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The Stock Farms of Kentucky By W S VOSBURGH IIL FARAWAY AND HINATA To visit the stud farms of Kentucky an not see Man o War is a sin of omissio of which no follower of racing would tcj guilty and it was late in the afternoon under a leaden sky that we reached the headquarters of the horse of the decade The air was damp and chilling as we drew up to the Faraway Stud as Mr Pdddle calls it The horse made his season of 192122 at Miss Daingerfields Hayland Stud and only recently Mr Kiddle removed him and his mares to the new establishment Every ¬ thing bore evidence of recent occupation everything was new the stabling fresh and bright while the colored grooms were pre ¬ paring to close up for the night and seek shelter from the piercing cold coldMan Man o War occupies one of Man 0 War the largest boxes to be found at any of the farms We found him standing deep in straw his head erect as of old He has filled out considerably but is not as beefy as we had heard he was Since leaving the training stable he has grown quite calm none of that starting and staring that marked him whon in condition His personnel is as impressive as ever stat ¬ uesque and imperious and recalls a tlood of recollections his Stuyvesent Handicap ow Hand and finished with his head in his chest his AVithers when he tried to run away before the start and then carried Wild air off his feet his Belmont when he fright encd off all opposition except that of the eautiful Donnacona when he made her look ike a hack his Dwyer when he answered vtimmers call and drew away from John P Crier amid a scene such as seldom has hap ¬ pened on a race course Miss Daiiigertield who has charge of the farm was not present and thus we were denied the pleasure of complimenting her on the evidences of good management that mark the place placeThe The future of Man o War Wan o Wars ns a src is a subject eagerly uture discussed wherever racing racingmen men congregate Will he ail as did several of our greatest racers Salvator Luke Blackburn Ornament while Hindoo great racer as he was has only Han ¬ over to save him a place among the sires Dr will Man o War transmit his own excel ¬ lence as did Sir Dixon Hanover Hamburg and The Finn It is not safe always to assume that a great racer will prove a great sire It is the same in rwspcct to the intcl ectual qualities of the human race It was the fortune of three of the greatest public men of the Georgian era Lord Chatham Lord Holland and Mr Edmund Burke that all had sons whose abilities equaled their own ownThey They were brilliant exceptions But what ¬ ever may be the fate of Man o War as a sire his fame as a race horse is secure We have heard it affirmed that he never defeated a good horse but we have heard that said of every horse of prominence We also have heard it claimed that he was the greatest racer of all time That is easier to say than to prove as there is no means of comparing racers of different periods He was superior to any horse he met and that is as much as we can say of any horse From the standpoint of time his perform ¬ ances were out of the ordinary Five times he established a best on record And panting time toiled after him in vain Golden Broom occupies a Golden Broom 10 opposite to Man o War He has the same exquisite golden chestnut color of his sire Sweeper while in outline and markings he favors his maternal grandsire Hamburg In training he had Hamburgs action low close to the ground the kind that steals away the inches A more beautiful creature could hardly be imagined than Golden Broom that summer day when he won the Saratoga Special True with it his sun rose and set but it proved his class and inscribed his name with those of Sysonby Irish Lad Ilegret Roamer Campfire and Sun Briar as a winner of our greatest real snorting sweepstakes sweepstakesStar Star Hampton is also in resi Star Hampton dence at the Faraway Stud with Man o War and Golden Broom and thus forms one of the Glen Rid ¬ dleJeffords triumvirate A handsome horse he always was and a good race horse al ¬ though he never attained the celebrity of his companions Yet it may have been writ ten in the sibylline pages of blood horse fate that he will outbreed them both Such in ¬ stances are not rare The despised Virgil outbred his more favored companions Monai chist and Bay wood at Elmendorf Broomstick outbred the great Troubadour Hastings out bred Henry of Navarre and in England the handicap horse Advntunr outbred all his companions at the Sheffield Lane Stud We often read that the Epsom Derby is the test for sires yet it has not proved so for in the last thirty years only three Derby winners were sired by Derby winners winnersI I know you youre the Man 0 Wars handicapper observed the old Weanlings colored rnan in charge adding I used to work for Mr Keene Our unannounced identity thus dis ¬ covered nothing must do but that we be shown Man o Wars weanlings And there in the fading light of the cold wintry day the grooms trotted out one by one the first offspring of the hero of the black with yel ¬ low hoops The cold was increasing every minute arid we were compelled between times to seek shelter behind the stable while Mr George and Mr Tom Welsh had their hands deep in their coat pockets and turned up their collars Of course the weanlings were thus shown under great disadvantage com ¬ ing out with their coats rough in the chilling air but among the lot we noticed a brown colt from Colinctte by Colin a chestnut from Understudy and a filly from the fine marc Smoky Lamp They are fairly well grown and scorn to be thriving Seen un ¬ der more favorable conditions they would probably evoke more commendations Be ¬ sides it was quite dark by the time the last one was brought out and we climbed into the motor car and made haste to seek the genial warmth of the log fire blazing on the El mendorf hearth hearthThe The race horses of Mr The Master of Ceorge D Widener are bred Erdenheim at tMe olu Erdenheirn Farm at Chestnut Hill near Phila ¬ delphia the famous establishment where Leamington Alarm and Reform reigned in j turn and where Leamington Maggie B B j and the noted trotter Flora Temple are buried and their graves marked It was in the days of the late Mr Aristides Welch the most successful producer of race horses in all America It was there Iroquois the winner of the Epsom Derby and Doncastcr St Leger was foaled as well as Harold Parole On ondaga Spinaway Sensation Blazes Saun terer Hyder Ali Susquehanna and Parrique were bred from a stud of mares that seldom numbered more than ten or twelve twelveRecently Recently Mr Widener WidenerHinata Hinata Stud as leased quarters at the theHinata Hinata Stud in Kentucky in order to have access to the different stallions Some time ago he sent thirteen of his brood mares there where we had the pleasure of inspecting them in his company Eight of them are imported Catana 190S is a bay by Galeazzo from Catgut by Lac tantius and is one of the best in appear ¬ ances Farce 1914 is a bay by Hire aux Larmes from Armenia dam of Durbar II winner of the Epsom Derby by Meddkr Messalina 1911 is a bay by Cicero from Raindrop by Florizel II IIAt At Once 1908 is a chestnut by Simon tault from Tout Suite by Sainfoin Crepuscule 1914 is a bay by Meddler from Strike a Light by Donovan and this is a full sister to the sire of Sallys Alley Duckshot 1908 is a brown by Gallinule from Kill Hill by j Kilcock Samberia 1915 is a bay by San try from Tiberia by Bend Or Gipsy Hill 1910 is a bay by Avington from Swiftsurc y Wisdom The native mares are Fem ¬ inist 1113 a chestnut by Voter from Belle of Ashland by Ornament Lady Hillington 19 13 a brown by Garry Herrmann from Golden Rose by Goldfinch Mile Dazie 1913 a brown by Garry Herrmann from Toggery by Rock Sand Playcanny 1918 a jay by Fair Play from Tuscany by Rock Sand and Star of Danube 1910 a chestnut by Star Shoot Blue Danube by Hindoo HindooStar Star of Danube is a plain Homebreds looking mare but blocky and substantial and one of the best of the lot Mr Widener is intent upon form ng a stud such as will enable him to race lorscs of his own breeding almost exclusively he being imbued with the real oldfashioned sporting principle which influenced the late Mr Withers Mr Francis Morris and Gover ¬ nor Bowie Those gentlemen found more satisfaction and considered it a greater lionor to win with a horse of their own breeding than with one acquired by pur ¬ chase Already he has at home the French bred sire Trompe la Mort winner of the Metropolitan the first of whose progeny will race the coming season seasonTrompe Trompe la Mort is a son sonTrompe Trompe la Mort of Verwood one of the few horses of the male line of Wild Dayrell His dam Marsa was one of the best mares in France a daughter of Adam and tracing in maternal line to Madame Eglantine dam of The Palmer and Rosicrucian Mr Widener believes in giving his colts names suggestive of their breeding but he confesses it difficult in the case of Trompe la Morts colts It is usually so in translating foreign names For instance Dr Johnsons famous essays called The Rambler which the Italians translated lit ¬ erally but ludicrously as II Vagabondo and during the late war Captain Hamilton Fish of New York had the horror to find the French newspapers allude to him as Jambon Poisson PoissonMr Mr Wideners mares will receive several additions during the season Among them possibly will be the very speedy Last Straw a daughter of Ultimus Among horsemen there is a growing belief that the daughters of Ultimus arc the coming brood mares as it is noticeable that those very speedy mares even those that are nonstayers zreed the highest class colts The dam of St Simon could not win at threcTquarters nor could the dams of Cyllene Santoi Doricles and many others In this country the dam of the renowned Harry Bassett was a miser ¬ able little thing that could not stay Mr Wideners mares arc under the management of Mr William M King which is a guaran ¬ tee of success for are we not told that the king can do no wrong wrongTo To visit Lexington without An Evening at calling at the Phoenix Hotel the Phoenix would be like visiting Rome without seeing St Peters for the fame of the Phoenix is worldwide and in age is almost as old as the city The old house however has been renovated and is quite up to date For more than half a century it has been the resort whcrc horse ¬ men congregate and compare notes and the evening we dropped in was no exception Mr Walter Parmer big and hearty was there to tell of Windsor s successful racing Mr Davis was on hand eloquent on the sub ¬ ject of racing and the curing of hams Mr Garrett Watts was engaged in animated con ¬ versation with Mr Howard Lewis on the merits of a colt by Peter Quince from a Peep o Day mare the finest colt in Kentucky sir We miss Mr or rather Major Mc ¬ Donnell who we hear is in Louisville and Mr Stuart Hunter informs us that Senator Camden is also out of town But Mr San ford Lyne is hero He neglects to repeat the story of Frank Gills foaling but is full of gossip nevertheless There has he tells us been a marriage MI the part of a young lady one of the best families and a stranger that has set all Lexington by the ears nobody knows anything about him One by one horsemen drop in and lounge in the easychairs The latest sales are dis ¬ cussed the merits of Fair Piny and The Finn as sires are disputed the racing quali ¬ ties of Grey Lag and Exterminator are fought out and who has the best tried year ¬ lings told in undertones We had heard a great deal of the bar of Phoenix and saw the horse Bar of Phoenix race but saw no evidence of it Prohibition had laid its hands heavily on the land of distilled rye
