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j . r 1 i . 1 I , , i . t , 1 . MAN 0 WARS GRANDMOTHER t Merry Tokens Mother a Selling Plater of Cheap Performance. - - j Two Broome Manor Stud Bargain Mares Produced Dams of Man o War and Botafogo- BY E. E. COTTSSELL. LONDON, England, December 3. Merry Token, the granddam of Man. o War, was bred at the Broome Manor Stud Farm close to Swindon, a thriving, railway town, seventy miles west of London. The Stud was founded about thirty years ago by the late E. J. Keylock-. He rarely owned more- than three or four mares, yet he consistently bred smart winners. Tn 1886 Mr. Keylock bought the mare Mizpah. The previous year, she had won. three selling races. The last time she was successful, carrying 142 pounds at Chester, she was sold to Thomas Leader,, a well-known Newmarket . trainer, fdr 50. Mr. Keylock gave Leader 50 for Mizpah, whose racing record is as follows: Year. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 1882 , 9 1 2 3 4 $ 510 1883 9 0 1 3 5 1884 7 1 1 1 4 510 1885 .15 . 3 2 3 7 1,570 188C 4 0 0 1 3 ,. Totals 5 44 5 C 11 22 ,590 All Mlzpahs victories, were in five-eighths of a mile selling races. After winning as a four-year-old she was sold for 75. This did not appear to be the class of mare to be the ancestress of a world-renowned champion like Man o War. She bred five foals only and died in 1894. That year -Mr. Keylock refused an offer of ,000 for Mizpah. Two days later she was found dead In a paddock. Her best" produce were Follower, Watch-tower and Tanzmeister. The last-named, a good looking horse, with rather straight pasterns, was a useful handlcapper and sired a number of winners. Merry Token was the fourth foal of Mizpah. and she was born March 7, 1891. As a two-year-old she started in eight races, of which she won two, both over five-eighths of a mile. The next season she .ran seven times and was successful in a couple of minor races, run over one mile. GENE LEIGH BOUGHT MERRY TOKEN. She produced five foals in England. The first four were all colts and none was any good on the racecourse. Her first filly, by Avington, son of Melton, came in 1902 when the mare was mated with Missel Thrush. Mr. Keylock sold the mare and foal to Eugene Leigh, who presumably was acting for Major August Belmont. Mahubah, the of Man o War was the sixth foal Merry idam Token bred after she arrived in the United States. Mr. E. J. Keylock died about eight years ago; I have just spent three days at Broome Stud with Major H. E. Keylock, F. R. C. V. S., who returned from -China not many years ago. Turning i I over a book with details of his fathers mares. I 1 discovered the particulars of Merry Token and , Mizpah. Further, at the same time when . Mr. ; ; Keylock sold Merry Token, he also disposed of a , , mare named Ulla. She was a daughter of Barcal-I I dine and he gave 00 for her in 1895. She was bred to Raeburn in 1901. Her foal, afterward known as Korea, was faced in the United States. In 1910 Major Carson sent Korea to Argentina, where, when mated with Old Man, .she produced liotafogo, the greatest horse ever bred in Argentina. He won eighteen races and stakes valued at 90.-050, and was sold in January, 1918, to Mr. M. de H6z, owner of Craganour, for 00,000. which entitles him to rank among the highest priced stallions ever sold. 1 It is noteworthy that American breeders should possess such strong personal interest in the world i famous descendants of mares imported from the ! Broome Stud.
