220 'The American Thoroughbred 



INFLEXIBLE 



Winner of the Swf and Foam Stakes at Coney Island. Property of H. T. Oxnard. 



INFLEXIBLE, bay horse, foaled in 1901, was bred by the late William C. Whitney, of 

 New York, being by the great Hamburg (winner of the Great Eastern Handicap with 

 !35 pounds), out of imported Berriedale, one of the choicest matrons selected for the 

 late Marcus Daly's Bitter Root Stud, Ravalli county, Montana. She is by Donovan, 

 winner of the Derby and St. Leger of 1889 and the largest money-winner in the world 

 up to that date. Inflexible won a sweepstake at Morris Park, half a mile in 52 sec- 

 onds with 108 pounds, beating Collector Jessup, Masedo, Jocund and seven others. 

 Won the Foam Stakes at Coney Island, five furlongs in i :oiJ/2, with 118 pounds, beat- 

 ing Mimosa 115, Monsoon in, and nine others, including such good ones as Bob Mur- 

 phy, Race King, Clifton Forge, Monet and Juvenal Maxim, all of which have won big 

 money since. He was never extended at any part of the race, the value of which was 

 $5,895. His next race was for the Surf Stakes at the same track where the penalties 

 brought his weight up to 129 pounds, with which he won in i 107, a fast race for 5 l / 2 

 furlongs. Value $5,385. Monsoon in was second and Yellow Hammer 114 third with 

 five others unplaced. It was Mr. Whitney's expectation to win the Futurity race with 

 this grand colt, but he came out of the Surf Stakes quite lame and all efforts to bring 

 him to another race were wholly unavailing, and he was permanently retired, shortly 

 afterwards becoming the property of his present owner. When it is remembered that 

 Hamburg Belle won the Futurity with Leonidas second (also by Hamburg, the sire of 

 Inflexible), the latter carrying the top weight of the race, and that Inflexible, up to the 

 time of his retirement, had won twice as much money as either of these two, it will be 

 seen that he was a colt of unquestioned class. 



In person, Inflexible is as handsome a horse as one could wish to see. In color 

 he is a blood bay, with a degree of substance and heavy bone that he plainly inherits 

 from his marvellous sire who is the only stallion to get two winners of the Futurity, 

 and who is the largest winning sire of the past two years when you consider the num- 

 ber of starters he has had in his name. The student of pedigrees will find all the best 

 blood of America in Inflexible's sire, as Hamburg's second dam produced the great 

 Domino who won over $180,000 at two years old ; and the best blood of England in his 

 dam, which belongs to the No. 8 family, from which came such flyers as Beeswing, 

 Newminster, Nunnykirk, Sultan, Ayrshire, Sir Tatton Sykes, Orville, Melton, The 

 Colonel, Octavian, Andover, Rhedycina and Governess. 



This family shows three winners each of the Derby, Oaks, Two Thousand and One 

 Thousand Guineas, and eight of the St. Leger, making twenty classic winners in all. 



Inflexible commands as much attention as any other horse in this book, on ac- 

 count of the patrician blood that is to be found in the dam's side of his pedigree. It is 

 not only good but absolutely great in every generation. His third dam, Atalanta, 

 produced Ayshire, winner of the Derby and Two Thousand Guineas of 1888, and now 

 the best exponent c- Hampton's line. He got the Oaks winner, Airs and Graces. 

 Inflexible's fourth dam, Feronia, produced St. Serf by St. Simon; and about the 

 first horse to confer fame on that marvelous sire. The next dam, Woodbine, pro- 

 duced several good winners ; and the next was Honeysuckle, own sister to New- 

 minster, a St. Leger winner and a good deal the best son of Touchstone when you 

 compute them by their value as sires. The next dam was Beeswing, the greatest 

 racing mare in English history, she having won 52 races out of 63, including 4 Don- 

 caster Cups. 



