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NOTED MARE AND HER OWNER PJlarions Stud Success Brought Fame to Theodore Winters Emperor of Norfolk El Eio Key Keyand and Yo Tambien Testimony Testimonyof of Her Greatness Theodore Winters of Reno Nev was a Ms man Ixxlily quite imposing in appearance in fact He was also exceedingly lucky as a breeder in a small way which at the same time was a large way in re ¬ sults Joseph Cairn Simpson formerly wellknown personally and as a writer of turf stories ami breed ¬ ing theories hero in Chicago had emigrated to Cali ¬ fornia some time in the seventies He took some horses out with liim l oth trotters and thorough ¬ breds Among them was a thoroughbred mare by the ISonnie Scotland horse Malcolm Her name was Marion and in time she became the i roi erty of Theodore Winters Mr Winters was a man of no ¬ tions and one of his pet notions was that the Trnckee Valley in Nevada was as well adapted to the raising of the thoroughbred horse as any of the favored and more fashionable sections of California Of course the native sons laughed this idea of his to scorn but Marion was a peerless brood mare and enabled him to turn the laugh the oilier way In this he took great joy as lid also Joseph Cairn Simpon and the latters intimate Chicago friend Killy Boyle BoyleIt It is only fair to say however that before making his home in Nevada Mr Winters had carried on breeding at his El Arroya Stud in the Sacramento Vsley California and Marions first produce made its appearan 5etuirevruaiI e crossed the Sierras i into Nevada and established his new farm it was dubbed the Rancho del Sierra Stud From other mares than Marion he bred horses that won and some of them were quite good race horses Hut Marions sons and daughters were of such surpassing excellence that it was due to them almost exclusively that Mr Winters won fame in the east as a breeder It will come as news to many that Marion was a nitive of Cook Countv Illinois yet such is the fact She was foaled at Mr Simpsons Atwood Place Chicago in 1871 This was probably in the present stock vards district Her daia was Maggie Mitchell by the foreignbred horse Yorkshire Marion was a granddaughter on her sires side of that other im ¬ mortal brood marc Queen Mary and like the latter was estremelv prolific She had thirteen living foals slipped iu 1880 and 1890 and has no Stud Book report for 1882 probably having been barren that year Marion raced twice at Dexter Park Chicago when a twoyearold running third to Carrie I and Three Cheers iu the Browns Stakes at a half mile July 4 1873 and winning two days later from Mary Rowett at the same distance So far as the records show she never raced afterward Just when Mr Winters bought her does not appear but it was probably in 187 At any rate she was bred to Norfolk in 187 and produced her first foal iu 1877 Tliis was a bay filly of which we have no record in after years the Stud Hook saying Sold to Oregon In order her subsequent produce was 187S Duke of Norfolk 1870 Duchess of Nor ¬ folk 1881 Prince of Norfolk 1S83 King of Nor ¬ folk 1884 Vera Queen of Norfolk 1885 Empeior of Norfolk 1880 Czar of Norfolk 1887 El Rio Key 1888 Key del Uey All of these were by Nor ¬ folk but this great race horse and sire having died her foal of ISSJ was the celebrated o Tamilian by Joe Hooker and all of her subsequent produce was by that sire To him she slipped in 1890 and dropped Yo El Rey in 1894 and Rev del Sierra iu lisas She died in 1893 and was in foal at Hie time timeNOEFOLK NOEFOLK MIGHTY EACE HOESE HOESEHer Her first mate Norfolk was a mighty nice horse and for all that anyone knows may have been the best sou of Lexington In the Jersey Derby at Paterson N J in 18H he easily defeated eleven of the best threeyearolds in America one of them being the famous horse Kentucky 11 A Alexander Norfolks breeder and owner had been pronounced extravagant when he gave 13000 for Lexington and nettled by such criticism predicted that in time he would sell one of Ixxingtons sons for a greater sum So when in 1854 Theodora Winters came east iu search of a race horse and made overtures for the purchase of Norfolk Mr Alexander made good as a prophet bv selling tile colt to him for 15001 There was then in California an extremely fast horse named Lodi a son of the foreignbred horse York ¬ shire Topaz and bred by John M Clay at Ashland near Lexington Ky Mr Winters was after the scalps of the Lodi people and taking Norfolk to California he took them in 1SC5 iu three bitterly contested races The first took place at faan Iran Cisco May JS over tiie Ocean House track It was for lirOO and a side bet of 000 each at two mile heats The first heat was a dead heat but Norfolk took the next two and the nice Their sec ¬ ond meeting was at Sacramento September 18 also it twomile heats and Norfolk won in straight beats September 23 the two came together at threemile heats over the Sacramento track It was a tremendous contest and to win Lodi forced Nor ¬ folk to run the two heats in 5 71i and 5li9Vj which remains the record for a race of threemile beats to this day In the two Sacramento races Norfolk was ridden by Dick Havey who but a few rears back was starting the horses over the San irancisco tracks That such a horse as N9r folk mated with such a brood mare as Marion should beget such an imiRrial horse as Emperor of Norfolk was simply a matter to IK expected expectedKverv Kverv one of Marions sons and daughters that vcre raced were good racers and three at least were first class they being Emperor of Norfolk El Uio Kev and Yo Tambien Emperor of Norfolk was hold to E J Italdwiu wb u a yearling and for him won twentyone races out of twentynine starts our own American Derby included He met ihe best horses of his time east and west and was winner of his last eight races as a threeyearold they being the Brooklyn Derby at Gravesend a han ¬ dicap the Bronx Stakes and the Spuyten Duyvil Stakes at Jerome Park the Swift Stakes at Steepshead Bay American Derby Drexel Stakes and Sheridan Stakes at Washington Park In money lie won 7l400 and was but four times unplaced El Hio Itey and Yo Tambien were introduced to rac ¬ ing by Mr Winters himself and he had a definite conviction that El Hio Itey was about the best race horse ever foaled In this he may have been entirely right although El Uio Itey only raced when a twoyearold He was a majestic colt a perfect model of symmetry and immense muscular jwwer 3Jr Winters brought him east in 1889 and starting him in seven races at St Louis Chicago and New York won them all He won the St rLouis Continued on second page NOTED MARE AND HER OWNER Continued from first page Hiewers Stallion Stakes at St Louis a purse the Kenwood Stakes and the Hyde Park Stakes at Washington Park and the Great Kclipse Stakes White Plains Handicap nnd Dunniow Stakes at Morris Park These races netted his owner 45835 In his purse race at Washington Park he stumbled and came so close to falling that his white face actually struck the track and was well discolored with dust when lie finally strode home victorious The big colt was in the American Derby of 1890 and the race was clearly at his mercy He waft brought here and was truly a magnificent young horse But he had an ailing foreleg and after hesitating for some time Mr Winters finally con ¬ cluded not to start him fearing a breakdown and not in the least fearing such opposition as he would have to meet if started The colt was not broken down In fact he worked a mile with 130 jxninds up one forenoon at Washington Park in a fraction slower than 138 then unheard of time But he was as the pupil of his eye to his adoring owner aiid so to make sure of an unbeaten record he was retired to the stud studYO YO TAMBIEN WELL REMEMBERED REMEMBEREDThere There are today here in Chicago thousands who remember Yo Tambien with her pretty mincing ways of nodding and bowing in response to the ripple of applause that always greeted her when cantering past the grandstand They also remember her tre ¬ mendous speed and dauntless courage in racing She was a twoyearold in 1891 and Mr Winters brought her east witli Dolly McCone Gallic Fergu ¬ son and some other youngsters which he raced over the Chicago tracks and after tlie Washington Park meeting was over took them to St Paul then an Important racing point Here his horses were not successful and partly because business affairs called pressincily for his presence In Nevada he concluded to sell them Harry White sent for Johnny Huffman who was then training the Ken ¬ dall Stable horses for Chris Smith and convinced him that a great bargain was in sight Chris Smith was then a highly successful plunger and the two had little trouble in persuading him to invest 20 000 iii their purchase Thus it was he became the owner of one of the best race mares of history and it was for him that she won all but about 5000 of the 89480 that fell to her in the course of her career on the track When a three year old she won fourteen out of sixteen races in which were in ¬ cluded the Tobacco Stakes at Latonia Garfield Park Derby at Garfield Park Drexel Stakes Boulevard Stakes and Great Western Handicap at Washington Park and the Twin City Derby Hahiliuc Stakes Twin City Oaks and Twin City Exnosition Stakes at St Paul In the Garfield Park Derby she gave one of the most remarkable exhibitions of indomi ¬ table gameness ever witnessed anywhere It did little but rain that spring and early summer and when the day for the decision of that 20000 race arrived the Garfield track was in as bad condi ¬ tion as it was possible for a race track to bo She carried 127 pounds and was opposed by eleven of the best colts in the west they being Wadsworth Azra Cicero Lew Weir Huron Wightman Notus Lomloun Itlitzen Falero and Galindo Weight and all she went out in the lead and resisting chal ¬ lenge after challenge led every yard of the way and won by a half length from Wadsworth with Azra which afterward won the American Derby third Some idea of the condition of the track may be de ¬ rived from the fact that it took this band of bril ¬ liant threeyearolds 240i to rim the ihilc and a quarter of the race raceMarions Marions daughters were pursued by the singular fatality of all being killed by accidents Even such a peerless creature as Yo Tambien was not spared she killing herself by running into a fence while at pasture and being pierced by a broken plank It is quite probable that Marion Avas the leading brood e of America in respect to the amount of money won by her produce they winning collectively the great sum of 204811 to which the contributors and their winnings were Yo Tambien 89480 Emperor of Norfolt 72400 El Kio Key 41835 Key del Key 33823 King of Norfolk 8827 Duchess of Norfolk 7700 Prince of Norfolk 3175 Duke Of Norfolk 1515 Vera 700 and Yo El Hey 350
