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BRUCE LOWE NO. 10 FAMILY r . i Greatness of Queen Mary Makes All Other Branches Dull. ! Her Son, Bonnie Scotland, Whose Potent Influence So Richly Endowed -America. 4 . RY EXILE. There can lie no doubt that Queen Mary is the most iiifluenti.tl thoroughbred mare, as Judged by the attainments of her descendants In all tilings, ever foaled. To speak of the Xo. 10 family, of which siie is a meinlier, is to think of Queen Mary, rather than of Ferina or Alea, which are also foundation menihers of this family, for the descendants of these, good and capahle as they are, do not in any way compare in excellence with the descendants of Queen Mary, the immortal. The best of those tracing to Alea is the St. Leger and Ascot Hold Cup winner 1etrarch. which was a good brood mare sire, indeed, but it would appear his line has had its day and is shortly to be swept aside. Ferina was the dam of the Derby winner Pretender, but since his time no first-class race horse or influential sire from this branch of the family lias come, yet members of these two inferior branches of the family trace to the same source as does Queen Mary and are known to the world as members of the family No. 10. Queen Mary, first named Isabel ile Fortibus. was foaled in 1S-13. I do not know that she ever won a race, but I do know she was a daughter of the Herod horse Gladiator. Some day I hope to run out a list of these foundation mams, for it isintere,sUng. to note how-iimii.v of them trsn?e TUtek". Tn the niale line, to "either Ilerohl or Matchem. Queen Mary bred Ronnie Scotland, the horse to Which the Inlted States owes so much, as the ancestor of all the l.en Itush-Itroomstick tribe :ind was also the dam of Wisdoms sire Illink-lioolie. Despite all this Queen Marys chief virtue Jny. in the superlative excellence of her daughters :is brood mares. Queen Marys most famous raving daughter, the Derby winner Itlink r.onny. bred the Derby and St. Leger winner Itlair Athol. and to Itlink Itonnys daughter ISorealis trace the Oaks winner My Dear. Aleppo. Imberg and Itayardu. the sire of Cay Crusader. Others .f Queen Marys daughters too have had much do with the making of turf history. Itonny Poll is ancestress of Carlton: to Ronnie Doon trace Iteldame, Watercress and Disguise; to Itloomiug Heather strain Sunder and the Prix de Diane winner Queui uville and all of the Mnhouia runner; to Haricot run Hampton. Kir Itevys. Mackintosh, Caller On and Perola: to Jtab at the Itowster strain Fenek and to Itraxey, that splendid Australian race horse Poseidon and also the next best horse to Man War. according to my views, which has raced in this country for ten years, the 130 pounds, one and one half miles, record time for tin? race, beating two Derby winners, Howie Handicap winner, George Smith. BAYARDO AND OTHER GREAT SONS. The best of Queen Mary is that her descendants are just as good us sires as they are as race horses. Jtayardo, as judged by his accomplishments as a sire, was a wonder as long as he lived. Hampton wired three winners of the Derby in L-idas. Merry Hampton and Ayisliire. and the line of Hampton goes strong today, mainly because of the excellence as sires of Pay Ronalds sons, Dark Konald and Dayardo. As it is with Maid of Masham so it is with - Queen Mary, the blending of the blcod of Herod, Matchem and Eclipse is in either case one of the main contributing factors in the success of their descendants. Queen Mary, herself of Herod descent, bred the Derby winner Itlink Itonny. by the Matchem sire Melbourne, and Itlink ltonnie, from the great Eclipse horse Slockwell, foaled that miglily Xcrth Country man Itlair Athol. Queen Marys daughter Jlonny Poll was a daughter of the Derby winner and Eclipse horse Voltigeur, but the Itonny Pell branch of the family has not been so productive of first-class horses as is the line which traces to Melbournes daughter Itlink lionny. In her declining years Queen Mary, by the Matchem sire Kapid Rhone, foaled ltonnie Doon. ancestress of Iteldame, Watercress anil Disguise. Itloomiug Heather, sister to Itlink Itonny. is ancestress .of the Prix de Diane winner Quenouille and Sunder. Itab at the Itowster by Annandale, Eclipse, is ancestress of the continental runner Fenek this, however, the least Itroductive branch of the Queen Mary family. Haricot is ancestress of the Derby winner Sir Itevys and tint t truly good sire Hampton, a horse himself deficient in Matchem blood. Is it any wonder, then, that the Hampton horse ltayardo sired his best. Gay Crusader, from a mare of Matchem descent? To Itraxey by Mose Trooper, Eclipse, trace the Ascot Gold Cup winner Tristan and many good winners, but Itraxey too was minus the Melbourne touch, but her direct female descendant Consuelo II.. a daughter of the Matchem sire ltradwardine, and Consuelo II., the dame of George Smith, evidence surely of the ready reswnse of members of the family of Queen Mary to the Matchem leaven. Sires which are members of family Xo. 10 excel as transmitters of sire excellence. Such a one is ltonnie Scotland, as are Hampton, Itlair Athol. Itlinkhoolie, Penclerc and Fireworks, sire of Golds-broiigb, in Australia. In very trull it may be said of the Queen Mary family, for family No. lo is Queen Mary anil Queen Mary alone, that in spite of a late start and the comparatively small number of mares which are members of this family, that no family cau compare with it in general excellence. SOME OF THE FAMILIES GREAT STARS. Outfits dnm by Teddinglon bred four daughters, three of them, Adelaide. Sister to Adelaide and ltlue Itoiiliet. by Young Melbourne, and the other mi unnamed daughter of Musket. Of these Adelaide proved best as ancestress of Queen Adelaide, Aitla, La Sagesse, Sysonby, Xuu Nicer, Dismay, Parley Dale and Omar Khayyam. Xcither ltlue Itonnet nor Sister to Adelaide has done anything like so well, and to Muskets unnamed daughter trace Soliman, Son o Mine and Winkfiebls Pride. The best of these three is the latter, whiVh, on being sent to France, there scored a big success as the sire of two Grand Prix winners in Finasseur and Quo Vadis. The success of Wiukfields Pride is cT unusual interest, because of the fact that he is a son of the Matchem horse Winkfield. and the inference is that members of the Maid of Masham family always resiind to the introduction of the Matchem strain. Above allusion was made to the comparative ill success of members of the Itlack Star branch of the family, which, as you knew, is without the Matchem leaven. The soil is, however, there and all that is necessary is a good top dressing of the Melbourne fertilizer to bring forth an abundant crop. Maid of Mashams half sister. Maid of Derwent, by Fla tea tcher. founded a right good family of her own in Australia and to her trace Wakeful, Night Watch, Noctuiform and Nightfall. Other reasonably successful No. 9 foundation mares are Querida by King John. Irritation by King of Trumps, Variation by Iiustard and Remembrance by Sir Solomon. To Querida trace many gooil Irishmen, including lycstcrlin, to Irritation strain P.endigo. Kilmarliu and Valens. The first named, a real good race horse, was a woeful failure as a sire. Variation is the dam of Elphine, Sister to Pnmpey. Exotic and Evasion, all by Emilius and Elphine, the dam of The Wizard, Lninhtou and Warlock, but none of these strong enough to set up houses of their own. Sister to Poiupey is ancestress of Phaeton, sire of King Alfonso, and all of us know what happened to King Alfonsos son Foxhall as a- sire. The fact . is no sires of marked influence trace in the female line to Itustards daughter Variation. The best daughter of Remembrance is Forget Me Xot. dam of the Derby winner Daniel ORourke and of two good producing- daughters in Auld Acquaintance by Itirdcalcher and Vergiss Mein Xicht by Flying Dutchman, this latter ancestress of Juggler. Necromancer. Peter Quince, Trance and this years Latouia Derby winner Upset. Our absolute best Auld Acquaintance is, however, the Royal Hunt. Cup and Princess of Wales Stakes winner Dark Ronald, which, during his all too brief stud life in England, sired such good ones as the One Thousand Guineas winner Vaueleuse, that high-class race horse Son in Law, Magpie, Constancys sire Ambassador and the recent importation ltrowu Prince, and now the question. Has Dark Ronald snapped the non-sire transmitter bonds, which have heretofore fettered the sire efforts of members of the Remembrance by Sir Solomon branch of the No, 9 family? i
