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TRANQUILS BLOOD LINES St. Leger Winners Dam Was From Mare Sold for 75. Traces to Same Family as Ogdcn and Other Horses That Have Made Turf nistory In This Country and in England. BY E. E. COUSSELL. LONDON, England, Sept. 18. Gondolette, which bred the dam of the St. Leger winner Tranquil, is a remarkable mare. Now twenty-one years of age she has produced eight winners from nine foals. Gondolettes only failure is her first born, which she foaled when six years old. This filly, .however, managed to run second in a race. When Lord Westbury sold his race horses in training at Newmarket in October, 1905, Gondolette was purchased by Lord Waver-tree then Colonel Hall Walker for ,800. For him she bred Lolette, Great Sport, Dola-bella and Let Fly. Between them they won 3,700 in stakes. Let Fly ran second to Pommern in the Derby and Greta Sport was third to Aboyeur in the same race two years earlier. Moreover, Colonel Hall Walker received 0,000 for Let Fly when he sold him as a stallion to Argentine, where he died a couple of years ago. Lolette also brought a big price when acquired privately by the late Lionel Robinson. LORD DERBY BUYS GONDOLETTE. Lord Wavertree sold Gondolette for ,750 in the December sales of 1912. Lord Derby bought her. She was a daughter of Loved One, also the sire of Sunstars dam. He is a son of that great mare Pilgrimage. Lord Derbys famous stallions Chaucer and Swyn-ford are grandsons of Pilgrimage. It was thought the blood would "nick." It has cer-tainl assimilated to a notable extent. Gondolette was in foal to Minoru. Her first produce for Lord Derby was the filly Serenissima, which won a couple of small three-year-old events. After a barren year came Ferry, a daughter of Swynford, which, in 1918, won the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket by a couple of lengths. Later on she dead-heated for second place in the Oaks. The "cross" , had apparently succeeded at the first attempt. For three years Gondolette was unlucky and looked a doubtful breeding proposition, for she produced dead twins in 1916 and in ; 1918, while she missed altogether in 1917. . Her foal of 1919 was the filly Casa dOro, by Chaucer, which was a winner at Newmarket as a three-year-old. Another barren year and then came San-sovino, which well enabled Lord Derby to make his first Gimcrack dinner speech at 1 York the next December. The son of Swyn-; ford has so far started twice, winning the . Ham Stakes at Goodwood and the "Gimcrack" at York. Gondolette has a bay yearling colt by Swynford. He is named Domen-. ico. Her foal is a bay filly by Stedfast, with which she was mated again this year. 1 It is worth mentioning that Gondolette was ! bred by the late Henry Waring at Beenham, which is not a great distance from Ascot, where Waring used to sell his yearlings in s the morning before racing. They rarely real-; ized big prices. Hence it is not surprising to find that Gondolette was purchased for . 75. ; The late Major Edwards bought her and trained her to win two races the next season. . In the second, the Epsom Juvenile Plate, she was badly away, but won by five lengths, . covering the five furlongs in 1:00. After the race Lord Westbury bought her for l ,000. For her new owner Gondolette won a two-year-old plate at Newmarket by three ; lengths from a big field, the stable retaining her at ,000, only to let her go a year later i for ,800. ! G 02fD OLETTES RACING RECORD, i Gondolette ran in twenty-three races in " three seasons. She won three, was placed second once and third twice. Her most i famous daughter is, of course, Serenissima. , Tranquil is her third foal. First came Vene-tia, a winner of three races. Then followed J that game, sterling filly, Selene, which was l probably the best three-year-old of her sex I last season. She won the Liverpool Cup, . carrying 114 pounds, and then triumphed in t the Hampton Court Great Three-Year-Old - Stakes, in which she defeated at weight-for-age Simon Pure, Diligence, Lady Juror and Captain Fracasse. In all Selene, who is a daughter of Chaucer, won fifteen races from twenty-two .starts and over 1,930 in slakes. Tranquil is the third foal of Serenissima, who was barren in 1921. Her yearling is a - bay colt named Schiavoni, full brother to i Tranquil. Serenissima was again barren in - 1923 and there is unfortunately some doubt I as to whether she is in foal to Buchan this t season. 5 It is worth mentioning that Gondolettes - other daughters at the stud are producing good winners. They are Ferry, Lolette, - Dolly Strong and Dolabella, the last named - having produced Cinderella, Princess Charm-l ing and Treize, which a week ago, the first 1 time out, won in brilliant fashion at Man-is Chester. It would certainly appear to be a , most virile line. Gondolette is a daughter of the Doncaster f mare Dongola, which produced five winners of small account. The next dam is Douranee. - .This daughter of Rosicrucian was a smart i. filly, winning eleven stakes and about 5,000. Her son Ormunz won 5,000 and her e daughter Quetta, became the dam of Grey r Leg. He won twelve races and 2,220. !. His victories included the City and Sub- - vrban, Portland Plate Doncaster, Stock-bridge Cup and the Two-Year-Old Free - Handicap with top weight Grey Leg became quite a success as a consistent sire of win-x a r:ers. Douranee was a half sister to Oriole, ;. which bred Ogden, sire of The Finn and Sir !, Martin, which got the brilliant filly Happy 2 2 Thoughts. !. Fenella, the next dam, was by Cambuscan. I. She bred four winners and was a half sister e to the high-class French horse Flageolet, I. which, after running second in the French s Derby and the Grand Prix, came to England to win the Goodwood Cup, Jockey Club Cup - and other races. The next season he was - second in the Ascot Gold Cup. i. It is apparent that the lineage of Gondo-e lette should have warranted a higher price - than 75. Loved One, however, was not v then fashionable. After all, it is in the last r twelve years that the familys greatest rep- lesentatives have been revealed.
