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the incomparable Domino and won the Realization Stakes at three years old. Mr. 

 Pickwick got a great many good winners, among them Ida Pickwick, who raced till 

 eight years old and won over sixty races. He was bred in strictly sire-producing lines, 

 his third dam being Hybla, dam of the great Kettledrum, who won the Derby of 1861 ; 

 and his fifth dam produced Lanercost, the greatest campaign horse between 1839 and 

 1850 and over the average as a sire. Mr. Pickwick's daughters, however, do not seem 

 to be so successful as matrons as are the daughters of St. Blaise, by the same sire. This 

 is somewhat singular, because Mr. Pickwick was much the better-bred horse, being from 

 the No. 3 family while St. Blaise was from No. 22. At the same time, a close review 

 of St. Blaise's pedigree will show the reader that he contained more great broodmare 

 sires than did Mr. Pickwick; and that may account for the superiority of St. Blaise's 

 daughters as matrons. Dobbins, above mentioned, was sent to England to race, but 

 broke down in training and never faced the starter. He was standing in Ireland when 

 I was there in 1901. 



It is a singular thing that with six sons of the great St. Simon in America, not 

 one of them has ever been as good as tenth on the list of winning sires. Masetto, out of 

 Lady Abbess (sister of Exeter, who beat the great Rayon d'Or in the Hardwicke Stakes 

 at Ascot) by Cathedral, has gotten two good horses in Waring and Tommy Atkins, the 

 latter of which was sent over to England and died shortly after landing; and Waring, a 

 winner of about $14,000 in two weeks, at San Francisco in 1900, is dead also. Basset- 

 law, owned at the Rancho del Paso, gets a great many horses in the "useful" class but, 

 as yet, has turned out nothing great. Scorpion got a fairly good colt in John Yerkes 

 who won the Drexel Stakes at Chicago, but none of the rest of his get have achieved 

 much. Two other sons of St. Simon St Evox and Hawkswick are more recent im- 

 portations, but their get are as yet too young to give any account of themselves. The 

 full pedigree of Hawkswick (brother of Sir Blundell Maple's Childwick who defeated 

 the great Orme) will be found elsewhere in this book. He belongs to that upright 

 gentleman and enterprising breeder, Hon. Henry T. Oxnard, of Los Angeles ; and that 

 gentleman will see to it that he has access to the very best mares in the country, one 

 of which is the flying filly Lux Casta, by Donovan, who ran second to Yankee in the 

 Futurity of 1901. 



IMPORTED ESHER, by Claremont (son of Blair Athol and Coimbra) out of Una by 

 Dusk (or Ellington) had been a great success in Kentucky up to the time of his death, 

 in December, 1901. He was a fine big upstanding horse with all the Blair Athol power 

 and a degree of quality which he plainly inherited from the beautiful Wild Dayrell. He 

 got Alcedo, a winner of the Suburban of 1901 ; Judith Campbell and her brother, the 

 game and speedy Moharib ; Esherine, winner of the California Oaks at San Fran- 

 cisco ; Benson Caldwell, a winner for five seasons ; and a dozen other good ones. Esher 

 has several sons already in the stud but they are as yet too young to form any ade- 

 quate idea of their breeding capacity. His daughters should breed well for, while he 

 was full of good sire blood, he also has some great broodmare blood in Venison, Wild 

 Dayrell and Lanercost; and their daughters had over forty years ago well earned the 

 fame enjoyed by them as matrons. Esher died the property of that splendid specimen of 

 a youns: country gentleman, J. N. Camden Jr., of Kentucky. 



IMPORTED ORDER affords to the student of breeding a very curious problem to con- 

 temnlate. He never started in a race and, amongst other mares that he served while 

 the property of Mr. Hal Headley, of Lexington, was Victorine by Onondaga ; and she, 

 like Order, was a maiden. From this union came that good horse Ornament, winner 

 of three Derbys at three years old and the best handicap horse in America at four. Orna- 

 ment is already a fairly tried sire and gets many good horses. Order also got High 

 Order, a very successful turf horse ; and Box, a good winner at the Atlantic seaboard 

 tracks against the very best of company. Box is now in the stud of Mr. W. Showalter, 

 of Georgetown, Scott county, Kentucky, and gives promise of becoming a good sire. 



