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SON OF BROOMSTICK TO BE FEARE HANDSOME COLT WILD AIR BRED TO STAY ANY ROUTE ROUTEAND AND HAS A VICTORY OVER SIR BARTON TO TOHIS HIS CREDIT ALREADY THIS YEAR Verily I lie form of horses tliis year is iiivstlfviiiK Hecently I wrote in llnily Hacing Form the Ken ¬ tucky Derby of this year would lie i race rather of condition than of capability and so it proved f i iirss WJHII Ilot Dsolutely lit may it lirst race well enough litit fail to come liaek ing is anil this is exemplified by the defeat of tin champion Sir Hartou by the threeyear old AVildair which oC course was eligible both for the Kenlueky Derby and Preakncss Stakes Wild air was perhaps trainer Howes choice of all the II I Whitney youngsters of 1919 fr AVildair it was which was sent out to do battle for the Saratoga Special in which he finished second lo Golden Hroom Other unsuccessful races to he i lt Saratoga lint came on to win it lhrei marters dash at Aqueduct The colt however made no show behind Constancy in the running of the Hasten Shore Handicap ran second to On Watch at Laurel beat Cariiiandale over the same course a few days late ran unplaced behind On Watch Hlnzes ami Constancy in the National Stakes and wound up the year by running sec ond to His Choice at level weights also over the Maryland course Wildairs form therefore as a two yearold was good without being great He is liowever bred to improve on anything he showed in his younger days and trainer Howe appears to have effected just this improvement for it is no small feather in the cap of any three year old to Jiave the best of the fouryearold Sir Hartou and also another old one in Holster at this season of the year Heeuuse of this improved form and also on account of his breeding AVildair must if lie be the Whitney selection be held in proper esteem esteemHroomstick Hroomstick sire of AVildair has three times headed the winning American sire list and is the sire of the Two Thousand Guineas winner Swcepvr of the Kentucky Derby winners Uegret and Meridian of that honest race horse Cudgel and is altogether as he is bred to be a firstclass sire whose progeny do not Hindi when the pinch comes and can ever be relied 111011 to give the best that is in them themWriting Writing not long since in Daily Hacing form of Peter Pan sire of AVildairs dam Verdure I drew attention to the worth of his daughters as brood mares for Peter Pan is bred to be a good brood mare sire on account of iiis Himyar descent his Melbourne blood through Darebin of his Herod blood through See Saw and Crcmorne and of that dash of Hermit by way of his dam Cinderella Verdure dam of AVild ¬ air is moreover half Jttiu liUieiindtfj liUieiindtfjalso also sired Sierra Morganottc and Ponza dams respectively of Sundridge Galtce More Ard Patrck and Positano Paslorella is a member of the Nan Darrell branch of the No 19 Davilts old Woodcock mare family and from this branch come besides Colin ami Edward also King hud and St Simons grandsire Vedette It therefore will not be on the score of breeding should AVildair fail to be first to catch the judges eye in the running of the Preakncss Stakes Neither will it be on account of his being a member of u family noted for the speed of its members rather than for their en ¬ durance for King hud won the Cesarewitch and Vedette the Doncaster Cup There is however a slight deficiency in Matchem blood in the make up of Verdure and for this reason should AVildair prove tobc a champion when the time comes for him to be sent to the stud more than ordinary care must be exer ¬ cised in the selection of his mates I Honnie ScotlmllO 3 I KO 11 K Lrimble J giieeii Marj 10 H UenHnishMAV brown 1S75 jvy Lclf J Australian 11 M Hay Flower U H f bay 1J3 Heform 14 3 Leamington Leamingtonlioseville 14 K lioseville i f Stolen Kisse KisseI 11 M I Albia j Alarm 15 K KMW MW H Galliard 13 j Galopin Galopinbrown j Vedette VedetteI 1 K I Flying Duchess I II brown 1SSO AI J Macaroni It H Merlctte 13 K chestnut ISIKJ j Hcnd Or i J Doncaster Houge Itose St Edilha J Kingley Aale AaleI I Lady Alice jllimynr Commando Mannie Gray GrayJ Peter Pan bay 1898 J Darebin Guenn bay IJOl JNewminster JNewminsterSeclusion Seclusion J See Saw SawMaville Maville Springfield 2 j Stockwell Hribery HriberyJMarsyas bay 1 Paslorella 1 JMarsyas Maid of Palmyra Strathconan 11 J Newminster Souvenir Perseverance J Voltiguer Spinster Imported
