p<5 'The American thoroughbred 



NAME. FOALED. LINE SIRE DAM'aHB REMARKS. 



The Deacon 1887 E Zealot Stella by XX i mp . i nto Canada. 



The Judge i8qi E Loyalist (Eng) British Queen 



Thos. A. Becket ..i8Q4M Autocrat Maid of Kent 



Trentola 1890 E Trenton Gondola Bred in Australia 



and won races 

 in California. 



Virtuose 1888 E Fitz Plutus . . Vicontesse Bred in France. 



Watercress i88g E Springfield ...Wharfdale 



Donnadieu t 



Arkle Arklow 



Greenan St. Simon .... 



Gerolstein 



Royal Flush Favo 



* Won the Derby; t won the . Leger; Qw i .yueen's Vase: D won the Doncaster Cup; A won the Ascot Cup; 

 G won the Goodwood Cup; C won the Cesurewitch 



The stallions laid down in Vol. 8 of the American Stud Book a very slovenly 

 compilation, by the way, still worse printed and bound are omitted intentionally, 

 chiefly for the reason that most of them are young horses and have, as yet, not 

 enough performing progeny to render them objects of interest to the breeders of 

 America. If this little work should go to a second edition, a year or two hence (of 

 which I am in nowise sanguine) they will be included in them. From the schedules 

 above given it will be seen that in the period from the close of the Revolution to 1865, 

 the end of the War of Secession, we imported thrice as many of Herod's line as of 

 Eclipse and of Matchem blood. And from the close of the Civil War to the present 

 date_there were 138 stallions of Eclipse's male line as against 172 of Herod's and 42 

 of Matchem's. It looks to me as though we had overdone matters in all three periods, 

 especially in the second one, at the close of which we found ourselves overloaded 

 with Herod blood. The marvelous success of Leamington, Billet, Glenelg and Buckden, 

 all Eclipse horses; and of Australian, the only Matchem horse imported for nearly a 

 half-century, upon the Lexington-Glencoe mares, from 1870 to 1885, shows how badly 

 we were in need of a really good and legitimate outcross. Lexington got nk> sons 

 worth being called sires, but his daughters built up reputations for all five of the 

 above named sires, with Bonnie Scotland and Prince Charlie thrown in. Of the 

 above mentioned stallions, Leamington did not get the most winners but he bred, by 

 long odds, the best class. 



American breeding is a good deal of a lottery, at best, for horses have succeeded 

 here that were failures, or comparatively so, in England and Australia. Leamington 

 made three seasons in England, during which he got 19 winners of 42 races, none 

 of which exceeded $2,000 in value. We all know what he did here for, after being 

 buried alive on Staten Island for three years, he was sent out to Kentucky where 

 he got Enquirer, Lyttelton, Longfellow and Hamburg, all in one season ; and Hamburg, 

 the poorest of the lot, won over $3,500 in three seasons, while Lyttelton was much 

 better ; and as for Enquirer and Longfellow, every illiterate negro rubber knows what 

 they did. Glencoe's case is even more startling as a reverse caused by transplantation. 

 He stood to sixteen mares in 1836, getting 13 foals, only one being a male, which died 

 as a yearling. What his daughters achieved at the stud would fill this entire volume 

 if I undertook to give it in detail. He was brought into Alabama Where most of 

 his get were flashy, the great Peytona excepted. When he got up into Kentucky and 

 had access to the daughters of Medoc, Leviathan and Wagner, the records soon began 

 to tell a very different story. Even in 1860, twenty-nine years after his birth and 

 three years after his death, he was second on the list and that by a narrow margin. 



