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DANGEROUS IN TOMORROWS RACE ON WATCH NOW AT HIS BEST AND QUALIFIED BY PERFORMANCE AND ANCESTRAL LINES TO STAY WELL OVER A LONG ROUTE By EXILE Watch has struck his winning stride, therefore the Latonia Championship will not be the gift it once appeared for H. P. Whitneys selected. On Watch evidently is a fall style runner. Last year he came out of the East to win Latonias Queen City Handicap and followed this up by some stylish performances in the land from whence he came. Seiit to Kentucky this spring for participation in the Kentucky Derby, On Watch was a bit slow in coming to hand, but of late has been having things all his own way, winning in quick succession the Yonkers, Bay Viewj Roslyn and Mineola Handicaps. On Watch, therefore, it would appear, has withstood the necessarily hurried preparation for the Kentucky Derby better than his stable-mate Donnacona, which latter at Saratoga was off his form completely. The Loft pair are by no means the only ones, which were placed hors de combat for the time being. Blazes has only xecently proved himself, by their hurried Kentucky Derby preparation, all of which sets some to thinking of the desirability of deferring the running of the Kentucky Derby until the season is more advanced. On Tuesday last, at Latonia, On Watch made light, of his 114 pounds and practically cantered in oyer the one and one-sixteenth miles course,- finishing well ahead of the older ones, Ginger and King Gorin. Can On Watch really stay? This is the all important question. . A big, rather awkward and angular brown is Oh Watch and one for which time should do much, and one which has inherited much of his sire Colins great turn of speed and should he also have inherited the staying qualities of St. Simon and Musket there can be no sort of doubt that he will find the one and three-quarters mile distance of the Latonia Championship well within his compass. . " Colin, strange lip say, has never yet sired anything approaching his own class, and Colin himself, I take it, better at two than at three. On Watch, however, judgipg from ;the manner of his this autumns Taci, ispne pf.the improving sort, jindwhenone of. thjs kindreally finds iFiacgcgs - - On- Watch-to look at, is more of a Musket than anything, which practically settles the question tf his granddams paternity and Australians can tell you all about the success of the St. Simon-Musket combination. Rubia Granda, dam of On Watch, is by Greenan, son of St. Simon and Sunrise, a daughter of that good race horse Springfield, which won fifteen out of his seventeen starts, and this, Springfield of Sunrise admirably returned to the Springfield of Pastorella, dam of Colin. Truly, it is remarkable how often in running out the pedigree of a good horse there is to be found a return of the good blood from, dam to dam of sire. As turf history is my guide, this, and always, is one of the most successful plans of mating. Sons of Commando, too, seem to score especially well off mares in whose make-up is found a close-up cross of Musket blood, which is, in fact, just the same returning process over again, for Muskets dam was a daughter of West Australian, by Melbourne, and Commandos dam Emma C, by Darebin, son of The Peer, by Melbourne. More stout, staying and moreover sound blood is brought into the pedigree of On Watch by way of Aella, a daughter of the wear-and-tear Glenelg, and this followed by the Herod strains of Lexington. and Glenco- Domino horses, gifted as they are with abundant speed, if success is to come for them as . sires, must be bred to mares in whose make-up is found stout, staying blood, such as that of St. Simon, Musket and Glenelg, otherwise the Dominb tendency to unsoundness is apt to make itself manifest, and if this, practically the only line to Orlando in existence at the present, is to be saved, soundness must be given every consideration in mating. Here is a pedigree to study: .... i Himyar 2 J Alarm ....15 E r Domino 23 J iPira 2 H .. brown, 1890 Mannie Gray I fEnquirer E Commando .12 J Lizzie G 23 H f v brown, 1898 Darebin 14 J The Peer 2M : Emma C . J J Lurline 14 H C f j Guenn J fFlood H C a- f ; - 1 Glendew 12 H f ,- .Springfield ....12. """. 2 "j Bribery . .".". ..."."."." 2 H Pastoreha .19 bay 1873 Viridis j Marsyas .: 12 E - chestnut; 1892 . Ulaid of Palmyra 12 H -1 ,. . , V ; t ot Stratliconan 11 JNewminster 8 E , -..-ru Griselda Souvenir 11 E S S j Perseverance .... i Voltigeur 2 E H - J . . I Nan Darrell 19 E 5 1 , . rninnin 3 o j Vedette .19 E Galopin St. Simon ui i Flying Duchess 3 H X - brown, 1881 1 St. Angela J King Tom 3E O Greenan 1 1 1 Adeline . .11 H f bay, 1895, 1; i Springfield-.....12 i St. Albans 2E . ; Sunrise Viridis 12 E l2 I. ; . j Sunray King of the Forest ,. .31 E g . : i. 1 Sunshine 1 H S. 1 Toxophilite... 3 E o .1 AfiiBUot t i 3 S. . f or J 1 D. of West Australian. 3 M - The Great J " Pry I Ouida j Yattendon 17 E Ruby .... 4 I Gulnare ..... 4 E , " Glenelg 20 J Citadel 20 E Aella . . . v J Babta ; 20 II I La Henderson I Lexington 12 II Kitty Clark 4 II Imported. fNo family number.
