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PATR O CL US Continued 



Eonette, Castana, Morice, Castalia, dam of Chilton, Cassette, Casdale Mohegan Mi- 



mosa, Castalian, Adjidaumo and Fred Graft. 



Third dam, Cachuca, was a winner, dam of Donato, Cracovienne and Duvernay 

 fourth dam, Ayacanora, dam of Cestus, Chattanooga, Misfortune and Sir Amyas 

 Fifth dam, Pocahontas, dam of Stockwell, Rataplan, King Tom, etc., etc. 

 In 1903 Patroclus served eight mares, seven of which produced' live 'foals. In 1904 



he served ten mares. 



PRINCE OF MELBOURNE 



Winner of Many Races, Including the Brighton Cup and Realization Stakes at Coney 

 t Island, 1901. 



This horse is American on both sides of the house being by Bramble, the best and 

 by far the best, son of imported Bonnie Scotland, who headed the list of winning sires 

 in America in 1880 and 1883, in addition to being twice second and. three times third. 

 Bramble was a great horse at cup distances, winning n races after being five times 

 defeated consecutively, by Duke of Magenta. He was a very small horse but carried 

 weight in a style that was superb. He got many winners and was always near the top of the 

 list, though never premier ; and if he had gotten nothing but the brilliant Clifford, who, 

 at one time held the record at two different distances, and both times with the top- 

 weight of the race, that alone, should have made him famous as a sire. Bramble's 

 dam was Ivy Leaf, also dam of Waddill (first called Bazar), winner of 14 races; his 

 second dam was Bayflower, sister to Preakness. the hero of the famous dead heat for 

 the Saratoga Cup of 1875, and afterwards walked over, for the Brighton Cup, two miles, 

 in England ; and the third dam was Bay Leaf, the only American mare up to 1890 that 

 had produced three winners in England, Bay Final and Rubicon being the other two. 

 Maid of Balgowan (also dam of Oneko Maid and Maid of Promise,) is by Hindoo, a 

 great sire, and by long odds the best horse in America in 1881-82. Hindoo was the 

 sire of Hanover, a brilliant performer, and four times first on the list of winning sires, 

 as well as twice second by very narrow margins. Her dam was Ballet, who produced 

 Modesty, by War Dance, she being the only mare in twenty-five years to win the 

 American Derby at Chicago. Blue Grass Belle, herself a great winner, was a sister to 

 Modesty! The next dam was Balloon, by imp. Yorkshire, she being the dam of True 

 Blue and The Banshee, who produced that excellent sire, Apache. The next dam 

 Heraldry by Herald, imported, produced eight winners, five of which were stake win- 

 ners. The next dam was Margaret Woods, dam of Wade Hampton and Star Davis, 

 two of the fastest horses between 1849 and 1852; and the fifth dam, Maria West, pro- 

 duced the great Wagner, who won the $20,000 Post Stake at Louisville in 1839, beat- 

 ing Grey Eagle, Queen Mary and Hawkeye. In every generation of this pedigree are 

 to be found some great winners at all distances. 



Like Ben Brush, Prince of Melbourne comes from the family of Maria West, 

 which does not trace to any of the forty odd mares in the Bruce Lowe system. But in 

 each generation the Maria West family has had its clever representatives which ac- 

 counted for a large share of the public moneys run for in America. Wagner, who 

 raced at every track between the Ohio river and. the Gulf of Mexico for four seasons 

 and beat every horse of note, save Boston, was the first horse to attract attention to 

 this family, Childe Harold being the next. It is worthy of note that Childe Harold 

 was the first stallion to attract notice to the famous Belle Meade farm in Tennessee, 

 of which he was a shining light up to the time of his death. Star Davis, the fastest 

 horse in America till Lexington and Lecompte appeared, was another brilliant repre- 

 sentative of this family. He got Day Star, a winner of the Kentucky Derby. 



