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KINGSTON AS SIRE OF BROOD MARES GREAT AMERICAN RACE HORSE AND SIRE HAS SO FAR FAILED IN PRODUCING MOTHERS OF RACERS THE REASON IS A MYSTERY By EXILE No more reliable, versatile or better mannered horse has raced on the American turf than Kingston, winner all told of eighty-nine races, always in first-class company, under heavy imposts, and over distances varying from five-eighths to one and three-quarters miles. Kingston only started three tinies in his first season on the turf, but the following year, in addition to other races, he ran seven times during the month of October and won all seven i aces. As a four-year-old .Kingston, among other notable feats, one clay dead-heated with Yum Yum, and the next was back to baat the Suburban winner Terra Cotta. The following year Kingston won fourteen out of his fifteen starts, and was at it once more as a six-year-old, losing only one race, his first time up at Saratoga. Still going strong at seven, Kingston won fifteen races, six in a row, ,out of twenty-one starts. Increasing age did not appear to dull his edge, and as an eight-year-old the brown was first home in thirteen out of twenty races, and was again returned a winner at nine. Something of a record, I should say this, and one which makes one wonder what those who these days cry out concerning overdone horses would say to the appearance of another Kingston. There is one thing, however, never to be lost sight of in dealing with Kingstbnscareer as a race horse, and this, only three times did he start as a two-year-old. What better argument, together with the three-year-old career of Sir Barton, is there that the great majority of our horses are ruined by an overdose of racing in their colthood days. Even this "before the mast" time of it, to which, when racing Kingston was subjected, did not stop the gallant son of Spendthrift from quickly attaining to success as a sire. He topped the list in 1900, the year that the Futurity winner Ballyhoo Bey ran for him. Again, ten years later, did Kingston finish the season at the head of the poll, the Futurity winner Novelty, now in far away Brazil, his main contributor. By the way, 1900 was Kingstons banner sire year, for, besides Ballyhoo Bey on this side, there was Kings Courier going great guns in England, winning as a three-year-cld five out of his six starts, in one of which, the two miles Doneasier Cup, he beat Merry Cl iarid the Oaks winnt-rTritDche. Kings Couric.;was, ! take it, the best stayer ever got by Kingston, for Kings Courier added greatly the following season to his already enviable reputation by beating the Ascot .Gold Cup winner Santoi for the two and one-quarter miles Jockey Club Cup. A genteel, finished horse was Kingston. I knew him well in his Castleton days, and only in one thing did he disappoint me. As are Hastings and Lamplighter, so is Kingston a son of the Matchem sire Spendthrift and, moreover, all three of them are sons of Eclipse-bred mares. Believe me or not, as it may please you, the blending of the blood plan of mating is ever a winner. Neither Kingston nor Lamplighter, it would appear, has sired a sen capable of carrying on the lina. Most fortunately, however, Hastings in Fair Play got at least one son to worthily represent him and save the Australian line from extinction. Kingston did not disappoint me because no son qf his. lias proved worthy as a sire, but he has disappointed me in so far as I anticipated better success for his daughters as brood mares. Did I not tell you some time back that brood mare sires are the ones easy to guesand? I fear I have missed my guess, for as yet Kingstons daughters have bred nothing of the top class. Even that good race filly, the well-bred Levity mare Admiration, the racing superior of May Hempstead, is, as far as I know, a failure as a brood mare., The Ladys best is Irish Gentleman. Anna Bain is the dam of Pif Jr., a Latonia Cup winner, it is true, but by no means a first rater. Bandelb is the dam of a whole tribe of winners, but no real horse among them. Coy Maid bred Coy Lad and from Fatty came Aristocracy, which, had he lived, might have shown high class form as a three-year-old, and all this makes one vonder what fate holds in store for the 4,500 Tsarina yearling. Everything about Kingston suggested brood mare sire success. Of Matchem descent, supplied on nis sirss side, with both Lexington and Glencoe blood, taking in the stout strains of Touchstone, Stockwell and Brutandorf through his dam Kapanga, backed by additional Matchem through Dr. Syntax, Jerry and Melbourne, wherein lies Kingtonss fault as a brood mare sire? Surely he looked the part. His daughters are of feminine quality and speedy. The only flaw, as I see it, in Kingstons make up for brood mare success, lies in a certain deficiency cn his dams side of the Herod strain. It is not too late, however, to. remedy this by breeding a few of his daughters to the best Herod horses obtainable. The offspring from such unions if fillies will be of positive value as brood mares. Melbourne 1 Humphrey Clinker .... 8 M west Austriliin Australian 7 j Daughter of Cervantes 1 H bay, 1850 jlowerina ., i Tonone 14 E West Young EmiRus.. ci Emuius 28 e "Emilia Shoveller E f - - I j Persian J Whisker ; 1 E a s I Variety 11 M J .-5 . TexlniTtnn 1" Boston 40 J -fTimoleon H , ,- r Lexington l- , sister to Tuckahoe .. .40 H ierollte 1S" I Alice Carnenl .... "Sarpedon 13 E S I. iactoihc Rowena 12 II wog chestnut, 1S021 , "Glencoe 1 j Sultan 8 H S3 I " "I Floriue J Trampoline 1 E g - j Melody J Medoe 12 II 02 I tRudrilphs dam H g ? , . . t Touchstone 14 J Camel 24 E 2 A f -N!W1,nnster S Banter 14 E M , Victorious ..3 b:lJ. 1848 Beeswing j Dr. Syntax 37 M in,- " Daughter of Ardrossam. II co J-yJ i-n S ""J, Jeremy Diddler.. 3 j Jerry 155 M os I Daughter of J I Marpessa .. 3 E L j Daughter of ...... J Voltaire 12 E 1 I Daughter of Blucher ... E S ..I The Baron 24 J Birdcatcher 11 E f Stockwell ., 1 Kchidna 24 E 7 , , chestnut. 1819 1 Pocahontas J "Glencoe 1 H L Kapnnda ...13 I . Marpessa 3 E bay, 18il I i Melbourne 1 j Humphrey Clinker S M L Adelaide .. J I Daughter of Cervantes 1 II I Daughter of . J Brutandorf S E I Esmeralda 13 II Imported. fNo family number.
