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HILDRETHS EXPENSIVE COLT INCHCAPE SON OFi FRIAR ROCK AND ROSE OF GOLD GOLDFULL FULL OF THE BIPOD OF THE GREATEST GREATESTOF OF BRITISH THOROUGHBREDS By EXILE EXILEXothing Xothing in bloodstock breeding was more certain than tlip success of the Wikiup premier Frinr Rock as n sire and at the first time of asking he is out with the groatpriced Tremont Stakes winner Inchcnpe InchcnpeFriar Friar Rock as you know is half brother by the triple crown winner Hock Sand to the champion Fair Play and Rock Sands sons the world over of which perhaps Friar Rock is the best bred are attaining to great and increasing success as sires Down in Australia Sands of the Orient and October are sending out many winners in pngland Tracery Argentina is tin sire of this years Two Thousand winner The Ianther and of that good juvenile Monarch Hock Flint which beat Craganour for the Molecoml Stakes at Goodwood is the sire of many good winners as is Rochester RochesterIn In this country also sous of Rock Sand ah making their presence felt Trap Rock sire of Lucullite again stands well up on the winning sire list his get having won over 30000 this season and others such as Rock View and Flint Rock are doing well indeed Incidentally it may In said that no horse imported in recent years has done as much for American bloodstock interests as has the brown son of Sainfoin and Roquebrune by St Simon for which the president of the Jockey Club paid 125000 in 1900 1900From From the very first I was convinced of the success of Friar Rock as a sire from the fact of his own great racing merit his membership of the Maid of Masham family among whose members are the Derby sire Cyllene the six times leading American sire Star Shoot the dauntless Sysonby such super ¬ latively good race horses as Omar Khayyam Sir Martin Sir Parton etc and of course Friar Rocks half brother Fair Play sire of that pinnacle of racing and breeding excellence Man o War WarFriar Friar Rock traces back in the male line to Eclipse via Stockwcll and his dam Fairy Gold which beat Desmond for the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom is by the Derby winner jrencl Or from Dame Masham by the Two Thousand Guineas winner Galliard Galopin Macaroni and so to Pauline sister to Peter Paul and Timothy by Hermit from Lady Masham by the Matchem sire and son of Young Melbourne brother to Strafford u r s vi i V r t tFairy Fairy rGold all things con ideredmustt e wriTten down as one of the best mares ever imported and the coming of Friar Rock Fair Play Tracery and the rest the result of Major Belmouts appre ¬ ciation of a pedigree and to him the bloodstock breeders of this country owe a debt of gratitude hard to repay as they do to the memory of the late Mr James R Keene for it is to one or the other of the latter gentlemans bcood mare importations that so many of Mr II P Whitneys good winners such as Wildair Dr Clark John P Grier Crocus etc trace The pedigree too of the best horse seen racing in my time Man o War is built up on n solid Belmont imported foundation Mahubah his dam by Rock Sand from Imported Merry Token by Merry Hampton Rose of Gold dam of Inchcape is a daughter of the sterling horse Top Gallant from Golden Rose by the Xew Stakes winner and son of Ormonde Goldfinch half brother to Common and tin St LIKIT winner Throstle thus returning the Rend Or strain of the dam to the Rend Or of Fairy Gold dam of Friar Rock RockGolden Golden Roses dam La Trappe is by Hermit and here again a return of blood La Trappe to Pauline and so runs the pedigree to Ambuscade by Gambrino ancestress of Sunstar and Princess Dorric and this the Diversion by Defence branch of the No 5 family Do they tell you success in bloodstock breeding is a mere matter of chance Nothing however could be further from the fact for the same strains of blood and combinations of blood lines that have been productive of the best in past years are still responsible for the best of the winners sires and brood mares of today todayThere There is no getting away from the fact that the Rruce Lowe families are responsible the world over for by far the great majority of the best and to these Rnice Lowe families may be added the Sappho line of Australia and the Maria West and Aerolite families of this country countryAnyway Anyway the first twoyearold bred in the United States to be sold for a great price traces to the Englisb Stud Rook in every line of his pedigree pedigreeHere Here is Inchcapes pedigree in detail Springfield 12 St Albans ainfoin 2 Viridis Rock Sand 4 chestnut 1887 j Randa j Wcnlock 1 Sandal w brown 1000 i St Simon 11 JGalopin oquebrune J 1st Angela JI I St Marguerite Margueriteend Hermit Devotion end Or Ij aster r j Stockwell Marigold Fairy Gold fl chestnut 1877 j nouge Rose J Thormanby chestnut 1890 Ellen Home i Galliard 13 j Ga1opin ame Masham J 1 Mavis JI I Pauline Hermit JLady Masham Sterling 12 Oxford Oxfordbay j Birdcatcher j Honey Dear bay 1SOS Top Gallant S Flatcatcher f bay 1881 Silence Adventurer to j Xfwininster Sea Mark J Palma JI I Sea Gull j Lifeboat 1 Wild Cherry Goldfinch 4 j Ormonde 15 j Bend Or Lily Agnes Golden Rose chestnut 1880 Thislle Scottish Chief j The Flower Safety 5 j Xcwminster I Seclusion Ambuscade Camerino Crossfire
