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OUR CHAMPION TWO-YEAR-OLD REMARKABLE CONCENTRATION OF BROOD MARE SIRE BLOOD IN THE ANCESTRAL LINES OF THE FAST AND STAYING COLT TRYSTER By EXILE Congratulations are certainly in order for the Kentucky Jockey Club for its enterprise in having instituted ih the autumnal season of the year so rich a scales of weiglit-for-age race for two-year-olds of so far a distance as a mile as the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Handicaps are all well in their way, but necessarily of indeterminate value in estimating the ability of the contestants, and the running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes came quite in the nature of a relief ffom the accustomed deadly handicap grind. For what is horse racing carried on, but as a healthful, invigorating, public amusement, and ns an effort to determine the true racing capabilities of the participants!? The Pimlico executives, too, are coming in for much favorable comment on account of their weight-for-age serial races. Latouia also has her scales weight Championship Stakes. Verily, it would appear that racing sanity is once again to be restored. The Kentucky Jockey Club. Stakes was this time won in irreproachable style by the natty black son of Peter Pan and Tryst, the as yet undefeated Tryster. By the way, the present seems to be rather a good black horse era; only Inst year the black Grand Parade won -the Epsom Derby and this year the black Comrade was first to finish for the Grand Prix. Not since he outbid his stablcmatc Prudery for the Saratoga Special had Tryster faced the starter, and stories were rife, prior to, the. running of the race, that Tryster was not quite keyed up to concert pitch; for all this, the black appeared to be, on paddock inspection, as fit as hands could make him, and his blooming, thoroughly trained appearance a credit to those who had his preparation in charge. Not a big colt is Tryster; just the right size for a eut-and-come-again race horse, not a white hair on him so far as I could see; absolutely the best dispositioned colt ever; attending strictly to the business of racing all of the time; a good pair of galloping hind legs, hocks close to the ground and as sound: as they come. There is, besides1,, just that something about him which bespeaks the real race horse, a quality he exhibited not only in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, but also in the running of the Special, when tackled nearing the finish by his stablrraate Prudery. As in the Special, so in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, Tryster made his own pace, setting his course straight for home his oiily tryst the string. It is ever the exception that goes to prove the rule, for if ever there was a sound one it is Tryster; all wire and whipcord, legs of. tee, .harch as nails, and ever since Special day I have stood him to be one of the two best youngsters seen racing, this year. The also undefeated Leonardo II. lias, I regret to learn, beenreJireA-frrtUeentPnnjh.e question- of-tHe-lS20-WSeinofa? 8uptmacfenaeiadIfeVvaecl4eV-!r,r Just "about Pimlico time last year; when writing of Peter Pan, I then ventued the prediction that there was more than a probability pt lifs sending forth a real good one in the near future, and also called attention to the practical certainty, on account of his breeding, of his success as a brood mare sire, and now all of this is fait accompli. Peter Pan is only a young horse yet, being foaled as recently as 1904, yet he stands this year sixth on the winning sire and fourteenth on the winning brood mare sire lists, his sons and daughters having,. won in first money alone this year more than 05,000 and his daughters have foaled the winners" of nigh unto 2,000, a record this year approached by no other living horse. - Peter Pan, a big one surely, inherits much of his size and bulk from his sire, Commando, which was a legacy left him by Ids dam, Emma C, a daughter of the mammoth Darebin. Cinderella, dam of Peter Pan, is a daughter of Hermit Mazurka, by See Saw, Mabille, sister to the Derby and Grand Prix winner Cremorne, by Sweetmeats son, Parmesan. Eacli and every one of these were more than ordinarily successful brood mare sires. Peter Pan being of Domino descent, having numerous crosses of Lexington and Glencoe, in addition to his Domino, Traducer, Hermit, See Saw and Parmesan blood, it was not in the cards for him to fail, either as a sire of race iiorses or as a brood mare sire. Common sense teaches us that members of the hard, flinty St. Simon tribe would be most acceptable to the rather porous-boned Domino horses, and as a matter of fact it is by following out this plan of mating that Tryster is bred, Tryst, his darn, being a daughter of the Derby winner and son of St. Frus-quin, ,St. Amaut. Tryst, too, is yet another chock full of the best brood mare blood there is. St. Frusnuiu, sire of St. An.ant, is coming on splendidly as a brood mare sire, his daughters having bred.snch as Sun Briar and the Grand Prix winner Galloper Light, which was to be expected, because of; Jiis fit. Simon descent, that his dam Isabel is by the Matchem horse Plebeian and his granddam Parma, by the Sweetmeat horse Parmesan. St. Annints dam, Lady Loverule, was by Muneastcr, which was a son of Windermere, by Macaroni, and so to Nellie, by that extra good brood mare sire HenniJ, and this followed by a dash of King Tom, sire of St. Simons dam, St. Angela. Greenvale, granddam of Tryster, is by the good brood mare sire Hamburg, son of nanover, and the next dam Mineola, by Meddler, which, as you all know, is one of the best brood mare sires of all, and Meddler introduces througii his granddam Spinaway, yet another cross of the influential brood mare strain of Macaroni, and the pedigree traces back througii Hurley Burley to the chipper Helter Skelter, a daughter of the Young Melbourne horse Pell Mell. Annually I run out many pedigrees, but never in my experience one in which so many strains of good brood mare blood appear as arc- to be found in the make-up of Tryster. For a fact, one rarely tabulates the pedigree of either colt or Ally which in the first thirty-two quarterings strains no less than twelve times to Herod and six times to Matchem. Take note, if you please, of the, good brood mare sires which appear in the pedigree of Tryster. There are Alarm, Lexington, Darebin, King Tom, Hermit, See Saw, Sweetmeat, through Parma and Mabille, Sweetmeat again through Macaroni, sire of Windermere and Spinaway, Hanover and Australian in Hamburg, and this backed by any quality of Melbourne by way of Helter Skelter, Plebeian, Brocket and The Peer, pretty conclusive proof, I take it, of the good that comes from a blending of the blood of Herod, Matchem and Eclipse, and on account of the undeniable excellence of his breeding, I must stand Tryster to beat all that come in nineteen hundred and twenty-one. Here is his racing record for the year and his admirable pedigree: Date. .. Race. Course. Dist. Wt Time. Track. Amt. May 27 Purse Belmont Park 4 1-2 f st 115 Fast :52 $ 680 May 31 Juvenile Stakes Belmont Park 5-8 st 115 Fast :58 5 850 June 9 Keene Memorial Belmont Park 5 1-2 f st 128 Fast 1:05 " 5 150 June 19 Youthful Stakes Jamaica 5 1-2 f 130 Good 1:07 5 030 Aug. 14 Special Saratoga 3-4 122 Good 1:12 9500 Nov. C Ky. Jockey Club Stakes Louisville 1 122 Fast 1:38 23695 Tts 6 . .9,925 1 , Himyar 2 J Alarm 15 b r Domino 23 "j UJra . 2 H , Commando ..12 brown, 1890 j fEnquirer E 1COO -uannie uray 1 Lizzie G. 23 H b0Wn 1898 I ?T Darebin .14 J The Peer . .W o w 3 . I Emma C -J Lurliue 14 H , I I tPlood H f t, i. j Guenn 1 Glendew .12 H sis- - , Newminster .... 8 touchstone 14 E 3 Beeswing 8 M ito,; r ., 5- I Y hermit; Tadnior 12 H . Cinderella ..2 o chestnut, 18G4 Seclusion 1 Miss Sellon 5 H chestnut. 1888 I . j Buccaneer 14 H S S Uh.zi.rka , S 1 Margery Daw 6 M S . Parmesan 7 II rt g rt I 1 Mabille Rigolboche ....... 2 E l jt-on iHsMngeiir::::::::::!? i g- r St. Frusquin ...22 i j Plebeian 11 M St. Amaut.. 14 J brown. W Is:,bel 1 Parma 22 H J DoDco.stt?r j E brown, 1901 Muncaster 16 J Windermcre "."."..".!!!!!l6 H I Lady. Loverule ... -j Hermit : 5E S - Nellie ; iHippia 14 E j Hindoo 24 H w i j Hanover .......15 "j Bourbon Belle 15 B , r Hamburg 23 1 J tFellowcraft M 1 Mannie Gray .........23 E Greenvale .... bay, 1895 Lady Reel ; . 1onT J . , St. Gatien 16 E brown, 1907 1 Meddler 1 "j Busybody., 1 E I Mineola . : T . j Riley .MWE 1 Hurley Burley J Helterskelter 2 M Imported. fNo family number.
