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Big Gap Left in Harness Ranks as Volomite Passes Peter Volo Scion Most Famous Progenitor in Modern-Day Sport The Standard-bred world lost one of its greatest sires of modern times in January of this year when Volomite passed away at the advanced age of 28. He died in Kentucky, where he was jointly owned by Walnut Hall Farm and Walnut Hall Stud, at Lexington. Volomite, a little brown stallion standing only 15.2, was a famous racer in his day, but his enduring fame rests on his remarkable record as a progenitor. He got more than two dozen 2 : 00 performers to set an all-time record. And so vitally potent was this grand old sultan of the* stud that he continued to occupy a leading position in the breeding statistics right Up to the time of his death, his get earning a record 87,451 last year to top all rivals in the race for leading money-winning honors of the nation. Volomites greatest sons and daughters included Sampson -Hanover, 1:56% l:59%hmt; Victory Song 3, 1:59%, 4, 1:57%; Volo Song, "4, 1:57 3-4; Chief .Counsel p, 3, 1:57 3-4; Kings Counsel 1:58; Algiers 1:58%; Love Song 1:59; Millbrook 1:59 1-4; Thoriograph 4, 1:50 1-4; •Black-stone p, 1:59 1-2; His Excellency 3, 1:59 3-4; Gay Song 1:59 3-4; Poplay Byrd 1:59%: Mighty Sun 1:59; Full Bloom 1:58%; Ale-mite 1:58%; White Mountain Boy 1:58% and sundry others; who shaded 2 : 00. Literally dozens of, his sons, and. daughters circled the track in 2 :00 and a minute and a fraction over. In fact, he had nearly 200 in 2:05, a record without parallel. Volomites dam was Cita Frisco, the dam of several brilliant performers and gran-dam of still others. Cita Frisco was a daughter of the great racer and sire San Francisco, and from the Mendocino mare Men-docita. These names sound like California, dont they? Well, they are.- All three were bred in California. Though Volomite is gone, he leaves behind him a number of sons who were brilliant on the racetrack, and who are already making names for their line in the breeding paddock. Volomite won the Kentucky Futurity, the Horsemens Futurity, the Matron Stakes and the Charter Oak, and was second in the Hambletonian and Champion Stallion Stakes.- He had a record of 2:06 at 2 and of 2:031-4 at 3.
