io8 The American Thoroughbred 



The blood of little Order, whose dam was also the dam of the great Orme, has evi- 

 dently "come to stay." 



STALWART AND TOPGALLANT were full brothers, imported about the same time, 

 both being by Sterling out of Sea Mark by Adventurer, the next dam being Sea Gull, 

 the dam of Beaudesert. Stalwart achieved nothing worth talking about, but Top- 

 gallant at once leaped into fame as the sire of Lookout, Typhoon and Algol, the latter 

 being as good as any in his three-year-old form and about the best of the next year 

 when he won the rich Wheeler Handicap at Chicago. Then came Sidney Lucas, the 

 best muddy-track horse that had been seen for many a day. He won the Amer- 

 ican Derby at Chicago, after being the fifth horse to enter the stretch, beating, among 

 others, the much vaunted Lieutenant Gibson, who had won the Kentucky Derby a few 

 weeks before. Topgallant's benefits to the American stud were many and far reach- 

 ing for several of his sons are making reputations as sires ; and one of his daughters, 

 Manola Mason, is already the dam of two such flyers as McChesney and First Mason, 

 both stake horses of rare individual merit. 



Trustee, by Catton out of Emma by Whisker, ran third in the Derby of 1832, won 

 by St. Giles (also imported), the second horse being Perion by Whisker. Trustee 

 afterward beat Margrave, the St. Leger, winner of that year, in a race in which St. 

 Giles ran outside the money. Trustee was full brother to Mundig, who won the 

 Derby of 1835 and a half-brother to Cotherstone, who won the Two Thousand and 

 Derby in 1843. Mowerina, sister to Cotherstone, was the dam of West Australian, 

 the first to win "the triple crown," and fourth dam of Donovan, who won both the 

 Derby and St. Leger of 1889. So it will be seen that this is a great performing fam- 

 ily but not much for sires, Trustee being quite as good a one as ever came from that 

 of Gibside Fairy. He was imported by Commodore R. F. Stockton, U. S. A., and stood 

 in New Jersey. He was rather small but full of quality, aside from a rather plain 

 head ; and was essentially different from Mundig, who was coarse like his sire, Cat- 

 ton. Trustee can be safely set down as a first-class sire, having gotten Fashion, 

 the best performing mare of her day; Levity, the greatest mare in American his- 

 tory, considered as an ancestress ; Revenue, the best stallion of his day, to a cer- 

 tainty ; and Reube, the best gelding of his day, for he was third and close up to 

 Lecompte and Lexington in the fastest heat of four miles ever run up to that time. 



IMPORTED SOVEREIGN should have bred better than he did. He was by the then 

 premier stallion of Europe (Emilius) out of the best mare for cup distances (Fleur de 

 Lis) that had yet appeared, with the solitary exception of the nonpariel Beeswing. 

 He got some good horses, but nothing like what should have been expected from his 

 superb breeding. From Reel he got Ann Dunn and Prioress, the latter of which 

 was taken to England where she won the Cesarewitch of 1857 (after a dead heat with 

 El Hakim and Queen Bess) and the Great Yorkshire Handicap of 1858. Sovereign 

 also got Charleston, who was also taken to England to run for the Ascot and Good- 

 wood cups, but he became a "roarer" soon after landing. Sovereign's male line 

 became extinct with the death of John Morgan, but some of his daughters have 

 bred very well, more particularly Dixie, who laid the foundation of an ample for- 

 tune for my good old friend, Major B. G. Thomas, of Lexington, Kentucky. 



IMPORTED YORKSHIRE AND NICHOLAS were full brothers brought to this country 

 by R. D. Shepherd. They were by St. Nicholas, who was by Emilius out of Sea 

 Mew (full sister to Shoveler, who won the Oaks of 1819, and to Sailor, who won 

 the Derby in 1820) by Scud, thus being inbred to Beningbrough, Leviathan being in- 

 bred in almost a similar manner. The dam of these colts was Miss Rose by Tramp, 

 from a mare by Sancho (St. Leger, winner in 1804) from the Coriander mare that 

 produced Theodore (St. Leger, 1822) and the mighty Blacklock, male-line ancestor 

 of the incomparable St. Simon. I may dismiss Nicholas by saying that his only 

 progeny of any distinction was the black horse Tar River, who, though a trifle de- 



