120 'The American thoroughbred 



Frankfort ; and was by Enquirer out of Farfaletta by imported Australian, from Elk- 

 horna by Lexington, from Glencona, the next dam being by Imported Envoy, a son 

 of Memnon, who won the St. Leger of 1825. Falsetto ran second to Lord Murphy in 

 the Kentucky Derby and won nearly every other event for which he started, beating 

 the great Spendthrift in both the Travers and Kenner Stakes at Saratoga, as easily 

 as Spendthrift beat everything else. On his retirement to the stud Falsetto showed 

 such evident power as a sire that Robert Alexander bought him of Pierre Lorillard 

 for the then famous Woodburn stud, now gone out of existence. Falsetto got Dew 

 Drop, the best filly of her day, for whom the Dwyers paid the then enormous price 

 of $29,000 at auction. He goes down to history as the sire of Chant and The Picket, 

 winners of the Kentucky Derby, getting the latter horse at 24 years of age ; Patron, 

 winner of the Belmont Stakes and the Brooklyn Derby; and Counter Tenor and 

 Kenwood, winners of the Carlton Stakes at Gravesend; Gallifet, winner of the Clark 

 Stakes at Louisville ; Jennie T, winner of the Clipsetta at Latonia ; Miss Dixie, winner 

 of the Kentucky Oaks ; Fordham, winner of the Nursery at Jerome Park and sold 

 to Germany for $20,000; Bright Phoebus, winner of the Realization of 1895; Port- 

 chester, winner of the Tidal Stakes at Coney Island, and Bob L, winner of the Tobacco 

 Stakes at Latonia. Few horses get as many stake-winners as did the old white-faced 

 brown horse that died at Louisville last August. 



ONONDAGA, brother to Stratford and Sensation, got many good winners, having 

 to his credit the winners of no less than 169 races in 1892, his get being also 161 times 

 second and 153 times third. Iroquois was premier in that year with $179,477 to his 

 credit, but he did not make any such showing as Onondaga in the matter of races 

 won, but Onondaga had $107,082 to his credit in money in that year, being fifth on the 

 list. His daughters have outbred those of any other son of Leamington, barring 

 Enquirer and Longfellow. 



SENSATION was never the equal of Onondaga and never got anything but selling 

 platers till Mr. Lorillard sent a lot of his youngsters to England to be trained. In the 

 season of 1897, Sensation had in England the winners of 7,345 ; and in 1889, chiefly 

 through the victories of Democrat, and Doninie, he was second on the list of winning 

 sires to Orme, having the winners of 12,096. In that year Orme had to his credit 

 32,938, of which 23,175 was contributed by Flying Fox, now owned in France. 

 Sensation got the dam of Jean Beraud, the best American three-year-old of 1898, while 

 others of his daughters have bred well but not equal to those of Onondaga. 



HIMYAR, for one season, beat all native American sires and imported ones as 

 well, having to his credit, in 1893, the enormous sum of $246,382, of which $171,730 

 was won by Domino and $10,995 by Domino's full sister, Correction. This was a larger 

 .sum than had been won by the get of any other sire on earth, barring StockwelL 

 Hermit never equalled it, nor did St. Simon until 1890 when Diamond Jubilee carried 

 off "the triple crown." But if you will add to what his get won in the United States, 

 what the get of Sir Dixon won in England and France in 1901, you will find Sir Dixon 

 considerably ahead of Himyar. However that may be, Himyar stands considerably 

 in front of St. Blaise, Iroquois and Longfellow, they being the only others to get' 

 winners of over $180,000 in America for any given season. Himyar comes from the 

 No. 2 family, which produced Voltigeur, Harkaway and the ineffaceable Blacklock; 

 and his male line, through Alarm (American), Eclipse and Orlando, ranks second 

 only to those of Sultan and Partisan, being a long way the speediest of all the 

 Touchstone blood. If you doubt it, read the two-year-old races won by the progeny 

 of Orlando. In 1897 Major B. G. Thomas, who bred and owned Himyar, got into 

 trouble through endorsements of notes for some personal friends and was obliged to 

 sell his horses. The late Mr. Edward S. Gardner, of Nashville, wrote to me to ask 

 what he ought to bid on them; and I replied "Himyar $2,500 and Mazetto $5,000." 



