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+ — + ONE OF THE FILLIES WHICH MAY BRING MORE FAME TO CELT THIS YEAR By De. M. M. LEACH * -— , , j" . j ■ • . , . 1 Curiously enough, trood though the tWS-year aid colts of last racing season undoubtedly were, the Tillies, both as! and West, with few exceptions. Were decidedly niodeiate. The belles of the season were. .; course, Celandria and PUSS in Units. Neither of them, however, can he reckoned as quite high class, though Celandrias effort in tiie Walden Stakes, her haul appearance lor the year, was a distinctly good performance, and Puna in Loots could always be relied upon to display a high order of speed and managed to beat Dominant in the Hopeful Slakes at Saratoga. the stoutly-made Jacoba was tirst home in the Spina way and the ill starred Bumbi heat the Hopeful heroine later along in the racing season. Quite different form this to that displayed the preceding year by the undefeated Regret, the ecknowledgd champion of tiie east and the irrepressible Water- blossom, the queen .f the west. Now that raff in Loots is away to the other side of the broad Atlantic, with a view to taking her part in the New Oaks, it seems hardly necessary to deal exhaustively with either the per-. formaneea or pedigree of the handsome daughter of Peter Pan and Star Cal. Suffice it t say that speed, rather than stamina, is her forte, though taking a line through her halt sister, the sla.v Ing star Jasmine, some improvement may be looked for. In this respect, and I am sure the good wishes of all American sportsmen go with Mr. Fbx-hall Keeiie in Lis laudable attempt to duplicate his late fathers success Willi Cap and Hells tifteell years ago. FaUing Puss in Boots, it would appear that Celandria will have OUlj Jacobs and l.ambi to beat. Jacoba ran a good lill.V In the Spiiuiv.ay. then failil to score again, but the ill starred Bambl was apparently just coming into form when she conceded a pound and defeated Puss in Boots nl liinlico. and it was indeed cruel luck thai she should have been cut down when running forwardly fir the Juvenile Handicap a lew days later. JusL how serious is the nature of Datnbis injury 1 do not know, but hones which have had their tendons almost severed lave recovered fro a their injuries in a most astounding manner, old Bow ate sported a leg. which would have grated an elephant, was such a one. the case too. of star Jasmine appeared at one time absolutely hopeless, but everyone knows that Star Jasmine, winner of the Lalonia Cup. was never so good in her life as she was last back end. SO there must certainly be hopes for Bambis complete rcovery. Let us bops for the best at all events, for she is a good bred one. by McGee out of Hail Talbots old race mare Maude Gonne, daughter of The Commoner Eclipse to Herod mating again. However, even at her best. I take it that Lanibi is the inferior of harrier last year and was five times first to catch the Judges eye. However. Celandria was un-fortunate as to be twice disqualified. Celandrias Victories include the Clover Sakes at Aqueduct, the DemoiseBc Stakes at Belmont Iark and later along a handicap at Laurel. Her last race of the yi ar. the Walden Stakes. marked probably Celandrias crowning effort ami it was indeed unfortunate that the stewards found it necessary to deprive her of her hard earned laurels, for on in r performance in this race she can be made out nearly the equal of Colonel Venule, also a sufferer from adverse fortune .luring the running of the r.ue and quite the superior of Puss ill Lo is. xhe Walden Stakes is run over the full mile distance so that Celandria evidently stays well and weight does not step her. Judged on her Walden Stakes form. Celandria assuredly niiis| !„• ti.e best tilly of 1915. Quite well did 1 know that Celandria was a daughter of .-It and Adriana. daughter of the champion broodmare sire Hamburg, bin i! had slipped my memory that Adriana was a half-sister to that genuine little race Ik r e Goldsmith, and it was not until turning to the pages of the stud book that I was reminded that Adriana was oat oi KUdeer by Darebla. Extraordinary, or. rather I should say convincing, is it md. how freqaentlj this blending l the blood lines works out in the prod action of the best and iieetest of our race buses.- The further 1 delve into thoroughbred horse history, the more persuaded 1 am that this Mending of the three great lines of Herod, Matchem and Eclipse is tiie true secret of success in breed ing race horses. Something of this, from the pen oi so em bient an authority as "Vigilant of the London Soprtsman, appeared in the c.dumaa of the ; Dally Baring Form only a short while ago, and Mr. Id M orhouse also touches on this sabjei I in his "Melbourne" article in the most recent ; sue of the Breeders Bloodstock Review, ami. as is pretty generallj known by this time. I. myself, am constantly referring to the splendid results which have come IT in Ibis plan of mating. Indeed, at times. I tear my readers may become wearied at the const an I reiteration. However. 1 have no ae to grind, my ■ le aim ami object is to force our breeders to recognize and nnderstand the extreme value of this plan of mating, end thereby enhance their chances of success. The editor permitting, I propose, at no distant dale, to go more fully into this m st important matter and have already :;i hand data, which proves conclusively, to me at least, that the best of our racers, in fact the whole thoroughbred structure, is built up and kept up by the judicious intermingling of the three great strains the figures and all other theories notwithstanding. • Celandria. But to get back to base again. Here is Celaa-No less than fifteen limes did Celandria face the drias pedigree: , . I Hbuyar 2 I •I.,:,rm »■ j f „ Domino I llira II 1 ■* 1V" I Muusdo Cray » lai.piirer ■ l.oni Ymiinindo mi undo ,f- IS • * I , Usafa Q H I,r- l I Darebin 11 » »*£* " 1 Lmma C Liirlme 11 I | Cueoa J Wood n [ i Dell 1 ; , ileudew H [ , Speculum or i Speculum 1 I Amphion 12 1 Bothcrj ....22 i Ladylike E I Cfc. 18H i Hermit SB • -sj smtehte m "" : gS I Maid of Erin ! , Uca tellers DhlerK .- ! Ch. ISXi ] Lar.al.line 23 t salon 23 M . •f ■ « Mavourneen j Ballyroe i: « Cl1 1SSS I Cav.lene Asherl Vict at ..13 K Q* , Flora Macdonald ,.B 3*» i Hindoo 21 j Virgil 20 H I 2 I | Hanover 15 J I Florence II 1 wili ! _ . I *• 1883 l I.ourbon Belle ... » ■■""■ Scotland . .10 E 55 Hamburg . .2.T „n I t BBa l H * I ••• ls;r ....11 M I , , i FeOowcraft » Auslralian r „ lady Reel , Aerolite II li Bay 1886 i .7.7.v c, . War Dnpce ...23 II L Adriana ..28 "urhter Lecompte n 1 The leer - * Melbourne 1 M . Darebin II J i CtalneUI ■ lTs I.urline t Traducer 2 II KUdeer • I Merntald ■ L Lay lvss . r.,.,.r is * Lexington 12 11 I.011 Lanier j Levity ■ L Ch. 1ST.". ,...„, v iiardaway.. O nodore ....» H 1 Ke-lnioil II E— Eclipse. II— Ilcrod. M— Matchem. i - 1 ; E r 1 1 1 I I • 1 1 e t b i i- , I have always regarded Arthur Hancocks Celt as the most likely of all Commandos sons to meet with c nUnoed success as s stallion, even though his Virginia opportunities mav not be as great as if he was heated in the blue grass. At any rale. Celandria, her sister Coquette, Faddy Whack, Em broidery, etc.. are g«"d enough 1o go on with, and there are certain to be better things in store, and now that Mr. Hancock has acquired another haras in Bourbon county, Kentucky, it gees without saying thai at some not far distant date Celt " a nana • "ast. will be returned to the state of his birth. Celt, unlike the majority of the sons or his Mre, Commando, i- a chestnut, and evidently takes his eoa I coloring fii in his dam. Maid of Krin. daughter of that line race horse, the chestnut Amphion. wli se coloring is an inheritance from his dam. Suicide, daughter of the chestnut Derby winner. Hermit. i .Its dam. Maid of Erin, is. of course, half-sister to the lying Voter, ami their dam is Mavourneen. by tin- saviour of tin- bouse of Matchem to England, the unbeaten I.arcaldine. Commandos dam. Emma .. was a daughter of the Australian-bred Darebin. Celt, therefore, shows ■ double strain of Matchem bh oil close up in his pedigree. • niinanilo was unusually well supplied with Her I -i!. mis. nis irrandam. Queans, was by Flood Herod i. i.is grandam Glendow was a daughter of Glengarry, s,,,, ,,t Tbormanby Uerod. and the next dam. Glenn e, was by Lexington Herod again i. and Lexington* mime again ii] | o ir- in Homins pedigree. No wonder, then, that Commando snece ded in such marvelous fashion, when crossed onto the imported Eclipse-bred Castleton mare-. Back of bis grandam Mavourneen, Celt is strongly furnished with Eclipse bh oil. Albert Victor, -ire of Gaydene, i- a double Eclipse, as is Scottish Chief, -in- of 11 i i Macdonald. The family line to which Celt tracis on the dams side is the famous Sunflower branch of the No. 1 family from which conic Peep oDay, the Australian champion Poai- tano. I.aveno. Orveito and any number of the lust ran- horses which have achieved fame in all parts of the wi rid. Adriana is what nwy be termed American bred and is a member of the old-time Dance family, a family established by the gray Gallopade, which was imported into Canada as far back as ls.",0. and afterwards acquired by James Jackson of Alabama. Gallopade foaled Fandango and Cotillion to Hie cover of Leviathan and had besides six foals by Glencoe. The iir t four of tiuin were grays, like their dam. but the last two. Quadrille and Hornpipe, t ok alter their sire as to coloring. It is from the Cotillion branch of the family that Celandria is descended. No family st.K.d higher In the early dsys than this Galh |iade line Fandango, BeeL Hornpipe, Blgndoon, Fanny Wells, Mr. Ten Br ecks Prioress, Lecompte. Starke. War Dance and count 1 ss other great winners « • from it, and a coupli or more decades ago Correction, Domino and Hamburg n re carrying all before them on the Amcrl can turf, but of late years the family has not been in such repute as in the days that are gone, and it is refreshing to And the old blood springing up again with two such lly.-rs as Coquette and Celandria. KUdeer, grandam of Celandria. was herself a flyer in lc-r day and was by Darebin. so that we have here ni less than four Strong strains of Matchem blond, si moihinv quite unusual, coming in. in this pedigre... two by way of Darebin, and one each through Barcahllne and Australian, sire of Fellow-craft, sire of Lady BeeL, dam of Hamburg. Whatever Celandrias racing fortunes may turn out to I*- this year, her paddock value is at once i bv :. us and 1 cannot Imagine a mole desirable mate for some Eclipse-1 1, imported hone. I. for on.-, should oxiwcl soiuethinu quite of the first rating. VW all know what Kin da It. did bv Oriiy and St. Prusquin, and Celandria Plight give an equally god account of herself. At bast, her I bre ding suggest! il.
