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Galindo, a grey colt that won one of the big handicaps at Jerome Park twice. Ga- 

 lindo was out of Freda by Wildidle from Frolic by Thunder (brother to Lightning and 

 Lancaster) from imported Siskin by Muscovite, thus uniting the blood of Lexington 

 and Vandal's dam with two very strong crosses of Blacklock, through Tranby and 

 Brutandorf. Volante won thirty-six races in all and generally in good company ; and 

 got the dam of that great horse, The Picket, who won the American Derby of 1903. 



SALVATOR has done fairly well only when we consider how he was favored at the 

 Rancho del Paso, where he stood until 1902. He got the cream of the matrons at that 

 farm, to the neglect of all others save Sir Modred ; and still his son's win, in the 

 Futurity of 1903, was about the only thing to call any marked degree of attention to 

 him. 1 have heard men say he was not bred right for a sire, but that is the sheerest 

 of rot. Salvator came from a No. 12 mare, his female tail-line being that of Lexing- 

 ton, Vandal, Luke Blackburn, Strathmore, Grinstead, Ornament and a dozen other 

 sires of over-average merit. I saw Salvator at the Rancho del Paso, just after he 

 had come out of training. He was in fairly good flesh but not so fat as to obliterate 

 his magnificent conformation, and I may have seen a more perfectly formed horse 

 but cannot remember where. 



TENNY, by imported Rayon d'Or, out of Belle of Maywood, won the Brooklyn 

 Handicap of 1891 with the top-weight. As a sire he was good but not great. Taking 

 him as the trial horse between Salvator and Longstreet, I am compelled to pronounce 

 the latter the better performer as he beat Tenny always from two to three lengths, 

 whereas Salvator had all he could do to beat Tenny a neck. Moreover, Longstreet 

 won thirty races in all, winning more of them at five years old than Salvator ever 

 won in his whole career. That settled it, to my notion. 



INSPECTOR B. I cannot compare with Falsetto as the representative son of En- 

 quirer, but you cannot wholly ignore a horse that gets two such performers as (jeorgc 

 F. Smith and Endurance by Right. I have seen but few stallions I liked better than 

 Inspector B, who was, after Hanover and Hindoo, as good a horse as ever wore the 

 Dwyer colors. He always reminded me of that magnificent horse, Tirailleur, by 

 Musket out of imported Florence Macarthy by Macaroni, that was killed in a bumping 

 match over the Melbourne Cup of 1892. I had an option on him at $15,000 for a gen- 

 tleman of San Francisco, to be delivered after that race ; and I think now they are 

 sorry they did not scratch him before the race. A comparatively worthless gelding ran 

 into him, knocking him to his knees; and when he got up, his foreleg was found to be 

 broken, so that the intervention of the "friendly bullet" became a necessity. 



JIM GORE is not to be overlooked, either, for, while he does not compare with 

 Hanover as a sire, he is the next best son of Hindoo and was really preferable to Han- 

 over on the score of getting a sounder and better class of horses. Jim Gore was on 

 the Barcaldine order of architecture, a big horse on short legs. He belonged to my 

 good friend, Col. W. S. Barnes, of the Melbourne Stud, for whose recent misfortunes 

 no sincere man could help feeling the very deepest of sympathy. I don't know who 

 owns him now. 



MACDUFF, by imported Macaroon out of Jersey Lass by imported King Ernest, 

 was clearly one of the neglected sires of the past fifteen years. He got a Kentucky 

 Derby winner in Macbeth, who won it in 1887 and was 19 years old when he got that 

 speed marvel McChesney, one of the five greatest handicap horses of the past decade. 

 Suppose John McGurk did beat him in the Great Western Handicap? You could 

 handicap Ormonde till a donkey could run over him and kill him. Now that our 

 horses are becoming nearly as badly inbred to Eclipse as are those of England, the 

 need of as good a Herod horse as Macduff is very apparent to me. He came from the 

 line of Partisan. 



FALSETTO, a great race-horse and quite as noted as a sire, is one of the best of the 

 second generation of the Leamingtons. He was bred by the late Hunt Reynolds, near 



