228 The American Thoroughbred 



MA X N 1C 



Winner of the Western Produce Stakes at Oakland and the Stallion Stakes at' 



Sacramento. 



This is a bay horse bred by his owners in igoo, from Pic Nic, by Mr. Pickwick, 

 (son of Hermit and Tomato by King Tom, and imported from England by Charles 

 Reed, of Gallatin, Tenn.,) who was the sire of that great colt, Dobbins. Pic Nic was 

 brought to California by the late L. U. Shippee, of .Stockton ; and had already pro- 

 duced that good filly Recreation. Pic Nic was bred to Altamax in 1899, with Max- 

 nic as the result. He started ten times at two years old, winning twice, and four times 

 second. When beaten, it was in the hottest of company. There are horses credited 

 with a dozen races that never beat as good a colt as Maxnic. 



Ran second to Deutschland, 3^/2 furlongs in 44 seconds, with six others behind him 

 to whom he conceded from three to eight pounds. Won the Western Produce stakes; 

 value $5,700, five furlongs in i :o2 I / 2 giving weight to eight others, Sylvia Talbott sec- 

 ond and Vinctides third, Deutschland being sixth. Unplaced for the Tremont stakes, 

 at Brooklyn. Ran second to Stamping Ground (conceding her 12 pounds) in a sweep- 

 stake at Saratoga, Captain Arnold third with 117, and nine others unplaced, three of 

 them carrying less than 100 pounds to Maxnic's 124. . Second in a race for all ages, 

 won by Chuctanunda, the fastest sprinter in America, at seven furlongs, run in i -.2^/2 

 with nine others behind him, giving 18 pounds to Athelroy, the only other two-year- 

 old in the race, who finished ninth. In his next three efforts he finished outside the 

 money, being overweighted. At Coney Island he ran second to The Rival, at a 

 mile and a sixteenth, giving him a year's weight, in i 147, with Carbuncle, St. Finnan 

 lotente, Swamplands and Operator behind him. There was never a two-year-old so 

 completely handicapped out of a race as was Maxnic in this one. On his return to 

 California Maxnic won the Stallion Stakes at Sacramento, valued at $4,836, beating 

 St. Winfred, Gaviota, Polonius, The Major, Organdie and i^ervator, six furlongs in 

 i :i6. His total winnings were $10,480. 



Maxnic is as yet untried as a sire. He comes from great performing families on 

 either side, and great hopes of his progeny are entertained by his owners. He has 

 plenty of bone and substance, and is a most decidedly masculine horse in appearance. 

 His grandsire, Maxim, was certainly as good a Musket horse as ever left Australia ; 

 and the breeding of his dam will bear a very close and rigid scrutiny. 



Maxnic is from the No. 3 family in Bruce Lowe's system, whence come such great 

 ones as Sir Peter, 'i ramp, Stockwell, Rataplan, King Tom, Flying Dutchman, Laner- 

 cost, Toxophilite, Musket, Galopin and Velocipede, all sires of classical winners in Eng- 

 land ; and also such great winners, less known as sires, as Mameluke, Spaniel, Lapdog, 

 Kettledrum, Isinglass, Favonius, Van Tromp, General Peel and Moslem. This is by 

 long odds the best of all the sire families. From it have come, since 1780, no less 

 than 15 winners of the Derby, 14 of the Oaks, 13 each of the St. Leger and One 

 Thousand Guineas; and 10 of the Two Thousand Guineas, two of which (Stockwell 

 and Isinglass) won the St. Leger. 



