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1 ANCESTR Y OF THE SPEEDY RANGOON BEST SCION OF LIGHT BRIGADE WHICH HAS SO FAR APPEARED IN AMERICAN RACING By EXILE Horsemen, ever contradictory, are prone to say of a yearling, "Oh, hes not big enough for the sales ring," and of a two-year-old, "Hes too big to get around the turns." There you have it and more or less truth in it all. The. small yearling, no matter its breeding, rarely brings a good price at Saratoga and the big race horse, a la Gladiator, seldom is handy on the turns. However, as a general thing, there is more likelihood of improvement in a big one, from two to three, than in his undersized f:ll0W. Rangoon, winner of the Golden Rod on the wind-up day of the Kentu?ky racing season is a big one, surely 16.1. I have no doubt, but if lie has finished growing lie is more than apt to make better than average improvement during the winter months. The Golden Rod is not the onlv stakes victorv accredited to Rangoon, for he was also first past the post in the Latonia For Thomas Handicnp. In all he has won four races and over 5,000. Rangoon, however, made no show in the running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes behind Tryster, but big ones frequently in their first season on the turf become confused, unbalanced and flounder in a strongly-run race, all of which frequently disappears with age. Hence in Rangoon, Light Brigade, at his first attempt as a sire in this couatrv, may have sired a two-year-old which next year as a three-year-old may make them all s.tretch their necks to beat him Rangoon, besides being a big advertisement for his sire, Light Brigade, is yet another star in the crown of Maria West. Incidentally it may be noted that the seven-eighths Golden Rod for those two years of age was of greater value than the Louisville Cup for three-year-olds and over. Mr. William Woodard is authority for the statement that size and strength are absolutely uecessarv in the weight-carrying endurance test under Remount regulations. May I therefore be permitted to suggest that the best stamp of army horse is not developed by allotting an excess amount of money to juvenile racing. Rangoon, in fact, when six years of age would be just the sort of horse to win a Remount test but as matters stand his stamp are all too frequently battered to pieces, in an effort to make both ends meet in their first season on the turf. Therefore, I once again direct attention to the necessitv of encouraging ueight-for-age and cup racing. Predictions in horse breeding are frequently fraught with danger. However, I am willing to chance the prognostication that the star of Light Brigade is in the ascendant. First oft this season the race murse manners of the progeny of Light Brigade were not at all pleasing, a number of them having that distinctly ominous tail-switching habit, but this disquieting trait is absent from those which have raced 1 this autumn. Light Brigade made his first season in this country in 1917, having arrived from England the previous autumn, and it is largely on account of this that I base my prediction of his increasing stud success, from the fact that for at least twelve months after arrival no horse sire or racer can be accounted for as thoroughly acclimatized. Stallions have actually been declared impotent which were only accommodating themselves to changed climatic conditions. All are not affected alike, however It is unwise to regard any sort of imported horse as normal until he has been in this country for at least twelve months. - Lardella, dam of Rangoon, is also the dahf bf the Canadian Derby winner Dr. Samuel and of Arthur Middleton and is by Lackford, a good solid sort of a chestnut and winner, among .otbex-races.-rol.y Great Lancashire Handicap at Liverpool, butonewhichinej-ergreatiyr breeders of the JJlue.Grass" for-all-tharfte-ls-a- tm"oCvtliut flyer Juggler "and Cailleach. by Galliard, sire of Elf, Broomsticks dam, and Black Duchess, dam of Bay Ronald. From this alone it was to be expected that daughters of Lackford would succeed as brood mores. Speed and breeding are the main essentials in a brood mare. Only at Latonia on cup day an old-time horseman was heard to remark, "Thats strange, Pif Jr winning a cup race and his dam Anna Bain could not stay three-quarters." All of which is but addi" tional proof of the truth of the Duke of Beauforts statement that slow, staying mares were valueless as brood mares. Back of Lardella come crosses of Rayon dOr, Eclipse, Glencoe and Sovereign, trulv a goodly arrav of race horses of high class and breeding, and Rangoon, a member of the best native" family there is that of Maria West. Constantly I see reference in newspapers which devote a certain amount of space to the breeding of the thoroughbred horse to the worth of the old-fashioned American families. lie it understood once and for all that, in my opinion, there are but two of these native families that are really good, and these, what for convenience sake be termed the Aerolite family and Rangoons family, the Maria West. The former, because it is the family of Man o Wars ancestor. Spendthrift, and the latter because of Ben Brush, Riley, David Garrick, Democrat, the best two-year-old of his year in England; The Manager the inextinguishable Exterminator and the Hopeful Stakes winner Leonardo II. Strange to say, botli Rangoon and Leonardo II. trace back to Maria West, by way of Flenr de Lis by Sovereign, for not since the days of Democrat has anything of real merit come from this branch of the family, but now in this year of grace, both East and West, is there a two-year-old shining light. Here is his ancestry: r0rvieto ......... 1 j Bend 0r fRou5eStRrose" .".WW 1 H r Picton 7 I bay 1888 T Xapoli Macaroni 14 H J , . , ,,,., , 1 Sunshine 1 H g. chestnut. 1903 r s I . -1 accuba j " Isola BelIa . E S I Helen of Troy ... J?01 J if ha. Belle Helene 7 E I r isingia.s 3isonomy JlSlLilaWWWW 2 Bridge of I hay, 1890 j Dead Lock Wenlock ,. . 4 E 3 Sighs .... 8 j Malpractice 3 E pi bay, 1905 St. Simon J:ilIonhl ; 3 E " 3 L Santa Brigida ... Aulf ,.. 11 E 2 1 "nilu nriil"et i Master Kiidare 3 E - Violet Melrose 8 E O g Touchct Loutuct . 14 " iJorA Iyon 1 E O f Juggler ........ 9 Lady Audley 4 H X J3 r Lackford ...91 . chestnut, 1885 Enchantress Scottish Chief 12 E chestnut,- 1895 "J Lady Love 9 E " b 0 ! Galliard 13 "IP,n rt . . 1 Cailleach 9 J Mavis 13 H 1 Scotch Hag Blair Athol 10 E "-. Hecate 9 M I , J Ilutus 15 E Fi;,PniPt r. I 2 2 f Rayon dOr .. 3 J rlJC0let 0 La Favorite 6 E 2" Clio MW ! cIiestiiut, 1870 j Araucaria Ambrose 10 E - I Pocahontas 3 E chestnut, ,- 1884 .. Eclipse 1 i Orlando 13 E Quits I Gaa- 1 H Columbia Glencoe 1 H Flour de Lis M.W. E Imported.
