The American Thoroughbred 



hurricane, got two winners of the Oaks, in Formosa and Brigantine, before his ex- 

 patriation, but there were greater honors hr store for him. The owner of Mineral, 

 by Rataplan, had sold her to Hungary just after she weaned her colt by Lord Clifden, 

 called Wenlock, who afterwards defeated the great Prince Charlie in the St. Leger. 

 Mineral was mated with Buccaneer and the result was Kisber, who won the Epsom 

 Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris in 1876; and he was rated to be from 7 to 10 

 pounds better than Petrarch (by Lord Clifden Laura by Orlando) who not only won 

 the Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger of that year but annexed the Ascot Gold 

 Cup in the year following. Kisber got a great many good horses during the one 

 season he made in England, among them the mare Fairy Rose which was imported to 

 California by the late Hon. Leland Stanford ; and which produced Racine, winner of 

 the Oakwood Handicap at Chicago in 1891 (about the best race of that whole year) 

 and Fairy, winner of twenty odd races, including the Palisade Stakes at Morris Park. 

 Fairy produced Indian Fairy by Iroquois, she being a winner of the Matron Stakes at 

 Morris Park. As a proof of the excellence of Fairy Rose. I would state that both 

 Racine and Fairy were by very inferior stallions, barely out of the third class. Kisber 

 was best on his native heath for he headed the list of sires in Austro-Hungary in 

 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1893, one of his sons being second to him in 1891 and third to him 

 in 1893 ; and that two other sons were ninth and twelfth in 1892. This, I think, shows 

 Kisber to have been a stallion of exceptional merit and far better than his half-brother, 

 Wenlock, although the latter horse and Hampton are the only two stallions since 1880 

 to get the dams of two Derby winners. Kisber got Crafton, who ran second to Paradox 

 in the Two Thousand Guineas and beat him afterwards at longer distances. Buccaneer, 

 the sire of Kisber, also got lolanta, who is found in California pedigrees as the grand 

 dam of the excellent little racehorse Indio (by imported Maxim) who has gotten several 

 good ones, including Hurstbourne, one of the best second-class horses in America. 



CAMBUSCAN was a speed marvel at two years old and won the July Stakes of 

 1863 at Newmarket in such impressive style as to make him divide public sentiment 

 with General Peel and Scottish Chief for the mid-winter betting on the Derby of 1864, 

 which was won by the big and bullocky Blair Athol, with the two above horses placed 

 and the wonderful Cambuscan nowhere. Cambuscan got some good broodmares and 

 he also got Onslow, a horse good enough at two years to beat Cremorne, who was then 

 at his best and who won the Derby, Grand Prix de Paris and Ascot Cup in the next 

 two years. 



CAMBUSCAN was sold to Hungary about his twelfth year and there he got a mare 

 whose performances are, in one sense, without a parallel. Her name was Kincsem, 

 named after the place where she was foaled ; and she was by Cambuscan out of Water 

 Nymph by Cotswold (son of Sir Hercules) from Mermaid by Melbourne. Kincsem 

 was raced three seasons, starting 54 times and winning every race she went for! Her 

 best performance was winning the Goodwood Cup of 1878, from Pageant and Lady 

 Golightly, the latter of whom was conceding Kincsem seven pounds ; and eleven others 

 were unplaced which does not argue a great deal, for Pageant, a five-year-old, was 

 carrying 121 pounds to Kincsem's 109. Of course, it sounds very loud to say that a 

 filly won 54 straight races, but Kincsem never met any such class as did old Rataplan, 

 who won 42 races out of 71; or Alice Hawthorn, who won 50^2 out of 68; or the in- 

 comparable Beeswing, who won 52 out of 63. In but few of her races did Kincsem 

 ever carry over 115 pounds, while Beeswing and Alice each carried from 126 to 129 

 on a dozen occasions. It was impossible to imagine a mare less fashionably bred than 

 Kincsem, yet she was a marvelous galloper like Robert the Devil, who was also of 

 decidedly plebeian lineage. Cambuscan was of a fairly good family, but not great. 

 He got the famous matron, Idalia, before leaving England for the land of the Magyars ; 

 and she produced five great sons in Sir Modred, Cheviot, Betrayer, Idalium and July. 

 Idalium, who died in California, was a good-looking horse but the poorest of the lot,. 



