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I I . ! . BRUCE LOWE NO.5 3 FAMILY Its General Make-up and Best Branches Sketched by Expert. Brown Bess by Camel, Phryne, Midia and Juniper Mare Considered Best. BY EXIL"E. A wonderful family is No. 3 of the Bruce Lowe groups. It is the best of all of them. It Is famous for the excellence of its members as sires, race horses and brood mares and also for the number of its good producing branches. Just which particular branch is best is a matter of conjecture. When asked the question the. mind, as a usual tiling, instantly fixes on the Pocahontas branch, for Pocaliontas was the dam of Stockwell, Rataplan and King Tom, and also many good producing daughters from which have come many of the most influential horses of this and other lands. But of late years these Pocahontas horses have not appeared with that same regularity which was once the case and one is moved to ask, "What is the mutter with Pocahontas !" To what can this be due but to inbreeding, to following the fashion of doubling up Stockwell, Rataplan and King Tom until this at last has brought about retrogression. Stalwart was the last good Pocahontas horse in this country and the Grand Prix winner Kizil Kourgan the best Pocahontas in recent times in France- Clover and Clamart were- also good, Tbut come to think of if, It is a long time since they had a good Pocahontas horse in England. To what can this be due if not to inbreeding? The question now comes up, Does the same fate await St. Simon? Follow the fashion as you will, breed for nothing but immediate race course success, and you do so witli the absolute understanding that this in the end will bring about disaster. Here are a few of the best producing branches of the two True Blues family: The Diree by Partisan branch is good, as the family of the Frenchmen Vermouth and Vertugardin of the successful sire Bay Ronald and the Oaks winner Cheery Lass. Members of the Poteen by Young Blncklock branch, such as Richmond and Wallace, proved most potent as sires in Australia. Poteens half sister Foinuella bred Plum Pudding and both of these trace to Biggotini, by Thunderbolt, which is ancestress of Meltons sire. Master Klldare. The strongest and best branch of the No. 3 family at the present I take to be the Brown Bess, by Camel. To Brown Bess trace such as Musket, Knowsley, La Fleche, her sister Memoir, the Australian stud success Grafton, Sain, Swynfords sire John o Gaunt, that good race filly Endurance by Right, the Kentucky Oaks winner Sunbonnet and the three-time leading sire Polymclus. Brown Bess best daughters, both "of them unnamed, the one by West Australian and the other by Young Melbourne, each founded good producing lines of their own and both of the sires of these unnamed mares are of Melbourne -Matchem descent, and it was the fact of so many of these foundation mares being of Matchem and Herod descent which first drew my attention to the good results which follow the blending of the blood of Herod, Matchem and Eclipse. PHRYNE, MIDIA AND JUNIPER BRANCHES. Phyrne, dam of Windhound and Elthiron, founded a right good family of her own and I am also luite partial to the Mentmore Lass by Melbourne branch, for this the family of the Oaks winner Hannah and her descendants Favonius, Galeazzo and Radium. The Midia by Scutari branch is another of merit. To Midia trace the savior of the Thormanby line Atlantic, as well as King Eric, sire of Dick Welles, Ort Wells and Prince Lief. To Fern by Fernhill trace Ormondale, sire of Purchase. J. O. Keenes Russian giant Irish Xad and; Marco, sire of Omar Khayyam. King Ernest and the late Mr. W. K. Vanderbilts Grand Prix winner Northeast strain to Ernestine by Touchstone:- Hybla bred the Derby winner Kettledrum and the Oaks winner Mincemeat, dam of many and Sweet Sound, ancestress of Winifreda and this years Latonia Championship winner Cleopatra. A really good No. 3 foundation mare is an unnamed daughter of Juniper, which is the dam of Merope by Voltaire and Estelle by Brutandorf. Estelle bred Picnic and Picnic the One Thousand Guineas winner Mayonnaise, ancestress of Corrie Roy, Highland Chief and any number of other good horses. But the best and strongest branch of the unnamed Juniper mare family is handed on by way of Merope by Voltaire. Merope the dam of Flying Duchess and Besika. Flying Duchess, dam of Gulopin and Vex, to which latter trace Exterminators sire McGee, Dinnn Forget, The Tartar, Bracelet and the Caulfield Cup winner Luvendo. To Besika strain Eothen, sire of Ethclbert and Requital. Constancys sire Ambassador and his brother, the recent importation Brown Prince. The general producing excellence of all of the branches of the No. 3 family is well brought out in the case of Isinglass. Isinglass is .a member of the Antelope by Whalebone branch. Neither before nor since tiie dayN of Isinglass has any really good winner and sire come from this branch of tlio No. 3 family. From the above it may readily be understood that there Is safety in family No. 3 no matter whether the quest be race horses, yearlings, sires or brood mares. In No. 3 yon are safe, or at least the odds are not against your success. The most interesting No. 3 question now is. Can Pocahontas come back or has inbreeding to her proved finally fatal?
