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VALUE OF ULTIMUS BLOOD » Daughters of In -Bred Scion of Domino Family Successful in Stud. « Three of These Broodmares Among Offerings of Sale of Late G. A. Cochrans Shandon Stud. « The first requisite of a race horse is speed. Failing to possess it no horse ever attained greatness. And Ultimus, an in-bred scion of the Domino line, stands at the top as founder of a family possessing extreme speed through the performances of his sons and daughters, his grandsons and granddaughters in the two decades past. Foaled in 1906, dying in 1921, the stud career of Ultimus was comparatively short. Yet he gave the turf such stakes winners as Luke McLuke, Infinite, Harry Kelly, Last Coin, High Time, Ultima Thule, Royal Ensign, Last Straw and many others. But it is of the success of his daughters in the stud to which this article is devoted. The last volume of the stud book shows that he had thirty-six daughters in the stud. Others have been added, the exact number not being available, but it is by no means large. Fifteen of his daughters have produced twenty-three stakes winners, a remarkable showing. The stakes winners are Anchors Aweigh, Finite, Flying Heels, On Tap, Quatrain, Sarmaticus, Tattling, Fluvanna, Ennui, Bonnie Maginn, Calm, Dread-naught, Xylophone, Crack Brigade, Sovietta, Lady Baltimore, Lord Baltimore II.. Zeppelin, Powhatan, Adios, Royalite, Bonnie Omar and Toki. And in addition Ultimus mares produced many good winners which just failed to land in the stakes winning list. In the dispersal sale of the late Gifford 3 A. Cochrans Shandon Stud, to be held at Lexington on May 15, there are no less than three daughters of Ultimus and two of the three have produced stakes winners. Standing out as one of the most valuable mares in the country is Heeltaps, a grand stakes winner of seventeen races and the dam of the Pimlico Futurity winner Flying Heels, whose winnings total over 00,000. The dam of Heeltaps was a winning daughter of Waterboy, from the stakes winner Planutess, granddam of the Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen and of Betty Derr, the champion western filly of 1930. The next dam was that great mare Wanda. A lovely individual, Heeltaps is almost priceless. Another of the trio is Marimba, whose dam was Mattie C, a winning daughter of the Persimmon horse imported Out of Reach. Marimba won for three seasons and is the dam of Xylophone, winner of the Blemton Stakes, Ardsley Handicap and other races. She also produced the winner Banjo. The last of the lot is Broadcast, the dam of three winners in McNamee, Tune In and Deploy. Broadcasts dam was the high class race mare and stakes winner Round the World, winner of twenty-seven races and dam of Golden Prince, winner of the Cof-froth Handicap and 46,325. The next dam was Nelly Bly, a first class stakes winner and producer. Daughters of Ultimus are hard to obtain and are closely held. Few, if any, may be bought, being among the matrons of the leading studs, so there should be a big demand for these mares in which the late Gifford Cochran took so much pride. Mares by Ultimus being unobtainable, one must turn to daughters of his leading sons. Of those sons High Time assumes a position far in the lead. Still a young horse, whose daughters have not age enough to warrant counting him among the leading brood mare sires, the few that have had an opportunity include On Time, dam of the stakes winner Dedicate, and Belle Fair, dam of High Foot, winner of the 1930 Derby Trial.
