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PROGRESS OF ROI HERODE IN THE STUD Sire of The Tetrarch Scoring Further Successes of Merit in Racing in England EnglandMarked Marked attention has been recently called to Roi Hcrode by the notable double event of Irish Derby and Irish Oaks secured bv two of his progeny viz King John and Judea and it would l e ridiculous now to underrate him as many were beginning to do because he iHd not soon show us another son equal to The Tetrarch It is a strange fact that great success at the outset of a stud career posl lively handicaps a stallion if he the following sea ¬ son or two does not live up to the standard which he has himself created However alls well that ends well in the case of Roi Horode and it may be added that another threevearold son of his Prince Philip would probably have beaten even King John for the Irish Derby had not an accident pre ¬ vented his being trained for that race Prince Philip is a gray colt by Roi Herode Siintee by Santoi her dam Castle Queen by Deuce of Clubs Patent by Barcaldinc and his breeder and owner Mr Kennedy thought him quite up to English Derby form That he was the best twoyearold colt in Ireland last year is fairly certain AVith the prob ¬ able continuance of Roi Herodes successes and the immense demand for tlie services of his son The Tetrarch not to mention what Kildare II has al ¬ ready done by siring Trespasser one of the best twoyearold colts of this year we may take it for granted that there will l e a great increase for some years to come in the proportion of good gray horses seen on the tiirf and it will all have been due to the exportation years ago of the gray mare Gem of Geis to France where she in due time was mated with Atlantic and produced her famous gray son Le Sancy Jem of Gems derived her color from her sire Strathconan She was a daughter of Poinsettia by Young Melbourne Lady Hawthorn sister to Thonnanby The mating with Atlantic son of Thormaiihy was thus well calculated to pre ¬ serve the merits of the Alice Hawthorn family familyHEROD HEROD BLOOD PROVING ITS POTENCY POTENCYThe The gray color passed on to Le Samarifain and through him to Roi Hcrode whose dam Roxelane was a granddaughter of Rouge Rose by Thonnanby so that this blood was still further strengthened It is an important feature of Roi Herodes pedigree that he combines the famous Eaton mares Clemence and Rouge Rose the former as the grandam of his sire and the latter of his dam Tims whatever we may think about the dam of Bend Or she is unquestionably in Roi Herodes pedigree as also is Doncaster whose daughter Clementina daughter of Clemence was the dam of Le Kamaritain Cliarly then a good way to mate Roi Herode was to give him n return of I5en Or blood This was done in the case of Aahrcn by Bona Aista son of Bend Or and she produced The Tetnirch In Aahrens pedigree moreover there arc two close lines of Macaroni through the dams of I5ona Aista and Hagioscope These were likely to nik with the Macaroni in Roi Herodes dam which was a grand ¬ daughter of Galliard son of Mavis by Macaroni Probably however the most potent reason for the speedy success of Roi Herode as a stallion is that our bloodstock was being positively starved for lack of male lines of Herod blood and the triplicated Thonnanby with Macaroni backing which Roi Herode offered was gnitefullv absorbed at once like water in a desert Kildare II the sire of Trespasser is a gray horse by the same sire as Roi Herode and like him has led off with a good twoyearold son though not a gray one He is a son of Royal Request by Royal Hampton her dam Aespers by St Simon La Cloche by Uerniit He was a good horse on the turf winning during five seasons so that he must be exceptionally sound The reiiitroduction of this male line of Thonnanby with the gray combination is likely to start a new epoch in tiie development of the British thorough ¬ bred just as did the coining of Galopin and his son St Simon Roi Herode is at the present time only fourteen years old and The Tetrarch is but seven so they have the world before them Kil diire II was foaled in 1907 It is a pity that the Gladiator Flying Dutchman and Glencoe male lines have not been maintained in England but they live among us through Queen Mary Flying Duchess and Pocahontas respectively London Sportsman
