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BRUCE LOWE NO. 1 1 FAMILY • i t j St. Simon and Orme Are From This Thoroughbred Division. ■ ♦ Man o Wars Great Ancestor, Australian, a Member — Jerboa Branch Most Influential. . 1 i BY EXILE. Sire family No. 11. designated M sii.h liy Bruce I/owe, i- in.! :i sire fiiinil.v only because i 1 Marked ability of Mime of its members ti nre many gaed winners, but ulso thai members of thin family hare beea found capable of trausmlttiag their own sin excellence iii a in.iik.il degree to their drnrindaats I lie Bastard liae to Herod «; brought forward iiy the No. n hois,, Fisherman. The Melbourne lino of Matchcm carries mi in this country because of the No. ii sire Australian. Iain of the Eclipaa line aad sire of Bnaair Scotland was -, o. 11 horse. :is ulso arc two of the greatest and best sires of winners aad progenitors. Birdcatcher aad St. Simon. For some unaccountable reason No. ii race hataea of unusiiiil excellence only seldom put in :ui appear ; ncc. but when on.- dors eome lo hand he is more than apt to be of ex, e. ding merit, and after his racing days are ended continues to ■ rrampll ill wonders as a lira. Such a on.- was St. Simon and in lesser degree his close relative, trme. Tins,-two are members of the Jerboa by Cehanna branch «.f the family, from which also is descended thai good Australian race horse Great Beat, Nine, tenths of Hie .No. 11 hort.es trace to Jerboa* dam Camilla, by Tr. iiihaiu. which in addition to Jerboa bred foar daughters in Young Camilla. CoMbri, Humming Bird and Catherine, all bjr Woodpecker. Occasional sire ami racing success is the heat that eaa be said for members of any of these different Camilla branches. To Young Camilla trace Manu.-Ila. Fisherman. Sard-lam. Stnithcoiian. Dr. Nets. Tarantella. King-craft. Royal Hampton, Mis Highness, etc. To tolibri strain Pelioa. Gouraav. Xunthorpe. Queen** Hirthday. Piob. -i.-in. Merman. Alvescot, Lore Wiselj and Veracity. The foundation mare for these hit tec two was Retreat bj Orlando and the Ketreat branch of the Colibri division as productive of good horses n, :,iu. Catheriae bred three daugh-tors, in sprit.-, by Beetail, a sjstor to Wanderer. and Slipper, by Precipitate, but aelther the sister to Wanderer nor Slipper branch has been productive of any really sensational horse. M.-ui o- Wars direct male aacestor lustrallau is a member of the Sptit.- by Bobtail divi-ion , f flu- Catherine branch ,,: the ainilla family. Camilla* dam Coquette was a daughter or a sister I,. the famous Regal** bjr Tile GodolnhlB Arabian, which mare was utsu I be dam of a mare by Snap and to tie- Snap man- runs iuiccioli. dam of lUrdkatcber and Leumiagtoas tire raagh a Ballagh. sine.- Birdwatchers day. however, the Oaieciell branch of the family has aot been re- sponsibie r«r the producti-m of anything of aaas- nal merit. Winners, however, of course n - ;n,| of these which may possibly be gaed is Orhys two-year-old .Newbury winner, whose dam is a sister to Hruinmol and Itean. Par my part 1 am fi.e t,, admit I do not tin iterstaad the only occashmal aim. ar.-im-c of ,- ceptionlly meritorious members of family o. 11. When ffaed Ihej are of such exceeding merit as race horses, and as shea exert such an amasjug influence that .tie is lost in wonder as to the infrcipienoy of their appearance. — ♦
