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Here and There on the Turf ! Allumeur s Chance for Fame. Rancocas Studs First Wir- 1 ner. Home Bred Stakes Future. Injured Pimlico Futurity Runners. Owner of Two Champions. American Blood in. France. The high-class racing of Sallys Alley leads to the hope that some arrangement may be made with Uncle Sam through which her daddy, Allumeur, may become steadily available to owners of well-bred brood marts. Allumeurs sire, Meddler, was one of the great sires of American history and his daughters are almost priceless. But none of his sons had made a mark in our breeding until Sallys Alley arrived to say through her deeds on the race track that her father may be Meddlers one son capable of carrying on his male line to ths glory of his name and the benefit of American racing and breeding. Allumeur is i eleven years old and right in his prime as a stallion. Being by an English-bred horse, dam an English-bred mare, he is in blood purely an English horse himself. This is not necessarily . a patent to preference, although the circumstance . appeals to many. But handsome . is as handsome does, and in Sallys Alley Allumeur . has qualified handsomely in the way of i proving his ability to generate racing gems 5 of a high order. American bred, English bred 1 or French bred, that is any stallions only path t to popularity and usefulness. The inauguration of the Pimlico Home Bred I Stakes at Pimlico auspiciously began an annual I race that is sure to grow in importance. This 5 race requires that all eligibles shall be the property . of the breeder at the time of starting and 1 to have been his property from the time of f foaling. This was its initial decision and, with 1 eight starters, the prize went to the most recent . recruit to breeding of all those who sent t a horse to the post. Rigel, from the Rancocas 5 Stable, was returned the winner and is of f the first crop that has been bred by Harry F. Sinclair and Samuel C. Hildreth. To win the e son of Ballot and Pictons Pride triumphed over those sent to the post by such sportsmen-breeders 1- as Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentrec c Stable, with two carrying her silks; Harry y Payne Whitney, who for many years has been n foremost of the breeders with his big Brook-dale Farm in New Jersey; Edward B. McLean, 1; who has sent many a good one to the races ;s from his Virginia farm; August Belmont, whose Nursery Stud has long been one of the e most famous of American thoroughbred breeding J- establishments; the Sanford Stud Farm of f John Sanford, one of the oldest of the New w York thoroughbred stock farms- and long famous i- as Hurricana; Edward R. Bradleys Idle Ie Hour Stock Farm, another that has . long g since grown to fame in the thoroughbred production, - and George Wingfields Nevada Stock k Farm, another that has b?en doing its share e ! 1 i . . . . i 5 1 t I I 5 . 1 f 1 . t 5 f e 1- c y n 1; ;s e J- of f w i- Ie g - k e of thoroughbred production for a lesser time. To best such breeders as these was an accomplishment that must have been particularly gratifying to Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Hildreth and it at once adds to the popularily of the race that was conceived by Frank J. d Bryan. One criticism of the race was that it would be dominated by two or three breed- 2 1 ers and that others would have no chance against them. Just for that, in the first run- 4 4 J 5 ning the newest of the American breeders who had a starter took the prize. C iT The running of the double Pimlico Futurity on Saturday, and the decision to have the j 1 Pimlico Futurity Cup for the four horses that 2 shared in the money in the two 0,000 prizes, 3 had its effect on the field for the Home Bred j 4 Stakes and, doubtless, had much -to do with Rigel being returned the winner. Willis 5 Sharpe Kilmer, owner and breeder of the 6 queenly Saljys Alley, had intended to start 7 her in the Home Bred Stakes. In fact, he was particularly desirous to send her to the post in that race on account of its sporting appeal. 2 But after the daughter of Allumeur and Sal-volatile had won the second part of the Pini- lico Futurity, he was sportsman enough to forego the pleasure of matching her against the other breeders to start her in the Cup. The Cup was only a race for a trophy, while the Home Bred Stakes is a race that is bound to have a history. But in appreciation of the liberality of the Maryland Jockey Club in giving two great stake races instead of one in the Pimlico Futurity, he at once sacrificed his chances in the Home Bred Stakes. It would be too much to expect of even as good a filly as Sallys Alley to race Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Other sportsmen who had engagements in the Home Bred Stakes, and whose horses earned the right to start in the Pimlico Futurity Cup also agreed to do the sporting thing and start in the cup. They withdrew from the Home-Bred in its favor and it was not their fault that this Futuri.y Cup-should dwindle so before post time. Th? Pimlico Fnturty and its double running exacted a severe toll from .some of the start ers, but there was nevsr an easily won chant- 1 1 pionship that was not an empty title. Edward ! R. Bradleys Blossom Time, the gallant win-j ner of tli2 first division of the 0,000 race, j came out of the race in bad condition. She has been so lame since her triumph that it is not expected she will be raced again this year. J. S. Wards Donges, which finished second, is reported lame as the result of a cracked heel that opened rather alarmingly Saturday. Sandy McNaughtons Little Celt, though not suffering any serious or permanent injury, is not in condition to race by reason of a leg injury, and even August Belmonts fiily How Fair, wind; ran such an impressve race in the .irsl division to finish fourth, lias been nodding a bit nice her ;acs. Then, hi the second division while SauVs Alley, the easy winner, and J. 3. Cosdent Martingale, which ran second, both came rut of the racej none the worse for their experience, and Harry Payne Whitneys Rialto showetl no ill effects, My trv.11 wits not so fertilise. The Salubria Stables two-year-old vas in such bad condi-tion alter he cooled out that it was announced that he would not race again this year, al-1 though he was being pointed for the Walden Stakes. Thus it will be seen that five of the eight that :narcd in the money distribution were a bit the worse for wear at the end of that grueling mile. It is always unfortunate that a good horse of any ago s-hould go amiss, but after all racing the survival of the fit-t test. That is why the long-distance races are the only tests calculated to bring out all that is best in the horse. The champion must j be sound of wind and limb. He must have j the courage to win his turf battles and the stamina to stand up under his campaign. j Too many of our otherwise champions have J never attained the full measure of greatness j by reason of bodily disability. Horses by na- l ture able to race both fast and far have by i 1 reason of unsoundness failed of the crown. But soundness is a part of greatness and few, indeed, have been the champions who did not measure up to this standard There have been some, but their day was short-lived. They had everything but the necessary build to go on beating horses year after year. Without that soundness of wind and limb no champion has held his proud place long. Just now Mr. Kilmer seems to have two champions. Sallys Alley, winner of both the historic Futurity at Belmont Park and the Pimlico Futurity at Pimlico, came out of both races probably in better condition than any of the horses that finished behind her. She has measured up to the qualification of being sound in wind and limb, while her victories have proved her fleetness of foot and her gameness. The other is old Exterminator. Any horse that can go along as he has done year after year, meeting and beating all comers over all distances, must be sound of wind and limb. Exterminator stood the determining test on various occasions and Sallys Alley in her first season of racing has proved herself : worthy stable mate to the famous son of McGee and Fair Empress. The various successes of Pierre Wertheimers Epinard in France are particularly gratifying to August Belmont, for it was the chairman of the Jockey Club who bred Epine Blanche, the dam of this two-year-old sen-saUon, while on his sires side he goes through Badajo:: and Georgina to Tracadero, the sire of Tract rys third dam Poetess. Epine Blanche, the dam of Epinard, is a daughter of Rock Sand and White Thorn and White Thorn is a daughter I of Nasturtium and Thorn Blossom. Mated with Hastings, White Thorn produced Hawthorn in 1910, one of the best two-year olds of 1912. Then in 1911 she produced Thorn-hill, by Hastings. The following year she was barren to Hastings and after being mated with Rock Sand the following year was shipped to France by Mr. Belmont. It was there that she foaled Epine Blanche, the dam of the b;st two-year-old racing in France today. Thus, it will be seen that the Epinard triumphs mean much to Mr. Belmont. Not only did he breed the dam of the wonderful colt, but on both sides of his stout pedigree the latter traces to Bzlmont horses and he has a double cross of Rock Sand, the great stallion Mr. Belmont imported to this country to the lasting good of the American thoroughbred.
