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BRUCE LOWE NO. 7 FAMILY Not a Group from Which Regularly Influential Horses Come. Responsible for Our Great Levity Family and Many Matrons of Excellence. ! 1 P.Y EXILE. The DArcys black-legged lloyal mare, or Bruce Lowe Xo. 7 family, is occasionally responsible for tin- prpoduction of a nice horse or sire of unusual excellence. For all this, though, it is not a family from which really influential horses with any regularity do come. The No. 7 horse Trustee, in this country, is the sire of that famous stud matron Levity. Otherwise no Xo. 7 horse has, so far as I am aware, made, any great icputation for himself as a sire here, and even Trustee left no son behind strong enough to carry on his line. The Matcliem line lives best localise of the No. 7 sire West Australian. Macaronis ancestor in the direct male line is the No. 7 horse Walton, but it looks as though the end were in sight for the Wild Dayrell line, and the Eclipse line of the Xo. 7 horse Beningbrough has also ceased to be. All of this is the cause of much sppeculation as to what fate holds in store for the male line of St. Simon, as brought forward by the No. 7 horses Persimmon and his brother Florizel and Diamond Jubilee. Persimmons No. 7 sou. however, Comedy King. is making a go of it down in Australia and j I cannot think that the case of sire perpetuation for No. 7 horses quite so forloin as it is for members oX family No. 5. Many and good nre the winners and sires of race horses, which trace to the foundation mare, Myrrlia, dam of Malcolm, by Malek. Myrrha bred three good producing daughters.. Queen of the May. by Seri Hercules: Messalina. by Bay Middleton, and her sister, Ellen Middleton. Ellen Middbton was best, for not only did she breed the Derby winner Wild Dayrell. but to her trace this years winner of the St. Leger. Caligula, Pic-ton. Hector. Jaeger. Lanius and that great trinity. Persimmon. Fiorizel II. and Diamond Jubilee. Messalina is ancestress of Kemorse, and, in France, of Saxifrage and Salteador. and to Queen of the 1 May trace Hacklet and all the descendants of Cicely Ilacket. The Oibside Fairy by the Hermes branch of the Xo. 7 family is largest. Gibside Fairy, to the several matings of Whisker, bred four good daughters in Maria, Emma. Caroline and Maid of Lune. The best of these were Maria and Emma. Maria herself foabd Euclid, Extciiuwre and Equation, all by Emilius and Extempore, ancestress of Comedy King. Wildfowler, Wisdom. Mordant. Dean Swift, and Flying Fox. The .Maid of Lune and Caroline branches are nothing like so fertile of winners, but the Emma branch is good, indeed. To Emma trace Donovan, Kaeburn. Semolina. Caterer. King Monmouth and Parmesan. There is some thing rather uncanny about these non-sire lines, for from these families so many times come sires which are not capable of transmitting their own sire excellence to their sons and grandsons. If tills is not so, what, then, the cause of the passing of Parmesan in the male line, or the non-success, as a "ire of sires, of that truly good race horse Donovan. But what, all of you wish. I know, are winners and mares which will breed them. .None of yen can go wrong in buying either yearlings or brood mares which trace In the female line to Marins granddaughter. Jen dEsprjt. by Flatcatcher, to Go-ahead, granddaughter of Emma, and members of either the Messalina or Ellen Middleton brandies of the Myrrha by Malek division of the No. 7 family.
