"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



but Mr. Lorlllard had anticipated him. Mortemer, 

 with Agenoria, and her brother, the weanling Pizarro, 

 reached New York November 25, 1880, 

 r j(M on the steamer Italy, after a voyage of fif- 



teen days, and began his stud life in Amer- 

 ica in 1 88 1 with forty-six mares of which forty 

 produced foals in 1882, which for a stallion sixteen 

 years of age was considered a great record. 



Mortemer was probably the best race-horse that was 

 ever imported to America. For five seasons he raced 

 in France, Germany and England under heavy weights, 

 winning twenty-three races and rounding out his career 

 by winning the Ascot Gold Cup, which in England is 

 regarded as the great after-test of Derby winners. In 

 1 87 1 Admiral Rous pronounced him "by 7 lbs. the 

 best race-horse in Europe," and he retired to the stud 

 sound. Mortemer was a chestnut, foaled in 1865, ^Y 

 Compiegne from Comtesse by The Baron or Nuncio; 

 grandam Eusebia by Emilius. His sire was by Fitz 

 Gladiator, son of Gladiator, he by Partisan, whose 

 male line had not been very successful in 

 , Cf J recent years. But when Mortemer entered 



the stud his success was immediate. He 

 sired Chamant, winner of the Middle Park Plate and 

 Two Thousand Guineas; Verneuil, winner of the Gold 

 Vase, Ascot Gold Cup and Alexandra Plate, 3 miles, 

 all in one week; also St. Christophe, Augusta and 

 Clementina, all famous on the course. 



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