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I J J I j SISTER OLIVES GOOD BLOOD Melbourne Cup Winner of Bend Or Line— Those of St. Simon Considered. BY SALYATOR. The victory of Sister Dlive in the Melbourne Pup race for 1021 is interesting from all angles. The catataeal upon it that s|„. ,H --the first filly to win in twenty six years.* is perhaps Blightly inaccurate, for Auraria. the winner twenty-six years ago 1891. was nor a filly, but a five-year-old mare. The eoin-p!t te list of winners of tins greatest of Antipodean classic,, as given in The American Racing Manual, shows that since the inauguration of the event in US] hut ne three-year-old filly had finished first prior to Sister Olive. That was Brlseis. victor in lS7d. or just forty-five years since. She carried tun eighty-t iglit pounds and ran her two miles in f!:.".d. Which established a new record for the event, the previous one having been the 3:3Ht+ of Don .luan in IS;:;. Sister Olife carried ninety-three pounds and ran her two miles in 3:274: the present record for the Melbourne Cup being .LLMVi. established two years ago by Artilleryman, which was a three-year-oid colt and carried UI4 pounds. Sister Olive is by Red BvulB. son of Tredennis, he a grandson of Read Or through Kendal: and this reminds me of the fact that not long ago an ar qaaiataact came at me with the argument that the Read or-s were a aprmtbaf tribe. When asked or his authority far this aoaaewkal surpiisiug assertion he cited the recent table whih appeared in the •• Stock Breeders Review, in which, according to siat.sth . ••, f ;, sort. that fact i V was developed. The aaperatitieaa resaid for atatlatiea is aaaa of those things which has to be sweated out of ones bones, or one eOBBea ;o see flesh and Head hotses mcroh is representative* of figures of one sort or •Bother. One rietiaB of ..hsessiou sees all thoroughbreds merely ;i- Brine Lowe figures Another sees Ibeaa factora in aeaae other sort of a statistical snmmaiy. And that wav not perhaps inaiines-, but ceriainly vagary. Ilea. I errlte as one who aforetime suffered freaa each delusions and was a mag while rariag myself thereof; or. rather, in getting cured by M.e harie of eveats, to which figures and tables have, ou tiie whole, bin ihe most eiirsory meaning There i~ maeh aryaaieat aawadaya aaeat the re-apective merits of the Read Or and St. Simon fami lies and it is contended by the adherents of Ihe Salter that its inemh.es , •„ g*j fat i her. This con t.iiiion mighi In. maintained froafl now until dooms day without g.-iting aaywheie, for the simple reflBBM that, lis area ; marked rcaeratioaa ago. "Tea raa move nut: m- by the Ctad Rook or Raciac calendar." rhe families of both Read Or md Si. Simon have alike produced graad stayers and brilliant sprinters. Roth of tbeai will probably coniiuiio to do so until. in i in- fullness of time. or the other, or possjhly both, ... e le o. . -npy Die "seiits of the mightv- lh I .onitirh: or whi.h tiny are now the snb- jiis ..r vi. tiois — becomes devqted to other strtiins.
