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SIRE PROSPECTS OF PETER PAN GREATER SUCCESS THAN HE HAS ACHIEVED AS YET PREDICTED FOR HIM IN THE FUTURE IF MATED WITH MARES OF ST. SIM0Nt BEND OR, OR HAMPTON BLOOD By EXILE Judged on his merits as a race horse, Peter Pan was nigh unto top class. Thrre is, however, one bird on his escutcheon which cannot well be explained away, and this his defeat by the ugly duckling Frank Gill in the running of the Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes as a three-year-old in 1907. Well do I remember watching the race from the topmost tier of the Sheepshead Bay grandstand. Peter Pan was afforded every chance, taking up the running on the collapse of the Futurity winner F]lectioneer ; but it was not to be. Frank Gill was a running horse that day, and Peter Pan failed even to gain a situation. Of cours?, Frank Gill was an in-and-outer. died from heart affection, if I remember rightly, but was a great rorse on Jockey Club Stakes afternoon. Peter Pan subsequently went on to redeem his some-•vhat tarnished reputation, and won well over S100.000 during his turf career. As a sire Peter Pan has succeeded quite well, without at all setting the Thames on fire. Black Toney, his son, raced creditably; Castleton in England put in some good work, and iVnnant won the Futurity*. Last year Peter Pan had out the Alabama Stakes and Realization v..nner Vexatious, and I do not believe the best has as yet been seen of Peter Pan as a sire. Only a few weeks ago I was afforded an opportunity of looking the horse over at Mr. Whit-neys place, and can truthfully say I never have seen him looking quite so well; his coat, though it was then mid December, glossy and shining as in June; a big horse; surely one possessed of a powerful, massive frame, unfortunately adorned by a somewhat homely head. Is it by the way of Peter Pan. I wonder, that the line of Dominp is to carry on? Black Toney has that fleet filly Miss Jemima running for him. and Pennant keeps his sire company on the Whitney farm. Nothing really first-class in the two-year-old line was to be found running for Peter Pan last year; in fact, even though his appearance contradicts it. I am of the opinion that Peter Pans best successes will come through his daughters excellence as brood mares. Commando exhibits an unusually well balanced pedigree, and Peter Pans dam. Cinderella, is a daughter of that good brood mare sire Hermit; his granddam by the Cambridgeshire winner See Saw. a horse of Herod descent, whose daughters are most productive of winners, and the following dam, Mabille. a sister to the Derby and Grand Prix winner Cre-:norne. also is a member of the house of Herod. All of Peter Pans close ancestors, bar Darebin, are fine, well shaped, elegant horses, and I suppose Peter Pans massive and a trirle i-regular outline is due, in no smad measure, to the Darebin proximity. Darebin, however. was a conspicuous success as a brood mare sire, and his daughters, the dams of Commando. Africander. Goldsmith and Lou Lanier, dam of Adriana. which foaled those two good fillies Celandria and Coquette. Cinderella is also the dam of the r?cent stud success Von Tromp, and of that good winner and producer. Fairy Slipper. Hermit blood is good brood mare bloofl, and his Ion. Bay Middleton, Sultan, Tadmor trains guarantee miccc-s fur Peter Pan as a brood mare sire, and all this is backed by Buccaneer and the Melbourne of Brocket, sire of Margery Daw. dam of Buccaneer. Mabille is a daughter of another good brood mare sire. Parmesan. Is it any wonder, then, that success as a brood mare sire .should be anticipated for Peter Pan. especially if his daughters should take in make and shape after the See Saw. Hermit, Parmesan, part of his makeup? There i every reason lo suppose also that Peter Pan will sire a first-class colt. The Tetrarch. which also strains to Mabille. headed the Fmgiish winning sire list in 1919, and Pietermaritz-bttrg is a big success as a sire in the Argentine. So that although the Burton Barb family was designated by Bruce Lowe as a running family, there is also hope for it as a sire line. Peter Pan is besides a splendid outcross for all mares of St. Simon, Bend Or. Hampton and Isonomy descent; none of the names of these appear in his pedigree. I therefore anticipate much success for Peter Pan when those wire and whipcord St. Simon mares ate chosen for his mates, lor here is the Darebin blood of Melbourne close at hand to make success additionally certain. Bend Or. too. would bring in the strains of Stockwell and Thormanby. in which blood also Peter Pan is deficient. Lack of Hampton, too, is also apparent, and Isonomy blood should pe good results. Really, the more I study Peter Pans breeding the more convinced do I become that he will do the best when bred to clean-cut ail ICclipse Fmglish mares, just as did hi-sire, Commando, before him. I Alarm IS J tBeUfae I B feintrar • *Mi"" v ■ Domino ,...S Bbl .t Lexington 12 H r ■; l Hegira 2 B brown. 1W] . ,, . , r-Z: i i |l.ll„ill.,llill i, ■• ,. i,i.im!iuton 14 e-2 I •I.niiiiiror J ~C- , I Mannie Cray ; I U*a 11 . I Lizzie O War Dance s; II f 3 = ; I Daagbte/ of Leeeaapte.23 II g| The Peer 1. M-lboume 1 M I ,n.MUa 1, rn.iiebin 14 1 IJJ , Cinizelli i K 1 Barnaul C. ..I" "»Wa. 1KW hu.,hn0 J Traduce,- 1Hll : p I , Meraeaid M i; ° brown, lslj i , g N„.fo|k ,, LOarnn J fHeaaia Parrow n * V j Clendew 1 * ;l.iigarry :5 I! «! r . IHearaae Li 11 * S , s. • . . 1 Toackataae 11 •:l" S* ■ Newnutister .... g | SJ I.anter 14 k w -_:• , Hermit B bay, Ms i I.eesv.ing j "• Byataa :;t m h = f : i Daughter of Ardrossan 8 n w a.. caeataat, MM , m.,, ..J ha « H -L , delusion .■""/•Vl" 2 II = . Mi-s Sellon 7,1 • - I t. .- J. ■ I Belle Dame i I-, 2 5 ww *yrell 7 II 1 i.o.cnieer 1 1 - = ~ f See Saw ii •""■""I U , ,,,„ of Lj, ,.,.,, ,;,,v.rl4 ,.; Z - kfasarka ...2 bay, lsur. I alargery Daw .... i Btaekrt 1 M * ~ L , , , ,.-. , I rrotection . . ti K chestnut. lSeS i .... .., t Parateaan 7- Bweetaieat -Jl H I Mabille J Orayere 7 B / Kigolboche i Itataplan I K Daaghter of Gardhaaa. 2 M •Imported. tNo family number.
