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BEHAVE YOURSELF A NATIVE Kentucky Derby Winner of Stout ¬ est American Blood Nothing Fashionable About His HisAncestry Ancestry but of Native Worth What Books Show BY SALVATOR SALVATORI I made a trip of ten miles the Sunday morning after the Kentucky Derby was run in order to get my bands on the extended breeding of the winner Behave Yourself The ruling passion you ob ¬ serve and the necessity of gratifying it I had planned that this particular Sunday morning should be one of rest and relaxation But there was neither for me with my mind fidgeting persistently over the question What does Miss Kinglets the dam of Behave Yourself run back to To be frank I hadnt the slightest idea which of the fust famblics she belonged to And I was dying to know In order to satisfy my curiosity I made the trip returning therefrom a wiser and in some respects a sadder man manYes Yes in the words of the poet A feeling of sad ¬ ness came oer me a sadness that was almost akin to pain when first examining a tabulated pedigree Did you ever hear the story of the pedi ¬ gree expert who used occasionally to return to his domicile in the sma hours somewhat the worse for wear whose wife before she admitted him to the house used to make him say Tabulate your pedi ¬ gree Well thats what she did If he said it all right he was admitted But usually the Jin fortunate man would say Padulate your tebi Kree and then why then he had to sleep on the doorstep I then turned to the Stud Book and found Alack and alast what did I find Of course everybody interested in pedigrees knows by tills time l ecause the brutal facts have been dis ¬ seminated with more or less detail the said facts being that Behave Yourselfs ancestors failed to do so Not only does no magic figure dignify his maternal family certifying to ils Belgravian ori ¬ gin lint O tempora mores it goes to the woods with a directness and a celerity calculated ute the heartstrings of all believers in pur sang and chanters of the Bruce Lowe lit ¬ urgy urgyHere Here is the maternal ancestry of Behave Your ¬ self carried as far as it goes in the old style of scoring he game gameBehave Behave Yourself b c foaled 191S Bred by Mr E H Bradley Sire Marathon MarathonDfim Dfim Miss Ringlets by Handball HandballSecond Second dam Bessie by The Hi Used UsedThird Third dam Belle of Nantura by Tils Johnson JohnsonFourth Fourth dam Miss Helen by Endorser EndorserFiftli Fiftli dam Ellen Swigert by Hulwer HulwerSixth Sixth dam Cora by Trumpator TrumpatorSeventh Seventh dam Yellow Jacket by Albert AlbertEighth Eighth dam Mare by Union UnionNinth Ninth dam Mare by Tippou Sail SailFurther Further than this Colonel Bruce deposeth not notPURE PURE OLD AMERICAN BREEDING BREEDINGHowever However the worst is still to come There are no dates of foaling and no breeders recorded that is to say no exact and authentic information re ¬ garding any of these dams back of Ellen Swigcrt Ami if we take the various editions of the Stud Book for our guide we find that concerning Ellen herself there is some dubiety to say the leiist In the original first edition of Volume 1 published in ISO Ellen Swigcrt appears on page 330 as a agrey grey mare foaled bred by John L Howard Howardof of Missouri owned by John Harper of Woidford County Ky Her pedigree is almost as l if rs Byron avemd the love of woman to be She is given a sire Bulwer a dam Cora by Trmnpitor a second dam Yellow Jacket by Albert and thats the end of it itIn In 1S73 Col Bruce issued the revised and final edition of Volume 1 and on page 383 of that work Ellen Swigert reappeared having suffered something of a seachange She is still a giej mare foaled bred by John L Howard of Mis ¬ souri and owned by John Harper of Woodford County Ky But concerning her sire Bulwer we are told in parentheses that he was a son of Grey Eagle and besides a first and second dsia ns above given Ellen Swigert is given a third an1 fourth one namely Third dam by Union fourth dam by TIppoo Saili There also appears a llt of Ellen Swigerts produce beginning with lSj iind coming down to 1S71 1S71In In 1S7S Col Bruce issued Volume of the Stud Book and therein page 09 Ellen Swigert ap ¬ pears for the third and lat time having suffered still another seachange We are now informed that she was foaled 1851 that instead of being bred by John L Howard of Missouri she was not only owned but bred by John Harper of Wood ford County Ky Her pedigree remains thu same as before except that the sire of her third dam is given as Old Union not simply Union and her list of produce logins not in lSiiJ but in ISS rioting as before in 1S71 with the note appended Ellen died in 1871 We are also informed that the pedigree has been Corrected from Volume 1 1WHAT WHAT THE BOOK RECORDS SHOW SHOWThis This is really the basis upon which the pedigree of the winner of the richest Derby ever run in this world lesis The peculiar thing about it is the change in the breeder of the mire from John L Howard of Missouri to John Harper of Ken ¬ tucky and that this change was not registered until after John Harper was dead and the addi ¬ tion of two extra crosses subsequent to the original publication in the first edition of Volume 1 of the Stud Book BookThe The searcher searches in vain for any independent registry of either Cora by Trmnpator or Yellow Jacket by Albert given as the dam and granddam of Ellen Swigert No such mares are to be found anywhere recorded by Col Bruce BruceSo So much for the maternal line as we trace it back directly But when we attack it from another quarter an endeavor to get somewhere it is worse and worse and more of it As aforesaid the real foundation mare of the family is Kllen Swigcrt Her sire is given a Bulwer firstly and then as Bulwer son of roy Eagle But when we search the pages of the Stud Book we find that like the celebrated Mrs Harris there am t no such person Neither in the main body of any volume of any edition nor the appendices devoted to horses whose pedigrees are unextcnded or dams have no names can Bulwer be found Except as the supposed sire of Ellen Swigert no trace of him is discoverable Pnrativcly lie was a son of CSrcy Eagle but who or what he was or what his dam If e had one may have been nobody known knownmid mid in all probability nobody ever will know Wna he lile Wild Medley sire of Ophelia the dam of iroy Eagle himself and the fourth dam of Han ¬ over sire of Handball sire of Behave Yourselfs dam as Hidalgo once averred a myth HII 1iiown Again nolKMly knows But what we do know Is that Behave Yourself has won the Derby in true race horse style defeating therein a field that had been acclaimed the best that ever started for Mich HII event in America AmericaScon Scon another for one of the old American families which are not thoroughbreds thoroughbredsHere Here is a fiveline prdigree of Behave Yourself Doucastcr I Marlagoir Oalopin Kt AlIKOa AlIKOaBend Bend Or Shotover f Hindoo Bourbon Belle Keepsake fTho 11 Used fj i ossio T Jiclle Unit it of 7ils wii Johnson w t Naiitura jjiiss Helen
