Noted Stallion Star Shoot Dies: Attack of Pneumonia Brings End of the Sire of Sir Barton, Daily Racing Form, 1919-11-20

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. NOTED STALLION STAR SHOOT DIES ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA BRINGS END OF THE SIRE OF SIR BARTON AND OTHER CELEBRITIES Dispatches from Lexington announce that the famous sire Star Shoot died of pneumonia at John E. Maddens Hamburg Place at 1 :45 p. m. yesterday. Star Shoot was considered about the best of his year when a two-year-old in England in 1900, but was injured and could do nothing effective when a three-year-old, starting twice and running unplaced on both occasions. He was sold at that age for export to this country. A grandly-bred young horse and a son of one of the greatest race horses that ever wore a bridle. Star Shoot was acquired by John. E. Madden and has long reigned as the premier sire of his widely known Hamburg Place Stud. There he was given the pick of that establishments wonderful band of carefully selected brood mares, the preference being fully justified by results. He has sent into American racing scores of fleet, hardy and enduring racers of both sexes, and in the long run is bound to exert a profound influence on our bloodstock breeding. Including this year Star Shoot has been five times the premier sire of the United States, to match which record one has to go as far back as the days when Glenelg was also five times the leader. It is one of the singularities of his stud career that by far the best racer he has ever sired Sir Barton made its appearance when Star Shoot was blind and in old age, as horse life goes. He was foaled in 1898, and bred by Captain Eustace Loder as the result of mating the Hermit mare. Astrology with the mighty Isinglass. The first of Star Shoots progeny appeared in our racing in 1905, and including that year the tabulation following shows what his big arid steadily growing family has done in American racing up to and including November. 1. It is a wonderful record: Year. Starts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 190o .. 108 18 14 15 Gl 3,855 1906 . . . .t!ttrrrrr.!?!Tt :T.v.::: 323 and",5p" 33 : iss 52,193 1907 570 95 71 79 325 96.521 1908 627 114 91 90 332 59,727 1909 , 711 139 101 102 369 71,435 1910 601 91 80 83 347 53,509 1911 .; 703 103 96 116 388 53,895 1912 775 126 106 117 426 79,973 1913 953 126 134 131 562 68.497 1914 1,222 167 157 152 746 95,987 1915 . 1,203 151 157 159 736 87,983 1916 1,429 216 .214 200 799 138,162 1917 1,147 167 150 193 637 131,674 1918 711 97 86 102 426 87,795 1919....:... 614 98 89 78 349 184,426 .: Totals 15 .11,697 1,763 1,596 1,650 6,688 81,274,832 To and including racing of November i.


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