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BRUCE LOWE NO. 12 FAMILY — -— ♦ — i Thoroughbred Division Led by the Great and Early Eclipse. ♦ — Lady Alicia Branch Most Productive of Winners — Oxford and Levity Among Stars. i % il.V EXILE. The reason nf f :j it il v No. IS being designated by Bruce Lowe a- I -ire family was, in nil probability, due li Ike fact that tliis i- tin- family of that best of .-ill progenitor-. Kclipse. In Hit- old day-, loo, Conductor, son of Matohem. the horse tiy which ihis lino is brought forward, is also I No. 12 horse, as are the Blaoklook niainsra.v. Voltaire, as well a- Oxford, his son Sterling. Adventurer. Scottish Chief. Mar-ya- anil More recently Springfield, araadsire at Bock Baad, Am-phion. sire of Sundridge abroad, and in this ootin-ir.v I/oxinglon and Vandal. Adventurer, in the mule line, i- a thine of the past. Mursyas fades away. Scottish Chief retires, hut Blacklnek. through Voltaire, carries bravely on because of St. Simon. The Springfield line. too. received much impetus from Kock Sand. In this country the light is out for the nnee all-powerful line of the No. 12 horse lycxiugton. A like fate awaits, it would seem, the V.iudnl-Cloncoe line to Herod, becau-e of Hanover neglect. As a running line, however, family No. 12 is good. Sterling traced to Solace, by Longwai-t and Chalet. Minstead and Cantilever to I.ongwaists Imlf ImmMBM Solute, t.y Mufclf i No really first -class sires, but many notable winners trace, with the exception of Voltaire, to the unnamed daughter of Ihfliitom. The Lady Alicia branch of the No. 12 family is most productive of winners. Uidy Alicia herself Is the ilalll of that good jumping -ire Ascetic, and to her also trace Amphion. sire of Snmlridgc. To Monimia. by Mnlcv. trace, through p.ilmyia. by Siillau. Springfield and Canary, and also, through Palmyras half-sister. Heresy, by Glaaeaa, Le Manly and The Duke. A good branch of the No. 12 family, too. i- that founded by the unnamed daughter of Orville, which bred the Oak- winner Mis- Lettx, dam of Weather-bit and Franoesoa. glainlilam of Adventurer. Mi — Lolly br.d also Mi Dear, by Plenipotentiary, grand-dam of Oxford, but otherwise no really influential h rse has eome from Ihi- particular blanch of the family. DAUGHTER OF ORVILLES GOOD BRANCH. The daughter «.f On ille traces back through an unnamed daughter of Buzzard and Hornpipe, by TruinpaC r. to Luna, by Herod, whose half -i-ter Hebe. I.v Crysditc. is IKMlllM of BsBOit, by Liverpool. To Bapeir traces that good French race marc I„i Camargo. as well as that first late New Zealaudeis Maxim and Lard Qaagk, To Lunas daughter by Alfred, -train by way of I©, by Tauru-. Ike Irince of the T. V. C. Prime Charlie, whose dam. Kasieru Prime—, i- kalf-«k*ter to Hester, by Thormanby. ance-tress of the French -bred Baalish racing —fee— Haki. Kingston, Hermit and Marsyas run back to the tap root by way of Carcia. by Ootavian. lutt none of the-e was found capable of -tarting a line f its own. True it is that the No. 12 horse Oxford sired Sterling. Voltaire, Voltigeur. Springfield and Sainfoin, but lor all this, a- a -ire family, family No. 12 i- something of a di-appointment. and is, I think, more of a running than a sire line, es- ■• tally when the non-success of Levity horses as sin- in this country is given due consideration. Ill- Levity branch of the No. 12 family is essentially a running family, as gord as the best. I.evliy hor o-. however, seemed doomed to failure as sin-. tovon Salvator could not make a go of it. Ornament was only partly -uccessful as a sire of winner- and left no son behind to carry on. This was the case skat with such, bsesea of •ji inline raiing merit a- Duke of Montro-e. Strath more. Luke Blackburn. Lemiatu-. Loagstl til, I he Hard. 1otomac. to niention lint a few of them. Therefore, the Levity branch of tin- Brace I-owe family .No. 12 cannot as said lo have accomplished anything wonderful in Hie sire line. In no way do I profess to undeistand the failure, or only partial siicee-s. of so many No. 12 hinsis a- sin- of sire-. Wealheibit. Adventurer. King-ion. .vl.u-.va-. Irince Charlie. Maxim, hatha!, i. The Nabob. A-cetii- and The Duke; every la- • of the-e failed as -in- of sins and the only No. 12 -ires which have boon found Capable of I Itiu-mii I ing sire ei-elleiii e. since tin- day- of Bc-lipae, are Oxford, his son Sterling. Voltaire. Anipliion and Springfield. Where la lie- tin- -ire weakni— of members of f ami ly No. 12.-
