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Show EQUII PEERS FlOl 1EIASC1E HITS Colin and Ballot, Keenc's " Blue Blooded Racers, Are-Popular Are-Popular in England.' ' . "' " N0. other two horses of recent years arc more pridcfully cctccnicd in tbl countrj- than t.)io mighty Kccnc ohiim-plons, ohiim-plons, Colin, and Hallot. Hotb arc now ip Kngland aii stall majea In the stud oven as (bey were slali lnatc? in the days of their many triumphs on the track In tins country. , London Sporting Sport-ing Lifo's "aporial commissioner" recently re-cently traveled to Newnixrkot to -Inspect the two celcbi-illc. and account of hl3 visit and impressions js 0f interest to American admirers, of racing. Here it Ip: "My first objective was the Heath Stud farm, one of the well-managed establishment of Lord Marcu.s Viereafoiil. There I found that preparation!! were quietly bejng mndu for the approaching stud, season. The 'personnel' is pixi' much what It was a. year ago. Thrush. Colin, St. Potersbnrg and The Wag are will there, and they ha e been joined by Ballot and Cocksure 11. Like Colin, Pallet i the property of ,1. n. Kccnc. "Like Colin jigafn, bn was a- great performer per-former in America, where h, won prizes to the value of over J15O.O0O. pallet can. however, also claim credit for having won a. nice In England the Floct Make at. Newmarket wherein he defeated Valcm and Succour. At jc same time. I It ia neee.:ary to lay Mreflr- on the fact that wo did not pee him produce hi. best form In this country, nor anything like j "He nerr been mo thoroughly acclimated. accli-mated. In regard to this matter of- acclimatization ac-climatization horFcs differ -.cry materially. ma-terially. Ve may, however, take it as a fait that Ballot was a high-class race' horse. So far as appearances are concerned. con-cerned. h is al?o an Impressive, individual. indi-vidual. When he and Colin wero shown lu the. paddock tocether at Ascot .tome of our best judges f blood stock expressed ex-pressed a preference for the foii of Voter. "There' in. of course, no getting. a.wav from the prejudice or objection call i't nbut yon will- against -inerlcan-tatntcd Wood entertained U most ISncllKli breed-err-. This altitude inajc 01 uiaj not be justltlcd. Americans themselves are very wroth as a rule when exception Is taken" to one- of their unlmals because It does not trace In every line to the English Stud book. Thoir contention la that the original American marcs wero just aa good as the English original marcs. The argument is probably unsound. un-sound. "Be this as it may, I bore Is no necessity neces-sity In the case of Ballot to quarrel with his pedigree. It is English through and through.. His sire, Voter. Is by Friar's Balsam, out of Mavourneen. hv Burcal-dine Burcal-dine out of Cuydene. 'by Albert Arictor; his dam. Cerito. Is by. Lowland Chief out of Merry Papce. by Doncaster. "Coritu is or was (for f cannot sav whether she Is still living) inbred to htockwcll. with only two "free generations. genera-tions. Lowland Chief's dam. Bathilde. being, like Doncaster. by the- 'Emperor1 cf Stallions. ' There Is also a strain of btoekwell In the upper balf of the. pedigree, pedi-gree, obtained through Flower or Dorset, the dam of Friar's Balsam. Ballot returned re-turned to England n few weeks ago. TIiIh will bo bis second season at the stud, for he was mated with several i;iars In America last season. 1 In Is a yorr handsome, hand-some, rich chestnut horac, Blandlng 10 hands. ; "Colin, almost beyond doubt the most brilliant performer thut over trod the turf In America, ha it ready bad two seasons at the stud in Kimland. Me. ha3 not vet bad many marcsnot the number num-ber "which his record entitled him to receive, t "I suppose our breeders want to set sonic winners by him before they place reliance on his ability to set cood sloci. 1 und'-rstand there nre avernl marcs aboufduc to foal to him. Since, he went to the Heath Stud. Colin has steadily Improve. In appearance, not that there was mn.-li fault to be found wliilc he var; 111 Iralnlii. , . "He Is a rich brown horse, very shape,-lw shape,-lw and showing beautiful iiuallty. Its activity Is one. or hlr. cha.ro eter Is t es. Even-body by thi time must know that, lu America he went to the post llfteen times, was never beaten, and won slakes to thr value of over $150,000. Uil precl-ouo precl-ouo occasions I have drawn attention to the gr-at wealth of Touchlsono blood there" Is in bis pedigree. "When writing about Ballot t Should have laid .strei'3 on t lie fact that the name of Calopln docs not figure .In bis pedigree. It Is also missing from that of Colin. Those breeders, therefore, who think that we hnvo loo much Onlopln, and are Inclined to complain that it. Is difficult to get away from him. may be well advised t; give heed to the claims of these two high-class Amerlcau-brcd horses at the Heath Stud." |
