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MOTOR COP A STRIKING EXAMPLE Product of Cartfully Wrought and Well Proved Breeding Theories — Not Mere Lucky Chance. A. K. MacomlMTs good three-year old bay Celt, Motor Cop. furiishes a striking oxamph" f whit may. hi- accomplished by patient, thoughtful and intelligent errort on the part or It fail ■ who have lurried thflr attention especially to the product ion. rather than the development and training of r.ic horses. or course on" branch of the sport is largely dependent upon tiie other, for the £, nth-mau ..•!,,, s nds good race hanea to the post cciild not do 1, without the intelligent effort," of the breeder- .,f thorougl.breds who furnishes the neees-ary supply.- Motor Cop was not the Btedact of "mere hap hazard an eiling. hut that of putting into pr.ictie.. of carefully wrought out and well proved breeding theoiies. He was not the result of a shaglrhaadpd errort on the part of one breeder, but rather V,,.-product of intelligent enterprise on the part of two or more breeder-, who wen- working along the sam.. lines and whose work happily fused into a sue. session of results which already have done BMaMl for the improvement of tiie American face horse, and which promise to accoiuolish much more in the Meat futur". It will be admitted on all hands that Motor Cop has proved himself a really wonderful colt, not alone by brilliant performances, but by overcoming misfortunes, or rather a misfortune, which would have perman-ntly laid a less game or highlv-bii-.| colt perinaiuiitlv 011 the shelf, in his initial effort as a two -year old. The first time be started he won. but immediately afterward went so Badly amiss that he did not go to the post again in his two year-old form. Of coins*, if Walter Jennings had not been a past master as a trainer, and if Dr. McCuUey bad not been possessed or altogether extraordinary skill as a veterinary surge-on. the colt would not have heca able to come back again as a three year-old : but at the s: nie time neither the best el trahw rs nor the iHst of veterinarians could have brought back anything short or a loyally bnd colt or 1111-riinchiug ganieiiess and grand constitutional vigor. Had not Motor Cop beta a rn lily-bn-d colt, in hcriting from royally -bred •afhaan Jaat tlnce qualities which distinguish the purely Med race lior-e from all other typea, he would have gene into the discard during tin- season or 1917. And now for the why ami tin- wherefore: MADDEN BUYS STAB SHOOT. John K. Madden, or Hamburg Place, alway-. seems to have his wits about him when dealing with matters relating to the breeding of race apnea and possibly this Eact never was more iu rvtd nee tfiao when he bought Star Shoot, althaaga be had to pay a high price for him. The bite John Muggins hail Star Shoot in his stable when he was preparing the late W. C. Whitneys leased celt. Voh,d.vovski. and when they were in their two Tear-eH year he rated Star Shoot as clearly the Better colt" of the two: but Star Shoot was disqualified |,v the death of his owner before racing the starter aa a IhClC year-old and Volodyovski proved good enough to win the Derby. This of itseir was a good certificate of character for Star Shoot, and then Mr. Madden liked bis breeding, he nein,- by the great Isinglass -Astrology, by Hermit. Star Shoot had come to tiiN country and it did not take Madden long to buy him and install him as premier sire ,,t Hamburg Place. While Star Shoot still was a young horse, only six years old. he was bred to The Niece, a daughter af that wonderrnlly fast miler. Alarm, bv Kclipsc — Maud, by Stockwell. and Jaconet, a daughter of Leamington and that wonderful old br Hslmare. Mag gie It. 15. The result of this union was the wonder-* fully fast and game colt. Inch, which was a sensa tional two-year-old. S. C. Hildreth pennw— chag him the fastest colt of that age that evet came into his hands. Inole went to Franco, but when he was offered at the dispersal sale of the late Mr. Kohlers thoroughbreds, another thoughtful and shrewd Ameri can breeder was on hand t buy him ami bring him home. This was Incles present owner. W. P.. Miller, who. while highly appreciating tli value of Star Shoot, reached the conclusion that it was the commiii.ling of the blood of that horse with that of Maggie it. It. and Leamington through Jaconet, which was to be credited witli Incles greatness. PREFERENCE FOR MAGGIE B. 2. BLOOD. It had been concluded by this time that the Maai of Maggie l-.. It. would nick with any other slrain. while Mr. Miller showed a strong preference for mares rich in Maggie It. It.s Maai for iu -breeding to I ncle. Xarco, by O. W. Johnson, a s-m of Iroquois, by Leamington — Maggie 15. P.. was bred to Code and the product was this grand colt Motor Cop. aMril goes back to Maggie P.. P.. in the fourth gem ration IhroMgh bath sin- and dam. A tabulation of Motor Cops pedigree to an extreme of only five gem rations back, will show a wealth of winning strains of which any colt miu-hl well l»-proud. In the male line through his sire he readies Isinglass in the third generation. He goes to Maggie It. It. in the fourth generation through both sire and dam. one through Jaconet ami once through her disiinguisl.eil brother. Iroquois, the only American bred winner of the Kpsom Derby. Through the same lines and in the same generation lie runs to Leamington, a great horse and a wonderful sire of winners, among which might hi mentioned Leapt-rellow. Kiniuirer. Parole. Aristides. Iraejaaia, Spin away and a host or extremely high-class horses too numerous to mention. Through his dam Xarco. Motor Cop goes back to Rotherhill in the third generation aai to Lord CliMen in the rourtb. and through Xarca this colt also goes back through G. W. Johnson, which was the sensation of bis year, and throu::h his dam. P.ruuette. to P.onnie Scotland, which, a it r hiving s|Htit the best years of his life on an obscure firm in Ohio, came down to P.elle Meade, Tiaa., ami sired such racing wonders us Luke Il ickhurn. Bl— Me, P.arrett. Ooorge Kinney. Beurhwa P.elle the dam of Hanover, and for a eaaaMerahla time stood at the head or American winning -ires. BONNIE SCOTLAND PREPOTENT SIRE. Desides this, the prepotency or the I.onhie Scotland strain is substantially testiried to by the successes of his sons and their progeny. • pec-ally in the Itramble line, which in successive gcncrattaaa has given lo the American turT P.en Itrusli. Proom stick and Whisk Bream 11.. not to name othec Bach great ones among the get f Itrooinstiik as Sweeper, a highly successrul ai-l fashionable sire 1.1 Trance, while among the sires got by P.rnniM ■•. HteaNj cannot Im- overlooked, an. I besides BBaaaaati k ami others. Pen Prush get the peed race barM ami sire Delhi. Thus it will lx- seen that in Motor Gen-** P ligree, not only great race horse sires :iiul predaciBC dams or ran- excellence have place, but they ..lie of winning and producing lines which continue !- win and pro-luce winners, generation after g.-n-r: i «n. Incidentally it may Im- mentioned that in f i ■ ■ tiftb generation. Motor Coo gm-s Iwick to St-- kwell through his sire. Im h and to Vandal, thnn.li his dam. Xaro. and ben- again two Cloneee trains unite, for Vandal was a son of il.neoe. a-- I the dam r Stockwell, Pocahontas, was a daugn er oT Cloncm-. Like the cross of Leamington upon Maggi-- !•• It., which produced bath IriMpiois and J-iconet. Hi cmss or lr M|iiois upon P.rum-tle. by P.ounie Scotland produced 1 wo wonderfully peed aaea, for i. W Maai bad an elder brother. Huron, which raa second to His Blajbaeaa bat the .Futuritv of MM, rinishing in front of such a giMMl Hlly as Y-eUille I telle, but for some technical reason concerning his eligibility. Ilur-ii was ignored as a starter BJ the Coney Island .IcM-kcy Club, and Yorkville I.-lle. which finished third, was accorded the pace. New York Sun.
