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REGARD FIRST FOALS WITH DISFAVOR In breeding circles there is a prejudice probably a most foolish one against first foals and many men never dream of putting their young mares to a high class stallion the first time while in addition to this it is a difficult matter to get maiden mares covered by fashionable stallions even if desirrd as many owners of sires are averse to employing them in this manner First foals to win the Derby only number five these being Daniel oRourke Favonius Rock Sand Spread Eagle and Wild Dayrell With the exception of the first and fourth of those named these were all racers of merit and Rock Sand which also won the Two Thousand Guineas and St Leger did extremely well as a sire prior to his all too early sudden death from heart failure when only fourteen at the BelElm Stud on July 20 1914 The pick of his offspring was Tracery winner of the St Leger in 1912 but he was Americanbred and I am onlv now dealing witli horses foaled in the United Kingdom Among other good horses of tin past which were first foals and many of whose names can be found in nearly all the latterday pedigrees may be instanced The Baron Best Man Catton The Colonel Dr Syntax Eager Filho da Puta Hampton Ion Kingston Liverpool Mel ¬ bourne Pot8os Sir Hercules Sultan and Touch ¬ stone Taking those dropped in the last twenty years that is from 1895 inclusive maiden mares have produced such as Auiadis Aldford Amoiireusc Aqiiascutum Atlas Attic Salt Bachelors Double Bo Very Wise Blackstone Bourne Bridge Branre peth Bridge of Canny Chili H Clerical Error Cressingham JJark Queen First Spear Glass Jug Glanapp Goblet Golden Gleam Greenback The Gnller Half a Glass Hanpver Square Huntly Lady Josephine La Marquise Light Brigade Lance Chst Lischana Maid of the Mist Marten Melet Mel pome Milford Lad Missel Thrush Oselle Powder Puff The Raft Ranetite Skyscraper SoninLaw Spanish Prince Spectrum Snowflight Throwaway Tippler TwclvelM re Violante Wooiey Wool Wind ¬ er and Yentoi besides of course many more of lesser note Audax in London Horse and Houud
