view raw text
brown Prince an Icquisition ENGLISH SIRE RECENTLY BOUGHT IN ENGLAND WAS A FINE RACE HORSE AND BRED ON LINES THAT WILL AID AMERICAN BLOOD STOCK GREATLY By EXILE The purchase of the stallion Brown Prince by Messrs. Miller, Headley and Johnson having boon confirmed, It may prove of interest to readers of Dally Racing Form and breeders of bloodstock, generally to know something of his tnrf career and the manner of his breeding. Starting four times as a two-year-old, Brown Prince failed to win, though once placed second and three times third, alwnys, however, running in good company. As a three-year-old the son of Dark Ronald was at his best, winning at the first time of asking the Spring Three-year-old Stakes at Newmarket so early in the season ns April 17. Next eame a string of five defeats, including a start in the New .Derby, and it was not until the Newmarket Houghton, meeting that Brown Prince found his racing legs and at this meeting won the Cambridgeshire from Planet and Grand Fleet, ahd followed this up by a win of the two and one-quarter miles Jockey Club Cup, beating St. Eloi, Dnnsellon, Mr. Sanfords Nassovian and the Cesarewitch winner of the year. Furore, winning easily by three lengths, and the following season had a couple of outings, failing in each instance to gain a situation. Brown Prince was bred in 1914 by Mr. Donald Fraser and is a brown son of Dark Ronald and Ex-cellenza, by Haut Brion, arid therefore, brother to Constancys sire, imported Ambassador. Here is his pedigree: rliMon J Newminster 8 E t Tnni Lord CUWen o 2 f nampton 10 J The Slave 2 M -Bay Ronald. 3 I l,ay ?872 Lady Langden 5 Kettledrum 3 E tj 1 Haricot i fi x mJ ............. . 3 E AGalliard is j0 " Black -1" " ? 2 Dutchess... - S :i Black Corrie f andnai2 K 5, , . . Tibthorpe or Parmesan 7 II M g ahurio 2 3 Cremorne 2 IRlgelboehe 2 E a A . brown, 1875 , Orlando 13 E black. 1889 - , jiTai.Athol ...10 4$" .-. 3 E W I J 1 Blink Bonny 10 M IS, InSiS"ia ""V" Decoration j" g 3 - . ??,?. . : J Toison dOr 9 II " sf t Galopiri ... 3 i Vedette .....19 E. jj. St. Simon 11 i Flying Duchess 3 11 r J brown, 1881 St. Angela 1 King Tom 3 K , f naut iiaut nrion urion. i 1 .O Adeline 11 H brown, 1S90 , . Bro. to Strafford 8 i Young Melbourne 25 M w .1, J Dghtr. of 8 Gameboy.. M Lassie .... Bonnie, c.ftaln.s Dghtr. . j Lord of the Isles 4E Sunflower Ill I ." " , Doncaster 5 j Stockwell 3 B - S S . Bend Or 1 1 Marigold 5 E " . r diestnut, 1877 j Rouge Rose Tl,ormanby 4 11 Gulbeyaz . . . 3 J : J Lllen Home IE chestnut, 1880 0xrtl 12 P.irdcatcher 11 E Honey Dear 12 E . Sultana " Besika Beiram r II Merope 3 E Dark Ronald, as winner of the Royal Hunt Cup ami Princess of Wales Stakes, I take to be one. of the best horses I ever saw race, and cKilong as he remained in England he proved himself an unqualified success as, a sire, sending out sucli good winners as the One Thousand Guineas winner Vaucleuse, that nailing good horse Son-in-LUw, Brown Ronald, My Ronald and the above-mentioned brothers. The European continental buyers, however, absorbed Dark Ronald and but little has been heard of him for some years past. Bay Ronald, though not by any means the best racing son of Hampton, is, nevertheless, the strongest connecting link, as the sire of Bayardo, Macdonald II. and Dark Ronald in the Hampton-Newminster-Lord Cllfden chain. Darkle, dam of Dark Ronald, is a member of a rather unusual branch of. the No. 9 family, but, unusual or not, Dark Ronald is bred according to the blending of the blood plan of mating, his sire, Bay Ronald, being of Eclipse .descent, and . Darkle, his dam, tracing back in the male line to Herod. Excellenza, dam of Brown Prince, is by St. Simons son, Haut Brloii, which was sent "away to Australia, there to become a genuine success as a sire, and hiW dam, Bonnie Lassie, a daughter of the Matchem sire. Brother to Strafford. Oh, yes! after so. long a time I. believe all of you will agree that the blood of St. Simon has affinity for that of Melbourne. Gulbeyaz, dam of Excellenza, is by the Derby winner and" good brood mare sire, Bend Or, and half-sister to imported Eothen, which during his somewhat abbreviated stud career sired such racing celebrities as Etlidlbert and Requital. Sultana, which comes after, is by Oxford, from Besika, by Sultans sire, Beiram; arid so runs the pedigree to. Merope, grariddam of Galopin. On account, then, of b6th his pedigree and performances. Brown Prince lias much to recommend him as a sire, his Hampton descent being a big point in his favor, .as also Js the fact that his dain, Excellenza, fehows the1 St. Simon-Melbourne cross close up. In addition to this there is the ever-faithful strain pf Bend Or close at hand and his membership of the Galopin branch of the No. 3 family. Year by year the class of stallions standing for service In the United States is being improved, which encourages me to think some sagacious and .enterprising breeder Jias. his .eyes turned toward .France, where Sea "Sick, Main tenon and Oversight are soon to be sold. Good work, however, has already been done" in the acquisition of Brown Prince. Last year he stood at Tickford Park Studf in Bucking-hamshlre, at a .fee of 50. The price is not known. He was priced at over 00,000 last .season.
