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GREAT BRITAINS PROMISING SON ACE HIGHS SPRING TRIAL STAKES VICTORY A CHEER ¬ ING INDICATION OF THE MAINTENANCE OF THE GREAT MALE LINE COMING FROM GLENCOE DOWN TO HANOVER By EXILE EXILEOutside Outside the colts immediate connections I will venture to state that the Spring Trial Stakes win ords me more genuine pleasure than anyone else connected with the thebreeding breeding of bloodstock in the United States Not in I told you so spirit at all but because Ace Highs success is certain to draw more attention to the merits of Great Hritain as a sire and this is just what is necessary for if the Hanover line is to be saved at all it would appear that it must be through the dual Toronto Autumn Cup winner Oreat Hritain HritainLast Last winter the pedigree of Oreat Hritain was presented for inspection and absorption by the readers of Daily Racing Form In an endeavor to enlist the interest of at least a few of the breeders in the absolute necessity of Hanovers salvation and it gives me pleasure to know that one of the most progressive and least atrophied of our breeders has given Oreat Hritain the chance that should have always and from now ou will be his with some really wellbred mares Many I know are gibes that have been passed ou my advocacy of the usage of a horse in whoso pedigree llows the blood of Tromont but let it be remembered I am a firm believer in the dominant male influence and Oreat Itritain is Han ¬ over above everything else and that he traces in the female Hue to an imported ancestress in Silver a daughter of the Pelsize Arabian with many good strains intervening by way of Lexington Olencoe Dare Devil and Clodius Not in the slightest am I attempting to excuse the Tremont cross but to just make the best of it always think of the good not the bad that is in the best of them and let your watchword ever bo Hanover salvation Lady Moonet dam of the Spring Trial winner is a daughter of Dick Welles a flyer in his day and the sire of many a fast one in particular the redoubtable Itilly Kelly and take my word for it Dick Welles is destined to attain to more than ordinary success as a brood mare sire because of tiie fact that bis sire King Eneli chockfull of the bi bromT najT t rains bJ bJwftyi wftyi wftyif f ICilg T P nsllUXWld liayrell and SffltanT oVncoVs lre hlid alfiT DiclTWolies daml Teas 7ver is by Hanover himself Moonet was sired by Donald A son of Scottish Chief which sired the dams of no fewer than three Derby winners in Melton Donovan and Common and is herself tin dam of the Preakness winner Jack Harts Jr and so to Koenigcn by Masetto son of St Simon Ace High is a member of a really good branch of the No 5 family and lest ye forget Ace High too is bred Herod to Eclipse and is as well supplied witli this great brood mare strain of Herod as any horse I know of Hindoo o Virgil TI Hanover 1 Florence I chestnut 1SS4 Rourbon Pelle Ronnie Scotland The Com J Jf J I Ella I f inoner SC SCCbestnnt Cbestnnt ixaa IXina IXinai i IH ncasHtr Sweet Songstre 1 Melodious rtTromont virii so j g vvv J vvvJ black mi j I jKate v Walker Touch Noti bay ISJl 1 Great Tom 11 j Woodcraft Tom Touchmenot 4 Woodbine J f Kt Ktr ° VV Dghtr of r P 0 OIciicoc King Tom King Eric 3 K Ernest 3 Ernestine f Ernestinef ErnestineParmesan f bay 18S7 Parmesan Cyclone Typhoon f Dick Welles Hindoo I bay 1100 Bourbon Jlcllc Tea Rose 0 1Mr Lord of or the Isles 5 i Scottish 5 Sui r Chief itf 1 10 DiinaM A L Miss Alll = f chestnut 1SS1 j Diopiiantns AlB ° hra Beatrice 3 Moonet B 1 y 1001 f Masetto 0 f I Koenigcn iioj VOIKSS s s I Gillian r i ± Imported No family number