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! 1 1 1 1 : BRUCE LOWE NO. 6 FAMILY Diomed Early Member Gave America Lexington French Success vrith Group Marked. P.Y EXILE. The first Derby ever run was won in 1780 by the N. 0 horse Diomed, which afterward, in his old age. was sent to this country, here to become the ancestor of Lexington. A brave1 start was this for famliy No. 0. and prior to Diomeds time, too, many famous race horses and sires swore allegiance to family No. O. among them Cade, sire of Match-em. Kartletts Childers. ancestor of Eclipse, his brother Flying Childers. Cygnet. King Fergus, male ancestor of Hlacklock and Orville. Sorcerer, ancestor of Melbourne. Eleanor, this first filly winner of the Derby, and the Derby winner Phantom. In the last half of the eighteenth century and the first, part of the nineteenth members of the No. 0 family took high rank. These were followed by such famous horses as Priam. Plenipotentiary. Mus-jid. Muley. Ijimgar and others. Even though this family was off in front, as it were, it has not been able, neither in the production of sires or race horses, to maintain the pace. It is a long time now since a first-class No. 0 horse appeared in England. Ferry, a member of this family, managed to win the One Thousand Guineas of 1918. The Kover is the accepted sire of St. Gatieu. See Saw, a good winner himself, sired Loved One. Hruce. Despair and some gvod brood mares. Grey Leg was not by any means a pronounced success as a sire, but had Constancys sire Corcyra lived lie night have changed all this. Tic French have, it would seem, done better with No. 0 horses than the English. The best of the No. 0 French horses I take to be Androcles. Garde-feu. Peaiiii-paire, Heauminet, Kayon dOrs sire. Flageolet and Heauuie. In this country No. i horses such as Old Kose-bud. Worth and Free Lance won. Sir .Martins sire Ogden is the sire of many another good winner, including Star Jasmine and The Finn. Hassetlaw struggled along but slowly. Esher did well as a sire. lovn iu South America Old Man. sire of the top-price Kotafogo. is a No. 0 horse, but on account of tiie irregularity of their success in any line of endeavor ineinlKis of the Old P.ahl FyjT family haVe not niucli to recommend them. PRODUCTIVE BRANCHES OF FAMILY. No one particular branch of the No. 0 family is especially productive of winners. Flageolet. Ogden, Grey Leg, Erla Mor and Ferry trace to Constance by Gladiator, as also do those high-priced Ijonl Glauelys l.lue Tit yearlings of this and last year. Of these Swynfords son has yet to face the starter, though he must have convinced his connections of his capabilities, for they went liack for another quaff of the same cup. The Protection by Defence branch of the No. ti family is as good as any. for to Piotection trace Cleopatras sire Corcyra, the stud failure Forfar- shire. Friar Lubiu. The Kover, sire of St. Gatieu. Macaroon and See Saw. Good though this may be. it is by no means great. To Worry by Wcful. ancestress of Proctoetion and also of Error, trace j those two good freiich horses the ill-starred Holocaust o and Gnrdefeu. To Green Mantle, by Sultan, trace many good winners. Hut no genuine success as a sire has come from this branch of the family. Young Giantess, daughter of the No. 0 Diomed, bred the Derby winner Eleanor, ancestress of Father Thames and Esher and her sister Priams dam Cressida. To Young Giantess, via an unnamed daughter of AYalton. also trace Hassetlaw s:nd Aeredeno. sire of Lassuk, dam of the Kussinh Derby winner Dish Utd. A small though good branch of the No. i family was founded by Fair Charlotte, daughter of Cat ton. and to her trace Musjid, the French sire Androcles and the South American sire Old Man. Plenipotentiary, good race horse though he was. failed to set up a house or his own and Plenipotentiary was a member of the Pipylina branch of tin-No. . family. All in all I see no reason to anticipate either sire or racing success for members of the No. ii family. For some years success for them has, to say the least of it, been a bit sketchy and this may or may not be due to inbreeding iu the early days of the history of the turf.
