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POPULAR YOUNG SIRE OF TODAY BALLOT MAINTAINING THE MALE LINE OF HERMIT IN VIGOROUS LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY WHILE IT IS ALMOST EXTINCT IN ENGLAND By EXILE The increasing success of Ballot as a sire is gratifying, oven though the son of Voter has no ia yet sent out a smasher; but I suppose thi . too. will come in time. In his racing days Ballot wa.s ever the stopgap, ready at any time to lead a forlorn hope, and gain his objective, too. when others of the Keene stable were in dry dock, laid up for /■pairs. Little interest, however, now attaches to Ballots turf career, for everyone is now more interested in his doings as a sire. That honest colt Midway is. I suppose. Bailots best representative to date. Midway, when at his best, is but little short of high class, and can ever be relied on to give the best he has. lord Brighton won last year, as a three year-old, five good races. Stockwell, prior to the tunning of the Latonia Championship, was held in high esteem. Valor captivated in the earlv Saratoga days. Albert A. raced consistently and well. Ballad, Breeze. Buford and Sister Emblem all won a number of races, but there is not one really first-rater among them; good, tough, durable horses though they admittedly are. Great things were at one time anticipated for last years two year-old Vice Chairman, winner of a couple of races, and I am given to understand his connections still hold him in the highest esteem. I only hope the colt may develop into a three-year-old of top class. The Hermit line, of which Ballot is a member, seems to have been snowed under in mgland; not one of the twenty English leading sires for 1911 trace in the male line to Hermit. Hermits is essentially a brood mare line, and the Derby winner of 67 is better known for he excellence of h daughters as brood mares than he is for the success of his sons and grand-sruis as sires. Undoubtedly combinations of blood lines, as disclosed by his teuigree, ar" re ixtnsible for this. Hermits son, Friars Balsam, grandsire ol Ballot, was out by himself as the best two-year-old of his year. Friars Bab-am, however, was something of a failure as a sire, and outside of Ballots sire. Voter, no successful stallions by Friars Balsam come readily to mind. Hermit was bred to be a good brood mare sire. Newminsler had for a dam the Matchem mare Beeswing, and both of Hermits first and second dams. Seciusion and Miss Sellon. are of Herod descent. Flower of Dorset, dam of Friars Balsam, is practically all Eclipse, but Voters dam. Mavourneen. a daughter of the Matchem-Melbourne sire Barcaldine, and Voter himself a member of the Sunflower, by Bay Miildleton. branch of the No. 1 family. Il was therefore easy enough to predict for Voter success as a rood mare sire; the debatable question is will any one of Voters sons prove trong enough to carry on the Hermit line? And it would appear that Ballot, with just a little of the right sort of encouragement, may rise to the occasion. In this connection it would be interesting to know just how many mares of Barcaldine or Melbourne descent were mated with Friars Balsam. Ballots dam, Cerito, is by Lowland Chief, a descendant of King Tom. Eclipse. Merry Hince. by Stockwells son. Doncaster; Eclipse, and Eclipse again through Scottish Chief; Lam-bourne and Touchstone; in fact, Cerito strains no less than twelve times out of a possibl? fourteen to Eclipse. Ballot shows neither St. Simon. Bend Or nor Lsonomy in his makeup, and should therefore succeed well when mares of these lines ate chosen as his mates. A study c! Ballots pedigree at once di.scloses the fact that he is decidedly deficient in Herod and Matchem strains, which indicate these strains of blood should be supplied by his mates, and the pedigree of the best of his winners bears out this conclusion. Midways dam. Thirty-third, i- a daughter of the Blacklock horse. Sir Dixon. Remember. Ballot is deficient in Blacklock blood, and Thim thirds granddam. Nettie, is by Neptune, son oi the good French horse, the Ascot Gold Cup winner. Mortemer. Lord Brightons dam. Miss Crittenden, is by Royal Flush HI., a line descendant of Herod, and Vice Chairmans dam. by Kilkerran. son of Ayrshire Hampton, whose dam, Maid of Lorn, is by Barcaldine. It is evident, therefore, that Ballot, not only in theory, but also in practice, succeeds when bred to out-bred mares. I am certain that if mares of Hanover, Australian. Barcaldine. Voung Melbourne and Macaroni descent are selected as his mates, he wont be long in sending out something as good as he himuaH was. Ballot is a horse which for a better expression may be termed top-heavy Eclipse. and the rugged, coarse if you wi.l. strain of Melbourne, must fit him spLndidly. How often u:i one hear the remark when racing, "What a trim-made horse, hardly size enough, just Ike the Ballots r.st ally come." Then-" you have it; Ballot to carry on the Hermit line must find the coarse blood of Melooume c-ose ur in hi: mates, otherwise, no matter how perfectlv t, rmed and fini.-hed in appearance his progeny may be, they will be found lacking in th? solidity so essential in the real stud horse. ,, . t Mewmlaster J "-"Hist,,,,. M « r Hermit u • I Reeawiag 8 M ISM Tadmor 12 n Pri us chestnut. s,.,.,,,,,,, .» I Balsam . . J , V "l "" V- v Slockxxell a :i E - 1 ill ilbiTie M i, "" " y raeataat, 1MK ,,,,„„,.,. ., ,,,„.„,, 1 Blink Boaar lo M / . . . .. . . . . . . . . .W K fi: imperalrice J £h£o I « S * w,vr Australiaa 7 M s ,i e " "•; ! ,- 7 r Itarcaldiiie i I | Burling* dam SI V. I •" i bay. isTs J Raltrroe J BeUaaTaaa 22 i: - , Mavourneeii. 1 , , ,.„,, Accord s i: 3 i raeataat, IWW I , Albert Victor .... i 5llrs ls v- H SI _ . J Irinccss of Wales ...1H B g " , x i.a.x.iene - !.-, .-.l..nn 1-1 . . .» S,..ttt~.l. Chief 12 V. S - ; Mayflower l 11 tj H , [ Dalesman BJag Tom A B I.ortlander . ... 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