'The American Thoroughbred 



1862 b c Elland by Rataplan 



1864 be Bandmaster by Kettledrum 



1865 be Kettle Holder by Kettledrum 



1867 b f Ella by Kettledrum 



1868 Lady Dunsop....by Kettledrum 



1870 be The 111 Used by Breadalbane (Imp. to U. S. A.) 



1872 b c Epigram by Blair Athol 



I consider Epigram a great sire. He got Le Grand, the only horse to defeat Mar- 

 tini Henry at three years old. 



THE VERY LATEST. 



The following is a correct statement (for which I am indebted to the Thorough- 

 bred Record, of Lexington, Ky.) of the amounts of money won by the first twenty 

 stallions on the list of winning sires in America for this year, together with the 

 amounts accredited to the largest winners in their respective progeny, up to and 

 including November 2, 1904 : 



STALLION'S NAME. AMOUNT. 



Meddler, imp $216,325 



Ben Brush 154,485 



Ben Strome, imp 112,344 



Hamburg 108,725 



Kingston 92,799 



Hastings 90,768 



Goldfinch, imp 88,926 



Atheling, imp 86,311 



King Eric 78,952 



Sir Dixon 71,811 



Octagon 66,705 



Gold Garter, imp 67,011 



Requital 65,100 



Lamplighter 63,743 



Esher, imp. (dead) 62,515 



Hermence, imp 60,630 



Pt. of Penzance 59,756 



The Commoner 5i>948 



Star Ruby, imp 50,273 



Ornament 48,334 



LARGEST W-INNER. 



AMOUNT. 



Tanya $58,635 



Delhi 77,355 



Highball (dead) 33,990 



Artful 57,205 



Dolly Spanker 24,080 



Glorifier 13,745 



Tradition 44,986 



Bryn Mawr 19,220 



Ort Wells 69,395 



Agile 12,702 



Beldame 49,995 



Dainty 23,565 



English Lad 27,825 



De Reske 29,885 



John Smulski 8,995 



Hermis 31,725 



Miss Inez 8,980 



Kurtzman 12,125 



Africander 19,085 



Sheriff Bell 9,130 



In 1860, when Planet, Congaree, Daniel Boone and Sigma were the four biggest 

 winners of the year, Revenue led with about $29,000 in round numbers, of which al- 

 most the entire amount was contributed by Planet, Exchequer and Fanny Washington. 

 In 1861 Lexington was first and the California stallion, Williamson's Belmont, second, 

 the latter solely through the winning of one horse, the evergreen Dashaway, who 

 was supposed to have won a sweepstake of $10,000 at Sacramento, but in settlement 

 of which his owner, Mr. W. A. Grigsby, was obliged to take a lot of horses worth 

 less than $4,000. I never had any use for Col. E. S. Lathrop (owner of Langford) 

 after that. 



An amusing feature of the foregoing list is the interesting fact that Ben Strome, 

 who is third this year (not yet completed) with $112,344 to his credit, has $5,229 

 more than he had at the close of 1903, when he was premier of all America. I don't 

 think that any increase in the winnings of the horses above named will make any 



