122 The American Thoroughbred 



beat the great Hanover, then the best of American three-year-olds. They acted on 

 his advice and bought him, after which he proved a veritable gold mine to them. He 

 started in 132 races, of which he won 87, being 30 times second, 10 times third and 5 

 times unplaced. He campaigned for nine seasons, his total winnings in purses and 

 stakes being $114,757; an d in his first seven seasons he was outside the money just 

 once ! He covered a mile and a quarter in 2 :o6j/2 with 122 Ibs. and in 2 '.07^2 with 126 

 Ibs; a mile and three-sixteenths in 2:00^4 with 102 Ibs. at three years old; the Futurity 

 course (170 feet short of six furlongs) with 139 Ibs. in 1:08; and seven furlongs in 

 i -.26 with 126 Ibs. up. 



If this does not show him to have been a first-class racehorse, I do not know the 

 meaning of that term. His largest winnings were at seven years old $20,655, but he 

 got as his share over $15,000 in four other years. He stood his first season at 

 McGrathiana, but was subsequently sold for $10,000 to James R. Keene, Esq., at 

 whose Castleton farm he still remains, in charge of that past-master in the art of 

 mating mares, Major Foxhall Daingerfield. He got Ballyhoo Bey, winner of the 

 Futurity in igop ; King's Courier, winner of the Doncaster Cup and several other 

 good races in England ; and many other horses of undeniable class. That he is the 

 best American-bred horse of Matchem's male line, goes without saying. In color he 

 is a dark brown with tan nose and flanks, standing about 155/2 hands high, but with 

 back and loins strong enough for an elephant. His girth, now that he is in the 

 high flesh usual among covering stallions, cannot be much less than 6 feet, 8 inches. 

 He measures 8j4 inches under the knees, which accounts satisfactorily for his great 

 durability as a campaign horse. His possibilities as a sire might be increased, were 

 it not for the fact that all the stallions at Castleton are kept exclusively for the 

 owner's use. 



ORNAMENT, by imported Order, has strongly and surely worked his way to the 

 front. He is but eleven years old and has already made a mark for himself as a 

 worthy exponent of Stockwell's male line. He won three Derbys and a capital race 

 for the Brooklyn Handicap, run in the mud in 2:10, beating Ben Holladay, 5 years, 121 

 pounds; Sly. Fox, 3, 92; Tillo, 4, 118; Don de Oro, 4, 113; Senper Ego, 5, 107; Ogden, 

 4, 109, and On Deck, 4, 119. Ornament was fifth at the half-mile and second to Sly 

 Fox at the head of the stretch, so it will be seen that he won purely on his gameness. 

 The race was worth $7,800. When we consider that Ben Holladay was considered the 

 best long-distance horse between 1895 and 1900, the fact that Ornament gave him a year 

 and six pounds is something to cause careful men to put on their studying-caps. And 

 yet the obstinate fact still remains that Ornament was by a maiden and out of a maiden. 

 Was it because they were raced too much that Rataplan, Lanercost, Charles XII and 

 Vedette, never headed the list of sires in England ; or that neither Hindoo, Salvator nor 

 The Bard ever topped the ranks in America? I believe that every stallion should 

 either be emasculated or withdrawn from the turf at the end of five years. 



KILMARNOCK is the horse to whom the breeding public naturally looks as the 

 most fitting successor to Sir Dixon. Being out of Miss Used by The 111 Used, from 

 Madcap by Matador, from Fen Follet (dam of St. Florian by Kingfisher) the student 

 of breeding could ask for no happier combination of speed with great staying power. 

 He won the Alexandra Plate (3 miles) at Royal Ascot in June, 1901, and in October 

 of that year crossed the Channel to win the Prix de Conseil Municipale at Longchamps, 

 which he did with 140 pounds on him and had something to spare. This horse is one 

 of the No. 19 family, from which we derive Vedette, Isonomy, Lowlander, King Lud 

 and Fernandez in England ; and Lissak, Thunderstorm, Midlothian and Woodlands in 

 America. There is no better blood than this for Vedette got the great Galopin, sire of 

 St. Simon ; and Isonomy is the only stallion in history to get two winners of England's 

 triple crown. It is hard to find the speed and staying lines better balanced in any 

 horse than they are in Kilmarnock. 



