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There will be a change of the figures at the close of the season, but none, in my 

 belief, in the relative positions of the horses named, for Meddler is just as far ahead 

 of Ben Brush as Little Benny is ahead of Hamburg. Ben Strome has a bare living 

 chance to overhaul Hamburg, but it is not probable, as his best representative, High- 

 ball, is dead. 



It is therefore plain that we have not only the male-line of Glencoe, extinct every- 

 where else in the wide earth, but that we have among Eclipse lines what England has 

 not had for over twenty years a good line of Don John through lago and Bonnie 

 Scotland, the latter horse being the sire of the American filly Aranza that won several 

 big races in England. In addition to that we have that great Matchem line that 

 comes down to us through the sons of Spendthrift and Wildidle, but, of course, as 

 those horses did not trace to any mare included in the Bruce Lowe system, neither 

 Hastings, Kingston nor Lamplighter would be registered in the British Stud Book. 

 That was why Mr. Keene brought Spendthrift back from England and the American 

 public have good cause to thank him for it. 



If you ask why there is no successful St. Simon horse in all America, my only 

 answer to that is we have yet to import one that is bred from a sire-producing line 

 of mares. True St. Andrew got Articulate, one of the greatest race horses ever foaled 

 in California, but just stop long enough to consider how that colt's dam was bred? By 

 Martini Henry, a son of Musket and his dam the dam of Goldsbrough, who was all of 

 ten pounds better than Sir Modred ; the next dam Uralla, sister to that great race horse 

 Carlyon, by Chester; and the next dam Moonstone by Blair Athol from Amethyst by 

 Touchstone, from Camphine by The Provost, a half-brother to Alice Hawthorne. And 

 where are the rest of your St. Andrews? Masetto got two good horses in Tommy 

 Atkins and Waring but Massetto has made thirteen seasons in the stud and certainly 

 ought to have more good horses than those. Simple Simon, who raced under the 

 name of Hunciecroft, was about fit to stand for a barrel of corn on the cob ; and as 

 for Simon Magus, who was out of the best mare in the bunch, he did well to get 

 burnt up. 



The intelligent reader will therefore see that the Stockwell line is a long- way the 

 best of an-y line we now have in these United States of ours. Take the winnings of all 

 the St. Simon horses this year, through their progeny ; and the sum total would not 

 equal the winnings accredited to one Stockwell horse alone Meddler. St. Simon is 

 a great horse, to be sure, but the* mere fact that he headed the list nine times to 

 Stockwell's seven proves nothing to me because in England they judge as we do, by 

 the amount of money won and not the number of races. Now, let us examine this 

 thing carefully and endeavor to judge the case without prejudice. St. Simon's best 

 season was in 1900 when he had 60,844 to his credit, with winners of the Derby, Oaks, 

 St. Leger, Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas, all five of the classic events of 

 that year. Stockwell's best season was in 1866, when Lord Lyon won the Derby, 

 Two Thousand and St. Leger, and Tormentor, by King Tom, won the Oaks in that 

 year, while Repulse by Stockwell won the One Thousand. In th t year Stockwell's 

 winnings were 61,391 and Tormentor's Oaks must have been worth at least 3000 to 

 King Tom. As racing prizes, outside of the classics, which remain about the same, 

 are worth from three to four times what they were in Stockwell's day, I fail to see 

 where St. Simon has shown anything greater than cud Stockwell ; and three out of 

 every five of St. Simon's winners have a cross of Stockwell in them. Now then 

 comes the query on the Bruce Lowe principle. Is not the success of these St. Simon 

 performers from mares having a cross of Stockwell, owing largely to the fact that 

 both Galopin, sire of St. Simon, and Stockwell also, came from the No. 3 family, orig- 

 inating in the Byerly Turk mare which produced the two True Blues? Outside of 

 mares having a cross of Stockwell, where would St. Simon be under your money 

 test? What would he have amounted to under that test, without the aid of Per- 



