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BREEDING OF DERBY WINNER Epsom Downs Victor, Mahmoud, Has Lexington Strain in Pedigree Americus Connecting Link. LEXINGTON, Ky;, May 30. The fourth dam of Mahmoud, winner of the Derby today in England, was Americus Girl, by Americus from Palotta, by Gallinule. Americus was bred by E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin at Rancho Santa Anita, near Los Angeles, Calif., and was trained by Henry McDaniel, but he was not known in this country as Americus. He was the marvelously speedy Rey Del Caredes, foaled in 1892, by Emperor of Norfolk, from Clara D., by Glenelg, next dam, The Nun, by Lexington Novice by Glencoe. The Nun was a sister to Norfolk, sire of Emperor of Norfolk, so it was that Rey Del Caredes was too closely inbred to Lexington for success in the stud in the United States at that time, because of the strong Lexington influence in the mares of that day. What he needed was complete out-crossing. That he got when he went to the stud at Richard Crokers place in Ireland, where he lost his identity as Rey Del Caredes and became Americus. He is one of the few horses carrying Lexington blood to have been admitted to Englands general stud book, the same having been prior to the adoption of the rule introduced to the Jockey Club by Lord Jersey and since known and despised by American breeders as "The Jersey Act," and likewise often referred to as the "bar sinister." In his address at the Thoroughbred Club of Americas dinner in Lexington last November, William Woodward, honor guest on that occasion, expressed the hope that Englands turf governors at no distant date would rescind the rule. The success achieved by the Aga Khan with horses tracing through his famous Grey Mumtaz Mahal, daughter of The Tetrarch, to Americus Girl, served to further disclose the virtue of the blood so generally barred from England.
