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STOUT BREEDING OF GAINSBOROUGH Two Thousand Guineas and New Derby Hero Descendant of Hardy Stayers. There are several reasons why Gainslioroiigli should lie a stayer, apart from flic fact that he is a son of Bayardo. which won the Ascot Cup in the most brilliant style imaginable. His dam, Roscdrop. stayed well — of that there is no question, or she would not have beaten Willonyx for the Great Yorkshire Stakes, when she was penalized six pounds. Much of her stamina was probably derived from her maternal grandsire. Trenton, but it should be remembered that, individually, Roscdrop shows none of the Trenton ty| o, nor yet does she in the slightest degree recall her paternal grandsire. St. Simon. She is a big, substantial, palish chestnut mare, rather on the coarse ide, with somewhat gummy fore joints. , Her color .may be due to St. Frus-quins dam. but in general character she is neither a St. "Frusquiu nor a Trenton. Strangely enough, too, she comes of a rather small breed on her dams side. Rosaline dam of Rosedrop was discarded by Morton as a two-year-old because he thought her too small to be worth training. Her dam. Rosal.vs. by Bend Or. was also a little mare, which Simons Harrison bred from Rosa May. a mare he bought in 1S91 from Lord Rodney because he particularly fancied her breeding. Rosa May 1887 was by Rosicrucian — May Queen, by Claret, her dam. Lady Blanche dam of Lilian, by Voltigeur. Rosa Mays stock were all on a small scale, but we fiiil in the Lady Blanche tap-root a substantial contributory to the stamina of her descenant. Gains-borongh, for Lilian, daughter of Lady Blanche, was a rare stayer, and one of the hardiest and best constitutioned mares that ever ran. Moreover, she bred an excellent stayer in Savile. though her labors on the turf probably diminished her usefulness as a broodmare. LORD FALMOUTHS VIEW. The late Lord Falmouth, however, wrote on February 1, 1884: "Lilian was not overworked and was as s und as a bell when I took her out of training. She weut to the stud in the prime of life, nine years old. No one can tell whether Lillil.ulleio her son is good or bad. for, b-ing il large, heavy colt, he has never been fit enough to show his form." It is to Ik- observed here that Lili.in had slipped foals in her first two seasons at the stud and Lillibullero turned out no good; but Savile. foal-d when the mare was fifteen years old, was right enough and he was by Hampton. Gainsborough represents the tail-male line of Hampton on the female line of Lady Blanche dam of Lilian, as did Savile, and this is breeding which tends strongly to stamina. The family is of the No. I figure and it has certainly gained great distinction now through Rosedrop and her son Gainsborough, which, it may be added, is a perfect temiH-red horse, not to Is- unset by anything. It is to be regretted that Rosedrop has not proved more prolific. She was barren to Bayardo in her first season, 1913; in 1914 she produced La Tosc;k a nttle filly by Bayardo, and in 191o came Gaiusliorough. In 1915, however, she was again barren to Bayardo and it is said that she has again missed to him. She is. however, only eleven years old now, so there is ample time for her to make Kood the wasted years and it may be hoped we slmll see her mated in the future with ;ay Crusader. She is n- w the property of John Seott, and she visited Polyinelus in MM, but we are not told as vet in the published records whether or not she had a foal by him in 1917.— "Vigilant" iu London Sportsman. a
