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TWO FLOURISHING AMERICAN FAMILIES Houses of Himyar and Bramble the Dominant In ¬ fluences in Our Breeding of Today Two horses destined to great fame in racing and afterward in the stud Himyar and Bramble were foaled in 1875 Himyar was a beautiful bay horse of great speed and a male line descendant of Touchstone through Orlando Eclipse and Alarm and was bred by Ihe late Major B G Thomas at his Dixiana Stud near Lexington Ky He was a stake winner at two three four and five years old de ¬ feating the best of his time He should have won tin Kentucky Derby of 1878 but ran second to Day Star localise of a faulty ride As a sire lie was even more distinguished than as a racer Hewas an extremely vigorous horse and lived to be thirty years old His sons and daughters were greatly prized in racing and his son Domino was the greatest money winner of American turf history Dominos son Commando was a wonder bnt short lived He died when only seven years old but had already liegotten Celt Transvaal Colin Peter Quince Superman Ultimus and others virile and dominant in our breeding and racing of today As an Ameri ¬ can family that coming down from Himyar Domino nml Commando is only rivaled by the Bonnie Scot land line of Bramble and Ben Brush Another son of Domino which is still highly valuable as a suc ¬ cessful sire is Disguise The ancestry of Himyar was as follows fOrlando I Touchstone Eclipse TouchstoneEclipse J Vulture = Gaze BayMiddleton Flycatcher x i rStockwell The Baron HMalI 1 IPocahontas 3 Countess of C Albeinarie Lniiercost Lniiercosta t J I Sis to Hornsey a = Torinfr f Boston JTimoleun I Unf H Alice Sis t Tuckahoe TuckahoeSg TuckahoeSg Sg c I Carneal Sarpedon SarpedonZJ ZJ j Rowena S3 fAmbas 3 Plenipotentiary PlenipotentiaryHegira I PlenipotentiaryI Hegira sailor J Jennie Mills MillsI I Flight 3 Leviathan IchotteHamilton IchotteHamiltonRramjile Rramjile was a remarkable race horse good in any sort of going and a sprinter and a stayer His greatest fame was gained as a Cup winner when a fouryearold in 1879 In that year he won the Baltimore Cup at Pimlico Westchester Cup at Jer ¬ ome Park Monmouth Cup at Long Brunch Saratoga Cup at Saratoga and Brighton Cup at Brighton Bench Each of these races was at two and one iiarter miles and ills feat of winning them all was never equaled That year he started in twenty races and won fifteen of them Bonnie Scotland had many other sons which succeeded in the stud but Brambles line has outlived them all and is now flourishing greatly His son Ben Brush iHsides being a grand race Jiorse himself succeeded remarkably In the stud and is responsible in his turn for such presentday sires as Broomstick Sweep Delhi Von Tromp Theo Cook and more in fact none of his ons has failed to make good in the stud and several of his grandsons have given evidence of their ability to maintain the Influence if their great house notably the shapely and splendid race horse Whisk Broom II In these days when there is such a powerful infusion of foreign blood through the unparalleled importations of the last half dozen years it is well that we have such flourishing native families as those of Himyar and Bramble to furnish valuable crosses and returns of blood Here are Brambles lines of descent 3 f Don John 1 Trmp or Werly = r Iiieo J I Dof C Mrciana = Scandal I Selim SelimX X JDof HrdPcess ioueen fGladiator Partisan PartisanS5 S5 1Q Murv uur S Pauline 5 Daughter of Plenipotentiary Plenipotentiaryw w 3 Myrrha Myrrhaij ij 2 Is fWestAus J Melbourne 3 JMowerinag r ii nan S trallan JMowerina g EnliJa Young Emilins Emilinsjj3 jj3 J Persian PersianPI PI L rLexington Boston NRaJ BostonNRaJ J I Alice Carneal t lower 1 v Yorkshirev IJay Leaf f Yorkshire Maria Black
