BILLINGS BAND OF ENGLISH TWO-YEAR-OLDS TRAINING IN VIRGINIA. ! Expert Analysis of Their Close Relationship to | Famous Winning Horses on the . Other Side. 1 By Dr. M. M. Leach. Mr. Hillings imported English bred two-year-etas, which wcic purchased .it Newmarket last autumn by C. T. Patterson, are bow receiving their early education at Kirhiiientl. Va.. and ate Reported to be, as their breeding suggests, a hanrfanaar well-grown liand. and it Roea without saying that the food wiakea of all horsemen g a with Mr. Billings in his new venture. Mr. Patterson also is deserving of muck praise for the judicious manner iu which he made Ids selections. Here is a list of the Billings youngsters: All Star, a chestnut son of the Derby winner. gunstar, is out f Falling Star, by Rightaway, and traces in tlie female line to Doll Tearaheet, Hi I : in of tin- Derby winner. Merry Hampton, and Doll Tearsheet was. moreover, the dam of Cay Hermit. which was scut to the Argentine, there to score a Id;. success ;ls a sire. The chestnut. Bachelors Hope, is by the pitpnlaT Irish sire. Tiv-ionnis. sire . f bachelors Doable and Bachelors Hope, I t n smart race horses. Tredennis i- by K. ndal. sire of Gsltee More, from St. Marguerite ami. therefore, half brother to Roquebrune, dam of Hock Sand. Bachelors Bones dam is Lady-t am, daughter of that great broodmare sin. cal-liuulo. and the family is the Martha I.ynn bram-ii of the No. 2 line, from which come Voltigeur. Lor I Clifden, Carbine, Lmniorrande. DeUiaae, etc. Canterbury Tales is a chestnut by Chancer, Stod-lasts sjre. and out of Baa, by Ian. son of St. Serf, thtta doubling up tin- St. Simon bloid on tli • top lines of the pedigree. Greek Legend is by Englands champion sire. Polj nielus. a bay. and out of Kvadne. by Sidus. soil of St. Simon, and this is the plan on which last J ears .lassie winner P mmera is bred. Poininenis dam. Merry Agnes, is a daughter of SJ. Hilaire. which traces to Maid of Mnsham. as does Star of Erin, the dam of Sidus. Moreover, Star of Erin is a sister to Astrology. Star Shots dam. Surely Greek Legend is bred t race, and besides all this. Greek Legends maternal ancestress is Fu-ec. dam of St. Blaise and Candlemas. Grundy, yet another chestnut, la by Roquelaars. half-bK thrr by Ladas to Bock Sand, and Grundys dam is Prude, by Meddler, whose daughters af • doing so well as stud matrons. On the dams side Grundy traces to Paradigm, dam of Lord i.y n and Achievement and ancestress of Ladas. Chelandry, Cicero and hosts ol other winners of the liest class. Moratoriums sire Marajax. is a beautifc.ll.v-bred son of Aja and Mary Seaton and I feel every eoa-Bdencc in predicting his success as a sire. Omar Khayyams sire 1- Marco, i Cambridgeshire winner, and sire of Sell Gow. Marco, Is, of course, a sun of the Matcbeni horse Barcaldlue. Lfanam, Omar Khayyams dam. is by Persimmon and traces to Adelaide by Meii rm This is splendid breeding. Persimmon mares have parted their sire to II. e top "I the winning broodmare sire list i r the past two years in England and there is no letter family in all the world than the Adelaide branch of the Maid of Maahani line. When writng of Mr. Oots importations List week 1 stated that he had brought oxer the only son of Rol llernle which has as yet found his way to this country, but nou Bud myself to i«- in error, for in Royal Writ Mr. Killing also has ;, colt by the sin- of T! e Tetrarch and a rarely-bred one he is. being out of Alphabet, by Gasspin or Friars Balsam Voters site from Symbol, sister to the Oaks winner Gehelmuiss, dam of Oddfellow, and should this roungster Bod himself possessed of anything like th,. spec! of ••The Terrible Tetrarch" there will be mil eh rejoicing oil the part of the Billings partisans this year. Gantrys bay son Sanacrlt is certainly bred for Speed. His dam. l.ilydale. is by .Higgler and san- trys dam is by Jugglers brother Necromancer, both of them tremendously fast horses, as was Santry, a big, robust horse, which •■The Special Commissioner" had down at Cobbsvia in 1006. Spear Lance i- bj Spearmial and comes from a good racing branch of the No. 7 fsmily, but from what I have seen of the get of Spearmint 1 should say they are, as a rule, built on too massive a scale to race with arach ■OtCfS over our cramped American courses. Words of Wisdom presents a most attractive pedigree, espeeiaUy bo t i American turfmen, for hi- grand. mi. Verdigris, is a sister to PastorelH, dam of the undefeated Colin. Cicero, sin- of Word* of Wisdom, was a Derby winner and of Bead Or descent in tail ma!-, and Bend Or horses have almost invariably done well In this country. Some One day. when his racing days are over. Words of WI* dean will command any amount of patronage a- a sire. For some time pant I have advocated the import.i-•tion of a few well bred English stallions, bur des| dti the golden opportunity few have found their waj across the Atlantic. However, it is no* only merely a matter of waiting, for ■oanc ■! these highly bred youngsters which bare been brought across are certain to race and will, of course, eventually find their w iy into the smd. to reinforce the rather Indifferent band which are now masquer-adins a- stallions in the blue gras~. Mr. Billings and his discriminating buyer are to !..• congratulated n having secured suck a well bred band out of wh eh some really high lass race horses are sure t be develop i. Ike youngsters, with their mums ami breeding, .-re: All Star. eh. c by Buastar FaUiag Star, by Rightaway. Bachelors Hope, ch. c. by Tredennis Ladytown. by Gallinnle. Canterbury Tales. ,h. p. be Chaucer — Ena, by Ian Greek Legend, t . . by Polymelua — Kvadne, by Sidus. Grondy, eh. •. by Roqaclancc Prude, bv Meddler. Moratorium, ch. e, by Marajax — laverolle. by Gallinnle Omar Khayyam, eh. e, by Marco — Llama, by Per-aimmoe. Royal Writ. eh. e, bv Bel Herodr — Alphabet, by Galopin or Friars Balaam. Sanscrit !•. c. by Santrj l.ilydale. by Juggler. spear Lance, b. c, by Spearmint — Snoot, by Peri-gord. ■ Words of wisdom, b. e. by Cicero GeUnotte, by GaUlaulc.
