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AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION HAS AMERICAN TAINT BY SALTVATOR SALTVATORThey They are holding summer meetings on the under side of the world nowadays which it is difficult for those of us who live on the upper side to realize and every mail from the Antipodes brings news of something in ¬ teresting To American horsemen however by far the most interesting figure just at present upon the Australian turf is Tom McCarthy though perhaps his name is al ¬ most unknown in this country It should not be however and the purpose of these paragraphs is to tell the reason why whyTom Tom McCarthy is a bay horse by Dorando Miss Oro by Sir Modred owned by the gentleman who races his stable under the name of J T Partner and trained by E Corben of Brisbane Queensland He is now seven years old under cur reckoning but six according to Australian Up to a fow months ago he had never been more than a local light in his own province but then suddenly developed sensational form one of his achievements being the lowenng of the Antipodean record for a mile and threeeighths from 21S 4 to 217U at his home town of Brisbane over the Ascot course under the impost of 12D pounds His form encouraged his people to ship him to the Rniulwicl meeting at Sydney the racing metropolis of Australia and theie on the first day of the new year he distinguished himself by winning the Tattersalls Club Cup an event worth about 8000 to the victor at a mile and a half which distance he negotiated in 2331 under 122 pounds beating a strong field of eleven of which he started second choice at 5 to 1 He led all the way and won as he liked by two lengths lengthsHISTORY HISTORY OF TOM MCCARTHY MCCARTHYThe The history of Tom McCarthy illustrates forcibly the contention that the thoroughbred is the nearest to being an universal animal of all domestic breeds of live stock Briefly sketched it is as follows In 1915 the late Francis Hoy of the Mon ¬ astery Stud imported from Kngland to Aus tialia a fourteenyearold brood marc that he had picked up for a trifle in the mother country She was called Miss Oro was Americanbred and was with foal by Do ¬ rando then a young horse but recently put to the stud where his career was short as he died in 1919 at the age of eleven years Dorando was a magnificently bred stallion being by Cyllene from Nadejda sister of Persimmon Florizel II Diamond Jubilee etc by St Simon He had been a race horse of class but was considered difficult to train His winnings included a number j of important handicaps in which he handled high weights his favorite distance being a mile mileMiss Miss Oro carrying her Dorando foal ar ¬ rived in Australia in the late fall of 1915 and produced the next spring a bay colt the Tom McCarthy of today Owing to the death of her owner she was sold with the rest of his stud in 1919 when so little was thought of her that she brought but 22 guineas little over 100 At the same sale Tom McCarthy then under Australian rules a twoyearold and untried brought but 75 guineas Soon after he was resold for 100 guineas and taken to Queensland where he developed eventually into a crack crackAnd And now to come to the most interesting part of the tale to the American reader Miss Oro as above said was bred in Amer ¬ ica She was foaled in 1901 and first saw the light at J B Haggins famous establish ¬ ment Rancho del Paso in California She was put to breeding rather early produced but one or two foals in America and was one of the several consignments of thoroughbreds I that Mr Haggin shipped to England and sold about a dozen years ago during the slump in our affairs due to repressive legislation There she evidently found scant favor and in two or three years more was on hcr way to the Antipodes whence her sire Sir Modred had been imported to California by Mr Hag gin in 1SSC 1SSCMiss Miss Oro by Sir Modred as stated was from Orellana one of the few foals got by Ormonde the horse of the century after his importation to America by W OB Mc Donough in 1893 at the then record price of 150000 from the Argentine whither he had been sold a few seasons before by his breeder the Duke of Westminster Perhaps it was this Ormonde cross that persuaded Mr Haggin to send Miss Oro to England as the blood of that horse was scarce and highly prized there But in this he was disappointed for British breeders looked with disapproval on the mare owing to the fact that she was not according to the Weatherby canon pur sang her maternal line being outside the pale of the General Stud Book BookDESCENDANT DESCENDANT OF GLEXGAKHY GLEXGAKHYOrellana Orellana bred by Mr McDonough at his Menlo Park Stud which was adjacent to Leland Stanfords great Palo Alto Stud in Santa Clara County California was from Marilee a successful race mare by imported Glengarry It is interesting to note at this point that Glendew another daughter of Gengarry owned at Palo Alto there pro duced when mated with Flood son of No 1 folk the celebrated marc Gje r a brilliant performer later a brood mare ut l lancho dJ Paso and there crossed with Darebin the other Antipodean stallion imported by Mr Haggin along with Sir Modred produced Emma C the dam of Commando Marilee in turn was from Patino by Pat Malloy son of Lexington while her dam was no less a mare than old Sue AVashing 1 ton by Revenue one of the heroines of the three and fourmile heat antebellum era and a sister to Fanny Washington a still more redoubtable longdistance marc and beyond that the dam of a great family which included Eolus one of the best u s of imported Learn inrccvi tho sire of Iioi Eolian Eurus Elkwood and Knight of El lerslie the lastnamed sire of Henry of Xavarre XavarreThis This was one of the stoutest of the old American maternal lines Sue and Fanny Washington being from Sarah Washington another fourmile heat heroine and grand producer The taproot of the tribe was the oldtime imported mare Jenny Csmeron foaled probably some time in the ITCOs Jenny Cameron was imported by Colonel John Tayloe of Virginia says the American Stud Book said to be by a son of Fox A certificate of Colonel Tayloes dated 1773 makes her by Cuddy son of Fox from M Wittys famous mare Cabbagewise Neither can be substantiated in the English Stud Book Which however did not deter Col ¬ onel Bruce from giving her a beautiful gilt edged maternal extension as he recorded her as being from Miss Belvoir by Grey Grant ham and running back to the tiproot of the Bruce Lowe No 6 family Miss Oro arrived in England just about the time that the pur sang propaganda there was gaining full headway and the doors of the English Stud Book bangingto upon Bruceextended American families and all others from this side of the water not orthodox British in all crosses It is not strange that she found an unappreciative public and soon went into a still remoter exile at the under side of the world And there her status pursued her While she ap ¬ pears in volume 12 of the Australian Stud Book her entry was probably inadvertent and Tom McCarthy her smashing son does not appear there Says an Australian au ¬ thority because he is apparently ineligible for inclusion owing to the obscurity of his American parentage parentageTOM TOM MCCARTY XOT PUR SANG SANGAnd And there we have it again Tom McCar ¬ thy like many other modern champions is not pur sang He has the American taint But that doesnt prevent his going out and doing it not once but again and again Which must exasperate the breeding tories but exhilarates the radicals radicalsHere Here as a matter of interest is the tabu ¬ lated pedigree of Tom McCarthy lene f fa a iata y P Isonomy Distant Shore g S 1 Orillana Ormonde ll A nes 1 f ilensarry Ulanlcc T M I Patino PatinoThough Though beyond the pale it must be ad ¬ mitted that Tom McCarthy Is a very well bred rtlnner He is a double Bend Or with the blood of Isonomy and St Simon crossed in paternally and a maternal foundation of one of the strongest of the old American families There is small reason to doubt that the last authentic dam in the direct maternal line old Jenny Cameron vas an imported English mare Probably she was as well bred as any of her day for Colon I Tayloe was a connoisseur in bits o blood But how she was bred nobody knows And even provided she was really ortliodcx ortliodcxj of the orthodox the pedigree is ruined from the pur sang viewpoint because thoso pernicious Lexington Revenue and other early American crosses which Newmarket today holds in sucli abhorrence abhorrenceI I have said that Tom McCarthys history well illustrates that fact that the thoroiigh bTed is the universal horse Consider the various remote corners of the earth that fig ¬ ure in it He was bred in England but foaled in Australia His dam was bred in Califor ¬ nia but her sire came from New Zealand And her dam in turn was by a horsa Or ¬ monde that while bred in England came to America via the Argentine Moraover Cyllene paternal gnmdsire of Tom McCar ¬ thy had gone from England to the Argentine several years before his dam Miss Oro went from this country to England there to bo mated with Dorando a horse foaled the same year 190S that his sire was exporte1 to South America In addition Bona Vista sire of Cyllene had been exiled from Eng ¬ land to Hungary in 1897 What an interna ¬ tional network uniting how many different lands continents rather in its warp and woof
