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DR NEETS GOOD FORTUNE Story of Purchase of the Mares Cinderella and Tarantella Pair Cost Him Less Than 500 500and and Were Among Greatest GreatestBargains Bargains in Turf History NEW YOUK N Y March 5 The story of Dr 1 I Nect of Versailles Ky and the mares Cin ¬ derella and Tarantella should bo an incentive to livery man with facilities for keeping even a single thoroughbred matron to engage in what is one of the most fascinating occupations in connection with the soilblood horse production productionDr Dr Neet was regularly engaged in the practice of medicine but having that love for the thorough ¬ bred which is the heritage of all Kcntuekians he determined to buy a few mares and send them to the best hordes in his neighborhood He attended a sale of bloodstock at Lexington promoted by the Jate William Kaston at that time head of Tatter sails of America and an auctioneer of rare powers lr Neet bought a pair of threeyearold fillies in the consignment of Alfred Withers of Kngland They had some of the l est English strains of blood in their pedigrees Cinderella a bay in color being by Tomahawk or Blue Kiiin dam Manna by Brown Broad while the chestnut Tarantella was a daugh tcr of Peter by Hermit from Gentle Zitella by Blair Athol This pair of young English mares cost the country physician less than S500 and in the light of wlijit they accomplished in thestud they must be reckoned among the greatest bargains in the entire history of blood horse production studded as it is with romance Between them these mares whose names will adorn the pages of the racing history of the Inited States produced no less than thirtyone foals Of this number Tarantella had eighteen Cinderella had thirteen and lint for her we would have no Man o War as one of her earliest foals was the Meet Hastings sire of Fair Play which in turn begot Man o War the chaniiiion of his dayl While Tarantella has not exercised the same influence to date on American breeding she has given the turf many useful performers and some of her descend ¬ ants in the female line through Ogden Planudes and Top Gallant are certain to be heard from in the future futureIt It is a rare happening when a mare gives the turf two goud race horses lx th of which subse ¬ quently become successful sires but Cinderella ac ¬ complished this and she must IHJ regarded as a modern Pocahontsis through the excellence of her sons Hastings and Plaudit by Spendthrift and Himyar respectively Each of these horses raced with distinction and in the stud were noted for their prepotency Hastings foaled in 1SU3 will always be remembered as a horse of great speed but he could stay too as was demonstrated in his great struggle with Handspring for the Belmont Stakes at Morris Park in 1805 It was the best race of the year the colts running nose and nose all through the stretch Handspring had beaten the Belmont champion a head for the Withers Stakes sit si mile and the meeting of the pair in the longei race was eagerly awsiited Hastings came from behind his rival smd won on the post At the same meeting Hastings won the Toboggan Handicap then sis now n sprinting classic at six furlongs furlongsPLAUDIT PLAUDIT GREAT RACE HORSE HORSEilaudil ilaudil was also i firstclass nice horse achiev ¬ ing distinction by winning the Champagne Stakes with 127 pounds up in addition to the Nursery Handicap in which he was allotted 12 pounds The nice however which set the seal of greatness upon his twoyearold career was when he van ¬ quished the redoubtable Hen Brush then a four yearold and at the top of his form in a liandicaf sit a mile and a sixteenth Great things were proph j esied for him as a threeyearold and Plaudit jus ¬ tified the good opinions of his admirers by winning j the Kentucky and Oakley Derbys as well as the j Clark and Buckeye Stakes j The test of a sire is his ability to get a greater i horse than himself and this both Hastings and Plaudit accomplished by fathering Fair Play and King James Fair Play in getting Man o War demonstrated hia matchless prepotency but King lames has yet to give the turf his equal in speed and courage The greatness of Cinderella attested itself in foaling such heroes as Hastings and Plaudit to different sires while she produced Hand ¬ some and Glenheim both stake winners when mated with Hsiaover Her daughter Slippers by Meddler is one of the most highly prized of the Whitney brood mares maresTarantella Tarantella whoso record for fecundity has sel ¬ dom been equaled threw winners indiscriminately her eighteen foals iKing by fifteen different sires commencing with Jils Johnson and winding up with Planudes She was first bred in 1888 and produced the filly Anatella as the result of the union with Planudes in 190 Her best winner by the records was Joe Madden by Yankee foaled in 100 when she was twentyone years old This colt won the Belmont Stakes the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Derbys and the Prospect Handicap at three His winnings that year in the colors of S C Hildreth amounted to more than 10000 Pentecost by Hastings was a fast horse but un ¬ sound He was second to Gold Heels in the Suburban and third to Heina and Advance Guard in the Brooklyn Handicap when he was a thrw yearold Handsel by Hanover Avon the WJiite Plnins Handicap and other good races anil was a wonder in the in ml He transmitted this quality to his progeny in the stud Penuiy and Whirl by Spendthrift and Plaudit respectively were fast while Amalfi by The Scribe was one of the tough ¬ est horses the American turf has ever known He was fast too as was shown by his mile in l3iVi over the trotting course at Syracuse in 1014 1014Dr Dr Ntvt never had more than half a dozen mares at a time but they had the run of 100 acres of blue grass He bred many winners in addition to those from Cinderella and Tarantella hut those English mares arc the ones that have made his name si uoutehuld word wherever the thoroughbred is tuown
