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Show haceiis as r.nooD MAnES. Tow Gicat Turf Queens Have Fro-dured Fro-dured Speedy Toals. Some time ago I compiled a table howliiK thi. the former rh.implon stallions had, aa a rule, hem success-fill success-fill tn Ihe stud That developed hoises have and urn shlng apeed with stent uiiiformlt Is a well-known fact and that the klnR plna hive almost nlto. BCther pioved failures may he simply to show Iheie Is no loyal loul lo breed-Iiir breed-Iiir extieine speed Follow Iiik nnolhtr line nf Inveatlgv-tlon, Inveatlgv-tlon, It will he found that none nf the former querns of Ihe turf have earned Ihe distinction of In Ins termed ft 'Bruit bropl nuie" the teim emplojed bj horeenun to dcslRinle in.ues llinc hive pmihiifd two nr inoic 2 10 liotters, or one sutli Hotter hiiI the she nr the dam of unothei u( standaul speed Morn than 40011 of these successful spied producers pro-ducers have hi en teiordul et the long Mat mas ho searched In vain lor tho mine of it ulligle mare tint his evir loweied the vvorll's trotting record ho persistent has been Iho f-illure of the famous trotllUR males to pro hico nothing like Ihe equals of themselves Ihut th. Ir lack of sun-ess, avin I. astern ast-ern sci Ibe Rin. I freqiientirinnde the bails of an aisument against bleeding fom in ires havlim- fast rertmls. cei-lain cei-lain them lata inalntnlnlnij that animal ani-mal pf tmduMloped spied will moie certainly produte speed than wll thoao whose rapidly as tmiteis Is known und demonstrated While Ihe few turf champion seem lo afford gi on"'! for their belief, tho Rreat mis of statlatlcs point Ihe other way and bears out the V& "thla has rn'umeans,,,c.nR.y XtTho '.tcord holder, a. brood :,,ioTofl,laeBone,lrbe,haf,eln,,, Vf"t,e eight' mares .hit have held tho w oi Id's rtcord. four i cached h.lr tvven-tlelh tvven-tlelh year before being bied, and only onJAn ber cree, as a brood mire b?for;. she was 11) seals "Id, hlle th" nvernge iige was alsiin 15 jeara. ana when added to thla I" tho failure to get in foa nml tt e loss of foils shoitly uf-? uf-? ,0WrTh? Wr oPP'-rl'inliy ' ' hs ii has been limited Indeed WAI)V PITFOLK'S HECOltD Lidv Biiffolk the old gray mare that utarli'd tho 10 list by troll ng a mile ?n hnronf In 2 S9'b over the lleacon "u .e "t Hpboken in Hjl. lUnl to be il years old. and died without leavlnd n foal This was not slrunge. Iiowevei ?Jnt.,i hi 1831 and .anipalgned i-ontln-'o, WI IH1. -he Lotted 1 rMM of nVarly son heats al one two. I matured ,A,V ". ",t ln M " rr'-?!?. rr'-?!?. .h y.,,0Vr.l ,0 hlm a ' weeks be- by ""lie"'' 5!iM hr '"nerted pacer om at "S,'.,h?.t." ,h' trotting r niter Li.-' 'I1 m? rrrsltieed six foals were Z T" H" w'r "" They ;;"' ''J m. Ii sires as Oeorpe M an, hn;, l"1'. aih'' Allen? 5MH. MamhrlCni?f'l.B. Ahlan.1 a Son of goMnti m h.' ,ut n01"' of ,hrm "" Maid V'eAi3VM """K HlRhland Pioduriii ".""r of K"'a" Allen. Pioduced Highland Win 2 s, nnd OeSrM v":!"n- """ "l-'ish'er of le "te,,f" -nies Into the ped-enA ped-enA .K',0,"0 lro"ers In the easy . S r,",n Himr medlorrltl how h.I.' . ."" "n bus long since droppeii out of sight Flora Temple : i, the Aral trotter o hem 2 jo, nd the wonder of held"" produced three foals after she was , mor? !S' nn,,,""r 'be hid started In more than lfto races elghtv six ot which she won She lived to be nearly " ?r" "ld K"'llv Temple her first foal, was horn In Kfi, nnl was I !l -2i n"n f iHlk llnnihletonun Hhe llguies In the re,ords as the dun of Tempiette a ba gelding that epieex. 1 i, ol :i M,t '" IBlt with a mark of 2 2fiv, Prince lmpeilal Florissei nnd foal was by Henrj Wehh another I son of Ilnmbletonlan Aftel i long lifetime In the stud he eot Nam u chestnut mnie lh.it Hotted In . pii.. Although l'rlnce Imperial nevei Rilmd public record, he trotted a mile In 2 2H4 In private for Robert Honner who owned both hlm and Kltt Temple Hoi a Temple was bred tn the famous Imported Kngllah raie hoiee tx'iinilnR Inn In urn md produced a ha llllv by hlm Hint was tailed The Queens I'lttghler She never tiiitted oi pio-duied pio-duied a trolter, so far as Is known UOI.rWMlTH MA1I1S t'AMI'tKIS (loldsmlth Muld. 2 II, the greite.t of all eiinipnlgners and the mate thai tlrst lowered Dexter's record had her III at foil whin she was 22 ears old nnd pioduced tun nioie befoie she died In iw, nt the ag of 2D All w.re bv OeoiRe Waahlngton, a son of her old ilval. l.nl Ihorn 2 IS',, and Hen Knox. 2 H4 The oldest of her foals was killed In coltliooil Ihe second was MrnnRer, a horae of great nnturnl rpced. Hut went wrong tn training He was one of the most successful Hotting alios ot his day, hiving six lepresenla-tlvis lepresenla-tlvis In the 2 15 list and more thin thlrt In the 2 10 Hat Ito.ebud, the oungeat of Holdsnilth .Maid's foals, has been kept for hi ceiling purposes all hei life, but has not pioduced anv thing of note. Maud S, 2 0;4, the tlrst trotter to belt .'10 never iroduted n foal This was deeply regrettid, not only by her owner, Itobert Homier, but b bleeders and horse fanciers Renerallj, hei rich nnd fashionable pedlgiee. combined with her extreme speed, nervous ener-g ener-g und beiuty of form, linking her probiblv the most desirable mare ever fnabd for breeding puriioaes She was by Harold, the sou of Hamhlttonlan, whose daughters pioduced such cintk trotters as Heuzetta 2 PC'., Karly lllrd, 2 10, l'xtasv 2 lltj Impetuous, 2 14, ett Her dam, Miss IUisst.ll. vvns one nf tho most prollilc of all the speed-producing daughleis or Pilot. Jr. Sunol vvns never bred while owned by Hubert Honner He firmly believed hei to be the fastest trotter ever foaled, and to the da of his death he expected to see her wrest tluj woiltg record from Allx, 2 03H. who then held It O. V. Williams, the owner of Allerton, 2 0ii, nine offered n fabulous sum for her breeding qualities foi one jcar, but Mr. Honner proinotly det lined It Sunol was 14 vcars old when Mr. Honner died, und John 11. Shults bought her He kurprlscd the horse world b breeding her to an untiled colt She pioved fertile fer-tile but hc foal that came last eur dred when a week old, and last spring ihe lost unother Nancy Hanks. 2 01, the nunc that succeeded Bunnlln the list of recoul-hreakers. recoul-hreakers. Is piovlng to bo by far the most pinllflc nnd stiiceaaful hiood in iro among nil the chnmplons hhfc was put to bleeding In 1835, when P-Jcars old. and she his since then pioduced a foal marly eveiy ,car. Her first born. Nation, by Arlon, 2 0Ti Is now the dain of some promising voung trotters, bj Hlngcn, 2.03'4, and Peter the Oreat i 07'.. Her foil In 1SJS, Admiral IK'ivey, by Hlngeii, was one of Iho best three-eai-olds nut last season, having vvdn all his races and gained iv record o 2 141, j Among the (lilies from Nancy Hanks Is one by the ltnimrled Hngllsh race- horse Meddler. J Malcolm Torbcs, her lownei, does not expect this cross-bred jouugster to trot fast, but ho. Is hope-I hope-I ful that when bied to Hlngcn she may I produte n trottsr of sensational speed Mr. Forbes Is resit vlng all Ihe lllllea from Nancy llnnks for breeding pur-poaea, pur-poaea, and proposes to develop the speed nnd the fciuolo brnnch or the family lu the second generation only It Is loo early lo say that a notable family nl trotter will spilng from Nancy Hank, but Ihe daughter of Huppy Medium and Nancj I.ee looks more like a great brood mare than any other that ever held the worl I s record Allx, 2 0.1V,, the fastest nnd stoutest tioltlng mare nf them all, was bred and built to be a gnat mother of trot-teis. trot-teis. but Ihe Ill-luck which seems to have followed so many other turf tpieens puisued her alao, nnd she tiled In the prime of )lfe, n yeai ago, len-ng len-ng onl one foal, hy Hahle Wilkes. 2 IR. -Palmer U Clark. In Chicago Inter Ocean. |