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1 j . i t :i a 1 1 J v j I1 J. I1 1 I I V V 1, STOCKWELLS MALE LINE FLOURISHING. On looking through the list of winning sires of the present season, it becomes evident that the male line of Stockwell has been doing wonderfnllv ,IS y,i,r IolymiIiis. one of his descendants via I 1, end Or. headed the list of winning stallions, and he Is again prominent being second in regard to value of races won to another member V, u"my Ifadinm. AVhen it is considered that Radium was out- of the last crop of foals got by Bend Or, and that the latter was twentv-five years old when mated with Taia. the fact speaks volumes for the potency of the Duke of Aestm, listers 1SS0 Derby winner. It is seldom indeed that so old a stallion as Bend Or was at the time, ho sired Radium is capable or begetting colt of such class and constitution, one more over, which since he retired to the stud in p.llKI, has distinguished himself as a sire of stavers. Radiums chief winner this season is Clarissimus whose victory iu the Two Thousand Guineas was full of merit, and although that race, of course, was only a mile he may yet show that lu; has inherited the slaying qualities of his sire. His defeat by Figaro for the Newmarket Stakes can be disregarded, for he was by no means himself, showing untiring like the fire and dash be displumed a fortnight earlier in the Two Thousand. PolymoliiK, the second iu the winning list, de. ds chiefly 01, the Derby and Oaks heroine, Klfinella, for his position, not forgetting Poimnern. Winner of last years Two Thousand. Noy Derby, and substitute St. Leger. Polymelia feat of sir lug two kui sslvo lieiby winners, y the wax, hud been ticcoiiiplltihcd on uuiiioroim oecublona, thu last stallion which previously did the trick bein" Cyllene sire of Iolymelus with Minora and Lem-berg. Hampton accomplished a similar feat in the Hte "eighties" by aid of Merry Hampton and Ayrshire, and a few years earlier Hermit Avas credited with two Derby winners running in Shot-over and St. Blaise, as was Parmesan before him with 1 avonius and Cremorne. At a much earlier period seven other stallions begot the Derby winners of two years in succession, but it need only bo noted here that one of them, Waxv. did so twice, being, iu fact, responsible for four Derby winners in seven years. Returning to the sires of he hue pf Stockwell. there are eight or them In the Hrst eighteen, and all of them trace back to the great sou of The Baron and Pocahontas through Bend Or. Although tin Stockwells have annexed three of this seasons classic races, they failed to capture the One Thousand. Fifinella being beaten for that race by Canyon, whose Hire. Chaucer, is a son of St. Simon. Chaucer stands third iu the winning list, mid another descendant of St. Simon iu Fugleman sire of the Irish Derby Winner, lurore comes fourth, with other St. Simon line stallioiis In General Symoiis nnd Desmond lotli dead also In the first eighteen. Of the remaining leading sires Roqueliiutv mill Dark Ronald are tail-mule descendants of Hampton Newinlnster line, while Sundiidge and Sunstar belong to the Speculum family. All the stallions mentioned h-long to the male lino or Eclipse, The rival houses of Matchem and llerod have each one representative Iu the Tint eighteen, Marcovll being n mem-her of the Mutcheu, family tracing back through HiiiYiihlhie ud Itol Ueiodo holm; u descendant of I llerod, via Thommuhy, London Sportsman,
