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no other parallel to it. Imported in 1858 by Capt. Cornish and sold to Reber and 

 Kutz, in a district in Ohio, where there were but few thoroughbred mares and none 

 that had produced winners previous to his advent, he was again banished still further 

 away into Illinois and Iowa, where he appeared likely to die in undeserved obscurity. 

 But the cloud over him had, after all, a silver lining. One day old Vandal died at 

 Belle Meade and it became necessary to select a successor to the horse that had saved 

 the male line of Glencoe from extinction. General Jackson read over the race in which 

 Dangerous, by Bonnie Scotland, had run so well to Idlewild and Jerome Edger in the 

 fastest time then recorded with Northern weight. He also recalled the fact that in 

 the only heat lost by the then peerless Asteroid, he was beaten by a son of Bonnie Scot- 

 land ; and this, coupled with the fast three-mile race won by Frogtown in 5 '.2g l />, de- 

 termined him in his idea of buying old Bonnie Scotland and. transplanting him at Belle 

 Meade. Of the triumphs that followed his purchase by General Jackson, it is hardly 

 necessary for me to speak. In the third season after his removal to Tennessee, Bonnie 

 Scotland headed the list with $135,700 won by his get, being by $15,340 the largest 

 amount credited to any sire in America, whether native or imported. It was an un- 

 usually rainy year all over America, and the saying, "Trust a Bonnie Scotland to run 

 in the mud," attained the proportions of an established maxim. Two years later he 

 again reached the premiership of America with $103,475, and his son, Luke Blackburn, 

 was the most consistent three-year-old in American history, having won 22 races out of 

 23 starts at that age ; and George Kinney was an exemplar of the Miss Obstinate family 

 which reaped such green laurels in England through the unsexed Parole. And where 

 was there any horse of that period that got such fillies as the daughters of Bonnie Scot- 

 land. Glidelia won at Saratoga a mile and three-quarters and established new record 

 for that distance, a record destined to be unbroken for nearly twenty years. Bonnie 

 Scotland, as a sire of sires, was only fairly good, Bramble, out of Ivy Leaf, being by 

 long odds his best. Bramble never headed the list of sires but there was hardly a year 

 between 1885 and 1895 that he did not have from $40,000 to $60,000 to his credit ; and 

 there are but few sires that average as well. Even as late as 1901, shortly before old 

 Bramble went the way of all horse flesh, his son, Prince of Melbourne, won the Real- 

 ization Stakes at Coney Island and the Brighton Cup a few days later, the two races 

 aggregating the handsome sum of $37,000. 



THE ILL USED, by Breadalbane out of Ellermire (dam of Elland and Epigram) by 

 Chanticleer, was one of the best bred horses ever imported to America. He will be 

 found in the Stud Book, Volume I, as the "Breadalbane colt." He was knocked about 

 and bruised badly in his first three races, on account of which Mr. Belmont gave him his 

 peculiar name. After that he had no bad luck and won a number' of good races, his 

 best being in the Kenner Stakes at Saratoga, then run at two miles. He could stay 

 all day, but strange to say, nearly all of his get were notable as sprinters, the best 

 being Fides, who won the Toboggan Handicap. This horse was just the reverse of 

 the English horse, Sterling, who was a very short horse himself all out at a mile and 

 a quarter but got a number of good stayers, Isonomy and Gold among the number. 

 But the daughters of the 111 Used produced many good stayers, Henry of Navarre and 

 Kilmarnock being the most notable examples. Ill Used was a brother-in-blood to the 

 Australian sire, Epigram, who got Le Grand, the horse that defeated the great Martini 

 Henry in the Victoria St. Leger, Epigram being by Blair Athol. Elland by Rataplan out 

 of The 111 Used's dam, won the Queen's Gold Vase at Ascot, the Liverpool Autumn 

 Cup and several other big races. The 111 Used is an important factor in some of the 

 very best American pedigrees. He was a small horse but looked every inch the warrior. 



MR. PICKWICK, by Hermit, out of Tomato by King Tom, from the Oaks winner, 

 Mincemeat, was another very valuable importation, being brought over by Charles Reed, 

 of Gallatin, Tenn. He died in 1889, a comparatively young horse, being the sire of 

 many good winners, the best being Dobbins, who ran a dead heat at Morris Park with 



