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BRUCE LOWE NO. 14 FAMILY i • _, Group of Potent and Virile Sires and Brood Mares. i ♦ i The Most Influential Branches — Leamington and Tetratema Are Both Fourteeners. i BY FN ILK. 1 | Mtaj and good race heroes. ■■ w.-l :iv influential sires, are descended ill the female liar from tin- nidficiii mare, the tap i -..r of tin- No. 14 family. Tin- best f Iknr is tin- St. Leger and Ascot GeM Cup winner Touchstone. Macaroni, how-ever, as ■ breed Mare sin- is uiu celled. Leamiag- tnii did wmidiTs for tins country. CnUM] Fi.in.-ur -was a tower of strength in Australia. Babelais is tilt loading sire of France. Dar.-bin is tin- Miv of tlii dams ,if Commando. Geldsanith ami Africander. Buccaneer is an .-specially hhim fal continental sire. In fort, I la-li of tin- No. 1 I blood seems to lend strength and stability to any pedigree, ami Nn. 14 horses an- most rtMMc of liaasmltllag their own sir,, excellence to tin T sons. Tombstone was the aire of Sewmtnster, Orlando. lthiirt.l. ancestor of Muski-I. herd of the Isles, sire of Scottish Chief a-id Sandier. Macaroni, on account of his donldc Herod descent, was especially successful ! s a brood mare sire, though he sired ; such good sons as Mncgrogor, Remorse. Macaroon anil Muoheath. P.uccanecr is the sire of See Saw. Filibuster. Fenek. Kisber and Vert-din... and. besides. Matcliem. in the male line is handed on by the No. 14 hoiM- Trumpator. j All membeis of the No. 14 family nowadays trace back to i lit- original source by way of Alex-iiikI-i •« .l.iml.icr Pnadl i m, .-.hid. Itmuti four aaad foundation mares in Banter, by Master Henry: Bertha, by Habeas, Brunette, by Amianthus, and Briquette, uj Orrille. and to each one of laeee trace many good sires, as a/ell as race horses. To Banter, as the dam of Touchstone, must lie awarded the pride of dace. Baater is also the dam of The Libels dam. Pasqaiaade. From t his- spei i al brunch of I lit- family comes the leading French sire Rabelais. Banter alas bred Jocose, dam of Macaroni, ami is ancestress . f Carnival and Uraad Flaneur. Berthas daughter. Evening star, by Touchstone. foaled three good aredaciag ilaaghters in Water witch. Starlight and Daughter of the Star. The Watcrwitcn by Flying Dutchman branch of the family is held in high esteem in Australia and this is the immediate family of Darebia and other good antipodean winners. To Dn again I f the Star, by Kremlin, trace the Oaks winner Hippia. dam of Nellie, which latter bred Lady Lovcrule, • lain of the Derby winner Si. Amaut. . SOME OF BEST BRANCHES OF NO. 14 FAMILY. Bttinettea direct descendant in the female line, an unnamed daughter of Little Bed Barer, became the dam of Buccaneer and of I.ecky Sliarpc. by, Wild Barrell. and The Goidea Horn, by Harkaway. , • ioldeu Horn bred Wild »ats and Keverberat h n. and to her ahM trace Touchet. sire of that good producing mare in this country Fair Vision. The Colileu West ami Hue and Cry. granddam of the Derby winner Volsdycvskl and Atbleague. Etiquette, by Orrille. bred Maid of Honor to . the Dei by winner Champion, and Maid of Honor is tin- foundation mare of perhaps aa goad a branch . of the .No. 14 family as there i-. Maid of Honor became the dam .i line stars, i.url.-s.pie. Daphne , and Honoris, to which strain many of the best of this and other land-. To Barieeqae strain Ballot. Ben Stroine. Pride and Saraband. Daphne is the , graaddam of Leamington and aacestreas of Pretty Dolly and Cragaaoar. A w-.rd here as to the No. II sire line horse Leamington, on.- of the most influential for a time ; of all the horses Imported into this eoaatry. Leans- lagtaa himself was a pronounced -nms, as ;, sire of race horses -mil alsa as a sir,- , f sires. The j LeaMiagtofl line-, however, has fallen into decay, which can only be attributed 1" Hie reckless disregard of breeding by those rcspeasBrie for the , selection c I mates for the sons and grandsons of r Liis most worthy harse. Longfellow. Enquirer. . 1 eainington everyone in any way connected with bloodstock breeding is familiar with the attainments of these ;is sir,.s of winners, but what bus , become of their son- as sires? Their failure. 1 insist, is due to their having been mated with 1 Blares whose pedigrees are built up on a fonnda l ioti of sand. To il noria. by Cain, trace the daks winner Uehafmn and her sous Oddfellow and Freemason. No attempt has here ham made- to mak mention | ill anything like all of the famous race horses and sires which arc members of Hie No. It family. I My iily wish is to point to the fact that Nil horses, eijhcr for stud or race course use, are a safe investment Here is an inspiration. Everybody knows that speed is the ingredient in American racing of which !- American breeders now stand in need, because of lie de line of Hanover. A fresh introduction of II. rod blood will help. No. 14 horses, as a rule. arrive Ihelr worth as sin--, but niljbodj does not 1 know that the fastest hsCSC in Luglaiiel is the gray Hcrohl No. 11 none Tetratema. whose acquisition by some breeder lure would be ewal welcome and effective indeed. !
