The American Thoroughbred 



Bertha (Oaks 1863) by Kingston, being the only stallion in the world having the first 

 three generations, on his dam's side, as winners of the Oaks consecutively. Meddler's 

 rise, from tenth place in 1901 to first in 1904, is the result of Mr. Whitney's liberal 

 purchases of great mares between 1897 and 1900 ; and to the intelligent manner in 

 which the pick of these mares were mated with him. Stalwart, by Meddler out of 

 Melba, by imp. Mortemer, won the most money of all the three-year-old colts in 1904, 

 being second only to the peerless Beldame, of his own age ; and Colonial Girl a 

 daughter of Meddler, won the St. Louis Fair Handicap, which she was lucky to 

 catch on a muddy track, as Hermis, who ran second to her, would surely have beaten 

 her on a good day and a good track. If I live ten years longer, I hope to see an 

 inbred Stockwell horse, produced by mating a son of Meddler with a daughter of 

 imported Esher. This will give a double of the blood of Blair Athol by long odds 

 the best son of Stockwell. Here will be the tabulation : 



< ) 



O 1 



Melba 



Esher 



! St. Gatien 



Meddler { 



Mortemer 



I Trill 



Claremont 



Una 

 I Dusk 



( The Rover 



St. Editha 



* Busybody { 



( Petrarch 

 I 



I Spinaway 

 ( Compeigne 





Cadence 

 ( Blair Athol 

 ( Coimbra 



f Wild Dayrell 

 \ 



\ Blair Athol 

 \ Edith 



Kingley Vale 

 Miss Agnes 



Lord Clifden 

 Laura 



Macaroni 

 Queen Bertha 



Fitz Gladiator 

 Maid of Hart 

 Nuncio 

 Eusebia 



Lexington 

 Coral 



\ Macaroni 

 j Castagnette 

 \ Stockwell 

 \ Blink Bony 

 | Kingston 

 \ Calcavella 

 \ Ion 

 \ Ellen 

 ' Middleton 



I Circassian Maid \ Lanercost 

 .dam's ped-igree not yet given. 



This would be, in my belief, the best possible way of preserving the blood of Blair 

 Athol in America. A stallion so bred would be very valuable for the reason that there 

 would be two crosses each of Blair Athol, Marcaroni, Orlando and Newminster ; and 



