232 The American Thoroughbred 



IMPORTED HAWKSWICK 



Never Started, Sire of that Good Winner, Divorce Court, Sold for 6000, Property of 

 Henry T. Oxnard, Oxnard, Cal. 



HAWKSWICK, imported, is full brother to Childwick, who defeated the great Ornie m 

 1893 for the Limekiln stakes, (run over the Rowley mile, i mile and II yards,) at 

 New Market, by three parts of a length. He is by the unbeaten St. Simon, the only 

 stallion in English history to head the winning sires' list for nine seasons, in one of 

 which 1901, he did not have a single classic winner to his credit. In that year his son 

 Florizel II, was second, being the sire of Volodyovski, who won the Derby; and of 

 Doricles, who won the St. Leger with the Derby winner second. In addition to this 

 two sons of St. Simon have headed the list, Persimmon in 1902, and St. Frusquin in 

 1903. Plaisanterie (dam of Childwick and Hawkswick), was bred in France, and her 

 breeding is given on another page. She won several good races on her native soil, and 

 at three years old was shipped over to England, where she won the Cesarewitch 

 Handicap (2, T 4 miles) from Xenia and Postscript, with nineteen others unplaced, car- 

 rying 106 pounds, giving six pounds to the second horse, and twenty-two pounds to the 

 third horse. Two weeks later Plaisanterie won the Cambridgeshire Handicap with 122 

 pounds, a crushing weight for a three-year-old. La Fleche won the same race with 

 the same weight, in 1892, but did not defeat as large a field of horses. She was bv St. 

 Simon also and was probably his best daughter, having previously won the One Thou- 

 sand Guineas, The Oaks and St. Leger, beating Sir Hugo (Derby winner of that 

 year and Watercress, now owned in California, with eight others unplaced. 



Poetess, second dam of Childwick and Hawkswick, was by the great French horse 

 Trocadero, son of Monarque. Trocadero won too many races to be recapitulated here, 

 his best performance being in the Alexandra Plate, (three miles at Ascot, in which 

 he carried the enormous weight of 144 pounds. This stamps Trocadero as the best 

 horse of that era, both as a distance goer and a weight carrier, no other horse having 

 ever carried within twelve pounds of that weight. Hawkswick's third dam was Do- 

 rette, by the Ranger, the first horse to win the Grand Prix de Paris. He was full 

 brother to Skirmisher, who won the gold cup at Ascot in 1858. The Gardham mare 

 which produced The Ranger, was the second dam of Cremorne, who won the Derby 

 and Grand Prix de Paris at three years old, and the Ascot cup and Alexandra Plate 

 at four. Blood could not be purer, richer or better. 



Hawkswick comes from the No. 21 family, from which came Hyppolita, Iris and 

 Lonely, winners of the Oaks; and Charles XII, who won the St. Leger and two Good- 

 wood Cups. The sires from this family are Shuttle, Sweetmeat and Longbow, all of 

 whom got classic winners in England. In America we find Hastings, Handsome, 

 Tranby and others of less note. Boiardo, one of the best stallions ever sent to Aus- 

 tralia, was also of this family, being by Orlando out of Longbow's dam; and another 

 great horse from this family was Australian Peer, who won the Victoria Derby and 

 the Sydney-Cup, two miles in 3:31 with 118 Ibs. up, at three years old. 



