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EXILES PEDIGREE SCRUTINY j Consideration of No. 1 Family of the Bruce Lowe System. Sunflower, Secret, Ellen Home and Sister to Cobweb Branch Most Successful; . r i . BY EXILE. To proceed with the special winner-producing branches of the different families. The No. 1 family, which winds up in Tregon-wells Natural Barb niare. has ever been, most productive of winners of the best class and also of many influential sires. However, here, as in other families, only a few of its branches are particularly noted for their producing excellence. But few breeders and racing meiV have in their possession tables such as "are. now spread before me; therefore to make myself understood I must only bring to your notice the foundation mares without troubling to trace them back to their original source. One of the best branches of the No. 1 family, if not the best, is the Sunflower by Bay Middle-, ton branch. Anything tracing to Sunflower is well worth while. To Sunflower trace the St. Leger winner Sunbeam, her daughter, that good brood mare Sunshine, by Thormanby, which is the dam of Napoli, dam of Laveno, Orvieto, Neap-olis, one of the first sires to score a genuine Ar-. gentine success, and Ponza, dam of the Australian sure Positnno, Crocus, half-sister by Thormanby to. ; iSunbcam, brcfl Coltness, and is ancestress of the best horse in England in five years, Gay Crusader, and also 3IJ"flower, sister to Crocus, which is ancestress of Voter and Celt. The Problem branch of the No. 1 family, through . Secret, is also exceptionally good, although not nearly so large a family as that of Sunbeam. Through Emilias, Problem bred Nameless, and Nameless, through Melbourne, foaled Secret. Secret, when mated with, the Herod horse Macaroni, produced Lady Audley, dam of Pellegrino, and the One and Two Thousand Guineas winner Pilgrimage, .which in turn bred Loved One sire Of Doris; dam of Snnstar and Princess pcrrie. ; "the Oaks winiier Canterbury Pilgrim and the Derby winner Jeddah. Canterbury Pilgrim is, of course, the dame of that good little race horse and. sire Chaucer and of the mighty Swynford. Note, if you please, how frequently tiie names ;of the Herod sires Macaroni and Thormanby, and the Matchem sire Melbourne, appear as the foundation ; stnes of a strong pedigree,. ; The Ellen Home branch of the No. 1 family is ialso extra good -first class in every respect. Bllen Homes daughter Paradigm is the dam of the triple crown winner Lord Lyon only partially, successful as a. sire. Achievement,, Chevisahnce .and Cognisaunce. To Paradigm trace Footlight, ancestress of Prince Palatine, Flair, Flotsam, etc., Illuminata, dam of Ladas and Chelandry, which bred Neil Gow, Traquair and Samphire, Wracks dam. This also is the family of the Derby winner Cicero. To Ellen Home also trace good; old Bend Or and The Tetrarchs sire, Roi Herode. : DISTINGUISHED ANCESTRESS OF MEDDLER. The Queen Bertha branch of the No. 1 family is exceptionally fine, especially for brood mares. Queen Bertha, winner of the Oaks herself, bred; the Oaks winner Spinaway, whose daughter Busybody was also first home for the Oaks at Epsom,, and is the dam of that really good brood mare jstre the inde,feated Meddler. ; To this.., family also belong" the. wonderful Wheel of Fortune, Amadis,. . etc, Queen Bertha traces" hack th"rougfi Flax auU; Odessa to Sister .to Cpbweb. and Cobw.eb, the, dam of Ray Middleton, is also ancestress .to the . St. Xeger Ayinner of recent times, Rlack Jester, whose, isire success is uncertain because of the fact that oio great sire, has come . from this family since .the days of Bay Middleton. .1 -see nothinng to. specially gloat over in the. .Wire by Waxy branch of this No. 1 family. The jPrairiq, Biril, by Touchstone, lias heen unproductive of late. Jack Daw;, is probably,, best. In. tho days of Silvio and ijird of Freedom., this was. .going, strong as a running, line. Members of this branch, however,, have never attained too much distinction . as . sires. What: of the trampoline branch!? Trampoline, ;as. you know, is the dam of. Glencoe, .and from tthis. branch of the; family come, Hammurabi, Gal-:.vani, the Oaks winn.er Cherrymoya, Louviers, etc.,. ; Ibut it is nothing like so productive of, good horses jas. are- some of the other branches of the No. 1 Ifamily. All of the above trace hack to the Barb mare by way of Promise, by Snap. Promise had a half sister in Princess, by Herod, to which trace some notable horses. The most recent big gun is the Derby and Grand Prix winner Spearmint., now a successful sire. That fine stayer Santoi is . also good. Dollar did much for the Flying, lntchnian line in France, as did Mortemer for France and the United States, but the average class of members of the Princess family is not up to that of those which trace to Promise. . A rather occasional branch of the No, 1 family as that of Bonny Lass, many of whose descendants find a home here, Melbourne is the exception that goes to prove the rule, Without Melbourne Itlie house - of Matchem would have, been swept ;aside. Robert the Devil is another distinguished racing member of the Bonny Lass family, but Robert, good race horse as he undoubtedly was, made rather a hash of it as a sire, and I am prone to regard the appearance of his name close up in a pedigree with suspicion. To make a. long story short,, the best branches of. the No. 1 family are. the Sunflower by May Middleton, the Secret by Melbourne, the Ellen Home by Redshank, and the Sister to Cobweb, though this latters specialty is brood mares. No mistake can possibly be made in purchasing stal-, lions, mares or yearlings which trace in the female line to either Sunflower, Secret or Ellen Home.
