216 The American Thoroughbred 



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PATROCLUS 



Bay horse, foaled 1895. Bred by the Estate of David D. Withers. The property of 

 Dr. Bryan Obear, St. Louis Mo. 



PATROCLUS is a rich mahogany bay, with black points, a small white star in his 

 forehead, a little white on the coronet of his left fore-foot, a black spot in front of his 

 left hip bone. Height 64^2 inches, weight 1165 pounds, girth 74^ inches, measures 

 8^4 inches below the knee, flat bone, stands true on his legs, best of feet, which are a 

 little underneath him, and he is perfect in action. His temper is superb. His eyes are 

 large and expressive. Head and ear neat, with neck set into oblique stout shoulders, 

 back short and arched over loins, beautiful quarters, large without lumber and high 

 on the crupper. He favors in general appearance his great grand sire, Boston, to 

 whom many assert he bears a striking likeness, except color. 



Owing to sickness and many accidents, Patroclus won only two races, one as a 

 two-year-old, at Kinloch Park, $ l / 2 furlongs, Oct. 12, 1900, beating a field of ten 

 horses, 103 Ibs. up, in i :o8y 2 . Handicap, i 1-16 m., Oct. 29, 1901, 98 Ibs. up, in i '.tf l /4, 

 beating a field of seven horses. He was caught in a railroad wreck on the Illinois 

 Central Railroad at Makanda, Ills., May 3, 1902, in which he had his shoulder dis- 

 located and bruised, two ribs broken and was badly scarred up. At. Kinlock Park, 

 Oct. 25, 1903, in a private trial he worked i m. in i :38 with 125 Ibs up. At New 

 Orleans, Nov. 3, 1903, he picked up a nail and had to be thrown out of training. 



In a letter dated April 2, 1901, Mr. Joseph Osborne (Beacon), the British turf 

 authority, says : 



"I think the breeding of Patroclus so choice and so palpably so, that you ought 

 by all means to preserve him for the stud, selecting mares only that are suitable for 

 him, for from the grand blood there is in him on both sides of the house, he is bound to 

 make a valuable sire. 



In closely examining the blood of Patroclus, you can see he is inbred to Glencoe, 

 that great sire appearing twice in Uncas through his dam, Coral, who was gotten by 

 a son of Glencoe, whose grand-dam, Glencairn, was Glencoe's full sister, while Cadence, 

 the dam of Patroclus is directly descended from Pocahontas, the greatest brood mare 

 of all time by Glencoe. And then you cannot help noticing that both Uncas and 

 Cadence have each similar blood in them besides, viz. : Touchstone, and further back. 

 Camel, Catton, Blacklock, Whisker, Whalebone, Waxy, Orville, Pot-8-os, all great per- 

 formers on the turf, and sires of world wide fame. 



Patroclus is thus inbred in the right way, i. e., through both sire and dam, com- 

 ing down through the most famous horses known to the world, while he has mixed 

 in him the blood of many other great horses, such as Diomed, and his great grandson 

 Lexington, inbred to Diomed through his celebrated son, Sir Archy, Slane, Gladiator. 

 Pantaloon, Sir Hercules, Voltaire, Birdcatcher, Bob Booty, Margrave and Drone, etc.. 

 etc. Surely, being so bred, if Patroclus fails to get first-class race horses, it will be 

 strange and unaccountable. 



It is only a question of time until the thoroughbred breeders of Great Britain and 

 the world will be compelled to go to Matchem or Herod line horses for sires, and in 

 my humble opinion Herod is the preferable line with which to cross inbred Eclipse 

 mares. France has a number of Herod line horses through Glaucus, and America 

 through Glencoe and Lexington. The latter is much tabooed at the present time in 

 tail-male, but I believe his son's failure due only to lack of access to the proper 

 blood." 



Uncas was one of the last and among the best sons of Lexington, a grand race 

 horse, and at the stud produced Laggard, a first-class race horse ; Dunboyne, a high 

 class horse ; the stake winners, Cascade, McCarthy, St. Michael, Copyright, Helen 

 Block, Oneko, Cassette and Pactolus, full brother to Patroclus, Frank Harris, En- 

 chantor, Umbrella, Post Haste, The Knicknack filly and a large number of others. 



Cadence, his dam, produced Trill, Cascade, Orator, Jack McDonald and Pactolus. 

 Cascade was a stake winner, and produced Lizzie T. (stake winner) and Cataract. 

 Trill produced Melba (dam of Stalwart, winner $58,000 in 1904), Trillion (stake win- 

 ner), Trillette, Quaver, Royal Salute, Musette and Triolet. 



Second dam, Castagnette, produced Casino (a sire), Maroon, Druidess, Roby, 



