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1 ! ; ! . j . i ■ i . . ! • ; ; - : i ~ | :. I ._ I BRUCE LOWE NO. 20 FAMILY1 ♦ Brave Band From Which Hanovers Sire Virgil Came. Notable Blow Administered to Figure System by Hanovers Greatness Is Suggested. — ♦ - i Ii V EXILE. As either a sire or reaming family No. 26 i-seenetkiag of a disappointment. In England no Strang line to Herod, Matches* or BcUpae Is bronchi forward by a No. 2g horse. In France the No. 20 horse l.e Sngittairc is the sire of Mala- tenon and Osama, the former the sire of a number of good winners, and one of his sons, perhaps, in the future may be fomaf capable of perpetuating this line to l.e Sancy. In New Zealand some year- ngO the No. 2" sir,. Traducer stood high, for this brown son of The l.j|„.| and ArettaM aired, between 1NCi7 and 1881, no less than nine winners of the Canterbury Jockey Club Derby, anions: them Sir Madrid, which 1 fear has failed as a sire of -i:vs. 1 do noi pretend to know the present standing of the Traducer line in Maori land Probably the best and most influential No. SO transmitter of sire characteristics was Hanovers graadsin Virgil, but now comes the question: Is Hanover in the male line to be swept aside.- Come to think of it. Hanover was aae of the most as tonishing of all bones in spit., of his membership in the No. 13 family and that his | landslip Virgil was a No. 20 horse. His success as a race horse. . site of race horses, sites and brood maics is | absolute and the only one thing Inching is a male desceat to carry on. If he be found, then llnn-: over will bare smashed to smithereens every tradl Hon of the Stud Beak. LOCUSTS DISTINGUISHED DAUGHTER. An unnamed daughter of Locks! is i he Martian. point fee the i wo divergent bra aches of the No. 28 family. This Lecaat mare bred two daughters, the one by Turk and the other. Crocs dam, by Alfred The hitter, the founder of a much smaller branch of the- family than that set coinc by i lie daughter - of Turk. To Crops dam trace Julius and all the j i Nun Applet. .ii family, as well as the leader of | t Frances forlorn No. 20 hop.-. !,*■ Bagittaire. The unnamed daughter of Turk bred two da Ugh-ten in a sister to Fanny and a sister to Sword- . man. To Fanny- sister trace Friar Marcus, King James i France i. Xeny. the .iumpinc sire Royal . j Mouth, etc.. but the bc-t of the lurk mare branch is handed on by the sister to Sword-man. w ho-e female descendant Languid 1880, by Calls, bred the Oaks winner Chuznoe. by Pantaloon Herod, and Arethiis.-i. dam of Traducer and Fcrnhill. Chuznce beraetf i- the dam of Assault, Storm and five daaghters -Bscalade, Beamde, Terrific. Attack I j and Meeanee all of them by Touchstone. To all | of these trace many gead and likel] winnera. I I | Meeanee and Escalade arc tie-1. INcaladc bred ] lascine .-mil Sortie, by Metbaarae, and Baroness, bj j Stockwell. Sortie the dam of RIenelgs sire Citadel, and is al-., ai... -tic— af Ore] Plume. Repulse. . Hon dii Combat and others. The best of all of the No. 20 foundation mares however, is nuajuestioaably Meeanee. which bred Leila to Melbourne, and to Leila trace the Oaks wiincr Jenny Hewlett, hittabob. st. Porian, sin ! of Aid Patrick, the Derby winner Tacalic: Symington, yet another No. 28 horse which so far has not sired a son to brine forward his line; the Oaks winner Musa and her daughter MIrske, Masa-ggaj, Martinet, and the brothers Magic and Back- : wheal, the Hitter of which i- away to Australia. when he i- taraiag out mod wianen in profusion. It remains to be seen if he is gsad enouch in that faraway lountrv to overcome the non sire transmission hoodoo Which seems to go with a No. JO horse.
