"The Origin of the 'Thoroughbred iq 



there have been other successful turf families, there is no sire family anywhere near 

 this No. 3 in the Bruce Lowe system, to which trace the following great sires of history: 



Stockwell t St. Patrick t Van Tromp tG i M L-ORTED TO CALIFOR- 



Rataplan QD Post Restante Rayon d'Or tj NIA. 



King Tom Kettledrum* Eothen . Conveth 



Flying Dutchman *t Flatcatcher Slight of Hand True Briton 



LanercostA Elthiron CS Toxophilite GM Abercorn (Aust.) 



Tramp D Hobbie Noble W Sir Peter * Vanderdecken (Aust) 



Isinglass *t Pyrrhus I* Eclipse Maribyrnong (Aust.) 



MnsketAlex Gen. Peel t Nuneham Ferryman (Aust.) 



Berserken Velocipede Quicklime CS Kingof Anglers (Aust) 



Mast. Kildare CS Galopin * Talk'of theliill(Aust) 



Of the 31 stallions named above, u got winners of the Derby; 10 got winners 

 of the St. Leger, and got 10 winners of the Oaks, the hardest race on earth for a 

 three-year-old filly ; 5 got winners of the 2000 guineas, and 9 got winners of the .cooo 

 guineas. The two greatest sires from the dam of the two True Blues are Sir Peter, 

 foaled in 1784, and Derby winner in 1787; and Stockwell, foaled in 1849, and winner 

 of the Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger of 1852. The reader is referred to "The 

 Great Table," to be found in the latter part of this book, for further particulars as 

 to what these great sires achieved in the stud. There is no mark placed after Eothen, 

 imported into America by the late David D. Withers, but the interesting fact remains 

 that he is, up to date, the only stallion, whether native or imported, to get two winners 

 of the Realization Stakes at Coney Island, which is in nine years out of ten, the severest 

 three-year-old race in all America. As for Abercorn, he was certainly the best race 

 horse ever foaled in Australia and the handsomest big horse I ever saw. 



Queen Anne succeeded to the throne of England in 1702 and to her, more than 

 any other sovereign of that kingdom, the racing world is indebted for the presence 

 of the thoroughbred horse of today. Shortly after her accession to the throne, a Mr. 

 William Darley, living near New York, received a present of an Arabian stallion from 

 his brother living abroad, the horse being a bay with a star and snip and four white 

 feet. (It was owing to his resemblance to a portrait of this famous horse that Dr. 

 Elisha Warfield, of Lexington, Ky., gave the name of "Darley" to his bay colt, foaled 

 in 1850, by Boston out of Alice Carneal by imp. Sarpedon but, after the colt had won 

 all his stakes, he yielded to the persuasion of his friends and re-christened him "Lex- 

 ington." And as such he goes down to history, the only stallion in the world to head 

 the list of Winning Sires for eleven years ; and as the greatest sire of broodmares 

 the world has ever known, being just as far ahead of Pantaloon, St. Albans, Mel- 

 bourne, Orlando, Stockwell, King Tom and Hermit, as one horse can be ahead of 

 another. It is to be generally regretted that none of his sons were able to perpetuate 

 his fame ; and I confidently expect, from all present indications, that his male line, 

 like that of Catton and Emilius, in the earlier part of the last century, will be wholly 

 extinct by 1950. 



The Darley Arabian is, of course, the male line ancestor of Eclipse, whose descend- 

 ants have won two Derbys and almost three St. Legers to any other family's one. 

 No Herod line colt has won the Derby since 1879; nor has any of this line won a St. 

 Leger since Ossian carried it off in 1883. Sir Visto, by Barcaldine, was the las>t 

 Matchem line horse to win either a Derby or a St. Leger, he absorbing both those 

 races in 1895, but, judging from his subsequent performances, he was a very ordinary 



* Won the Derby; t won the St. Ledger; A won the Ascot Cup; D won the Doncaster; G won 

 the Goodwood; Q won the Queen's Vase at Ascot; CS won the City and Suburban; J won the 

 Jockey Club Cup; N won the New Stakes, Ascot; GM won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes; Alex 

 won the Alexandra Plate, 3 miles. 



