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performer, Longstreet) must rank about even with The Bard among the sons of Long- 

 fellow and superior to all the others. He was foaled in 1880 and won the Kentucky 

 Derby at three years old, with Drake Carter and Cardinal McCloskey as the two 

 placed horses in the race. He lost one race at two years old, but was never beaten 

 afterwards. I have heard people say he never won a really fast race, which is true, 

 but he beat two horses that were afterwards record-breakers, notably Drake Carter, 

 whose three-mile race, in 5 -.24, is still unbeaten. The truth is, he carried his horses 

 so fast in the fore part of his races, that he left them nothing with which to finish. 

 Leonatus was never a premier sire, but always a prominent one. He got Libertine, 

 whose mile on a circular track was the record up to the current year, when Hermis 

 lowered it to i :38 with 133 pounds up. He also got Pink Coat, winner of two Derbys. 

 From 1893 to 1899 he was a very conspicuous sire, getting an average of $45,000 worth 

 of good winners every year ; and it was a fitting end for so great a horse that, on the 

 very day of his death, his son Pink Coat won the American Derby at Washington 

 Park, while another son, Tillo, carried off the Suburban Handicap at Coney Island 

 from a select field consisting of Bannockburn, Warrenton and ten other good ones. 

 Leonatus came from the No. 12 family to which trace Lexington and Vandal. 



BRAMBLE, by Bonnie Scotland out of Ivy Leaf by Australian, from Bayflower by 

 Lexington, is one of the native stallions well to be remembered, because he not only 

 got winners but sires as well, his son Ben Brush being already accredited with the 

 largest amount ever placed opposite the name of any American horse of his age. 

 Bramble got Prince of Melbourne, winner of the Brighton Cup and Realization Stakes ; 

 Ben Brush, winner of the Kentucky and Latonia Derbys at three and the Suburban 

 Handicap at four ; Lou Bramble, winner of the Latonia Oaks ; and Clifford, winner 

 of a score of great races and already prominent as a sire; and in addition to these 

 had always to his credit about forty thousand dollars at the close of each and every 

 season. Just why General Jackson ever sold him and retained Luke Blackburn, is 

 one of the mysteries I have never yet been able to unravel. 



GRINSTEAD, bay horse foaled 1871 and gotten by Gilroy out of Sister to Ruric by 

 imported Sovereign, was one of the best sires of his day, and to my way of think- 

 ing, the best sire that ever came from the male line of Lexington. He won several 

 good races at three years old and was sold at four to Mr. Elias J. Baldwin, of 

 Santa Anita, in Los Angeles County, California. He was a marked success from the 

 first, his best performers being from daughters of Virgil and imported Glenelg, 

 selected for him by the late Lewis R. Martin. Grinstead's get ran well everywhere 

 but seemed to have a lingering love for the Washington Park Course near Chicago. 

 The following table shows the number of stakes won by his get in ten years, be- 

 ginning with 1885 : 



American Derby* 2 Sheridan* I 



Drexel Stakes* 2 Boulevard Handicap* 2 



Gazelle Stakest ] St. Louis Railway Plate i 



Hyde Park* I Saratoga Cup I 



Hunter Stakest i Louisville Cup I 



Kentucky Stakes 2 Latonia Grand Prize I 



Ladies' Stakes i Westchester Handicap i 



* At Chicago; t at Coney Island. 



In addition to the above, the progeny of Grinstead ran second once for the 

 American Derby, Clipsetta Stakes at Cincinnati, Drexel Stakes, twice for the Hyde 

 Park, and once for the U. S. Hotel Stakes at Saratoga. His daughters, the most mag- 

 nificent looking herd of mares I ever saw in a single ownership, were never mated with 

 a horse that was their equal. His sons, Gano and Volante, were both fairly good in 

 the stud, Gano being the sire of Argentina, W r heel of Fortune and Gladiola; and 

 there are but few stallions that get three such good fillies as they were. He also got 



