'The American 'Thoroughbred zoj 



OUR IMPORTED SIRES 



AMONG the great stallions imported to America, Leamington, by Faugh-a-Ballagh 

 (St. Leger and Cesarewitch winner of 1844) is clearly entitled to supremacy. No other 

 stallion ever got four such winners, in a single season, as Longfellow, Enquirer, Lyt- 

 tleton and Hamburg; and as the sire of Iroquois, the only American horse ever to win 

 an Epsom Derby and Doncaster St. Leger, he defies approach by the best of them. 

 He did not equal Lexington as a brood-mare sire for the reason that his daughters in- 

 herited his irascible temper and were not good milkers, while the Lexington mares 

 were like Jersey cows. For all that his daughters dropped such great performers as 

 Sir Dixon, who was also premier sire of America in 1901 ; Potomac, one of the only 

 two horses to win the Futurity at two years old and the Realization at three; and 

 Belvidere, a fair race horse and an excellent sire; and, of less note, such excellent per- 

 formers as Manchaca and Chesapeake. 



Leamington made four seasons in England prior to his importation by Mr. Cam- 

 eron but, while all his get were good performers, none of them could be called great. 

 Everybody in America knows of his great achievements in his new home and he is the 

 only stallion since 1870 to get two premier sires, Longfellow in 1891 and Iroquois in 1893. 

 I never saw Leamington but once and could not get anywhere near him on account of his 

 temper, but he impressed me as having the finest hind leg and especially the best gaskin, 

 I had ever seen under a horse. One of his sons, the brilliant Sensation, was second 

 on the list of winning sires in England in 1899, through the victories of Democrat, 

 Dominie and others in Mr. Pierre Lorillard's stable, trained by that splendid Con- 

 federate veteran, Mr. John Huggins, of the Lone Star State. Of eleven stallions whose 

 get won upwards of $50,000 in 1893, three were sons of Leamington Longfellow, Iro- 

 quois and Onondaga, the latter a full brother to Sensation. It must also be remembered 

 that another son of Leamington the unsexed Parole was the only horse ever to win 

 the City and Suburban, Great Metropolitan and Newmarket Handicaps in one season ; 

 and that, in the latter race, he defeated the great Isonomy, the best cup horse of the 

 last fifty years. Leamington was a fitting exponent of the No. 14 family, from which 

 came the immortal Touchstone and that Australian wonder, Grand Flaneur who got 

 Merman, one of the only three horses to walk over for the Goodwood cup in the long 

 space of seventy-five years. Leamington was a brown horse of almost perfect con- 

 formation. He won the Chester cup and Goodwood Stakes at four and the Chester 

 cup again at six years ; and, in the Queen's Vase of the latter year, he was beaten a 

 neck by the three-year-old Schism, carrying 97 pounds while he carried 121 pounds. 

 It was a fitting end to the turf career of a horse whose real merit for gameness, coupled 

 with speed, had always been underestimated by the handicappers. 



IT is very doubtful if America ever imported a much better stallion than Glenelg. 

 He bred such wonderfully good legs and feet, and coupled with undeniable gameness 

 and a fair rate of speed, that he must rank next to Leamington and Australian among 

 the more modern importations ; and for the first three seasons of his get upon the turf 

 you could hardly find a buyer for a Glenelg colt and, as for his fillies, you coulld 

 scarcely get a breeder to try one of them unless he was one of that numerous class 

 that "Wants something for nothing." Mr. E. J. Baldwin of Santa Anita, through 

 Mr. Lewis R. Martin (now about fifteen years dead) was fortunate enough to get six 



