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STUD PROSPECTS OF H0URLESS HIS ANCESTRAL LINES SUGGEST HIS GREATEST CHANCE, FOR SUCCESS LIES IN MATING WITH MARES BY FAIR PLAY AND 0GDEN By EXILE The exact cause of the failure of so many St. Simon-Galopin horses as sires is not so easy In determine. As is well known, in times past a number of worthless as race horses members of the Galopin tribe were imported. Uninterrupted success as sires was not to be thought of for such, but at least an occasional good winner was to be expected. These sons and grand-.-ons of St. Simon, however, must, with one exception, be adjudged failures. Needless to add, the single St. Simon stud success is the hue Barney Schreibers good horse Sain. Galopin horses fared but little better, even though Galore sired Iiligrane and Ypsilanti, the latter racing with jrood success abroad. Alvescot. for the St. Simons, sired one good horse in Tree Lance, but Alvescot was by no means regular. I myself once owned a part interest in little Scorpion, which sired a couple of tough ones in John Yerkes and Larkspur. Bassetlaw sired only a few good winners; Masetto, lop-eared as he was, did better than most, and St. Andrew sired one good horse in Articulate. Little, however, can be said in extenuation of the failure of such as King of Coins. St. Evox. Greenan. Griffon. King Galop. Hawkswick, Sandringham. St. Avonicus, Simon Magus. Singleton. St. Simonian and the like. For the failures as sires of St. Simon horses there is no plausible explanation, except it , as Mr. T. C. McDowell once put it. "St. Simons dont fit h?re.- Why this should be so when they fit so well elsewhere is rather hart! to understand. France has had her Galliard. Simonian. Childwick. Perth, St. Damien; also on the Continent of Europe Ard Patrick and Matchbox have acquitled themselves honorably; in Australia Bill of Portland was a big success; P.isitano sired four winners of the Melbourne Cup; Grafton was a leading sire for a number of years, while Haut Brion and others could always be relied on to furnish many and good v. inners. In consequence more than usual interest attaches to he career of the Nursery Stud beginner, Hourless, as a sire. Negofol. sire of Hourless, won the Prix da Jockey Club, and is a member of the outside family No. 17. and this a family which never was able to gain much impetus, even though it is the family of Sovereign. Regalia, dam of Yerncr.il. and Zur. of Callistrate; the Australian Yattendon. the New Zcalander Sir Modred. and Macdonald II. In the old days, too, there was Pantaloon, dubbed, I bcliee. by the autocrat of the British turf. Admiral Rous, "the first gentleman of Europe," and it is on account of Pantaloon that the Le Sancy line is a going concern today. Childwick. sire of Negofol. was a really good stayer, beating Orme for the Limekiln Stakes as a three year-old and winning the Cesarewitch the following year. Childwick, in addition to Negofol. sired La Camargo, winner of the Prix de Diane and twice winner of the Prix du .onseil Municipal, and another winner of the Prix de Diane in Clyde, which was also runner-up to Finasseur for the Prix du Jockey Club and Grand Prix de Paris. Hour Glass, dam of Hourless. is one of those nonwinning good producing daughters of the leading brood marc sire of 1919, Rock Sand. Hautesse also proved unsuccessful on the turf and is a daughter of the One Thousand Guineas winner Hauteur, sired by the French Two Thousand winner Archiduc, son of Consul, a member of the extreme outside family No. 35. and this same Consul the male line ancestor of the one million francs winner Sardanapale. Hourless traces in the female line to that great race mare and producer Alice Hawthorn. What does the pedigree of Hourle.ss suggest as to the probabilities of his success as a r-ire? Is it for him to place the St. Simon line in the ascendants Hourless. as may be seen from a glance at his pedigree, is decidedly deficient in Matchem blood and to a less extent in Herod. Turf history tells us that the St. Simons scored best off mares in whose pedigrees wfli to be found a dash of Melbourne close up. St. Simon himself sired Persimmon, his brothers. La Fleche and her sister Memoir. St. Frusquin, all from mares having a near by cross of Melbourne. Desmond sired his best. The White Knight, son of Pella, 1 y Buckshot. Bill of Portland sired the Australian champion race horse and sire, Malster, dam Barley, daughter of Barcaltline. The only successful St. Simon line horse this country ver had. Sain, had for a dam The Task, by Barcaldine. St. Wolf, which has been going : trong of late as a sire in the Argentine, is by St. Frusquin, dam Wolfs Cry. by Wolfs Crag. son of Barcaldine. Surely, then, mares of Matchem descent should give quick and certain response to Hourless. Right in the next box at the Nursery Stud stands Fair Play, and his daughters, on account of their Matchem blood, must suit Hourless. Whether by accident fir design, I do not know, but the happy combination was found in breeding daughters of Rock Sand to Fair Play. It is therefore only reasonable to suppose that Hourless will accomplish much when daughters of Fair Play are chosen as his mates. Hourless being of St. Simon descent, and his Matchem deficiency well supplied by Fair Play and the outcross of Bend Or through Fairy Gold, splendid, and b99hioo the Hermit of Pauline is re turned to the Hermit of Devotion and Hermita. In hct. I am of the opinion that Hourless will succeed best when mated with mares of Matchem descent, and also hold to the opinion that daughters of Ogden and Oddfrllow fit him well. Ogden mares for Hourless, and why not ! Ogdens dam. Oriole, is by Bend Or, of which strain Houilua has none. There must be a reason for the preference of St. Simon for Matchem, and this I take to be the well known fire and excitability of Galopin is in a measure controlled by the more •dogmatic, less zealous blood of Matchem. Here is the nearly all Eclipse pedigree of Hourless: i nslsaln J v« lotte 1! Y. i st. Simon — 111 | Flying Daehees ;; li .Childwick ..in hrawa, 1881 | st A ,., ] Kiag Tasa 3 * I -J Adettae 11 II ■■*■ im i WeBhagtaaia . . . 8 i 9b"*to"*°8a SB i- ~ I Malaaaterie 1 | Aarieals 3K . 8 I Paetesa i Trocadero ZB f „ " ! i i.a Darette M l. roach. it l*-»* •-•MraToff ::::::::::::; !i 5- **«- J b"y- lssy I ■— IaSSL-:::::::::::: I „• chestaat, 188$ i hlaaan 19 J rtagaeiet IB V mil, use 5 g t Venire si. Oris S B 6 i Sainfoin 2 fOBriagfietd 12 ] St. Albans !I I O r i lridis la B| K -Bart Rand I caajataot, iss7 1 faasjaa Wenleek 4 I _•"• i Sauilal 2 E 3 fcrawa. 1888 st simi 11 n i Galea** SB B| I ■ iehf J »£ Aagela 11 K |a , /st. Margaerite. . . . i HenaH .. h L 3 . i • Dvotion 4 E ~-t Consul : o l»nar.,ii.- H I bi f ArchMac l - Uui L-1 " ■ ga llantesse ii. ! | IhaAhhess J Atheratnae ll ■ £ I . i Coarcat 1 E brown, ls.H . i Bcadanaa 13 K ,lu m,ul ,, r- i lies eriu lan •» - l II -lutein- Madame EkIoiiI im- ... ."■ II | Bawtharadals .... J Kettledrum ... 3 E i I Litdy Alice Hawthorn. 4 E
