Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-13
. FARM AND GARDEN.


, rill. The Turf, Field ana Farm, in an
article on native sires, says:
Lexington, Vandal, Planet, Uncle Vic,
Lightning, Jack Malone and Daniel
Boone are probably the seven native sircs
which a great majority of turfmen would
award the need of excellence to. Lex
ington and Vandal have been the same
length of time in the stud, while the
others are not far apart in the time which
they commenced their labOrs in this di-
rection. We doubt if ever a horse, at
least in the last forty years, has been the
sire of so many first-Class race horses as
Lexington. In America, his illustrious
great grandsire is the only one which can
be brought into comparison, and to him
is due still higher degree of credit. In
Sir Arcby's days there were but a small
proportion of first-class mares to what
there is now, and the facilities for the
transportation of them for long
distances were limited. Fortunately,
both belonged in the 'Tace-hOrse region,
and both went to the stud with a reputa-
ton which at once brought them plenty to
do. 1t was also fortunate that there
were mares which seemed to nick exactly
with each, and Bedford and Citizen did
for the patriarch of the American turf
what Glencoe and Yorkshire have accom-
plished for Lexington. Sir Charles, Ber-
trand, Pacific, Marion, Rarity, Stock
holder, KosciuskO, Crusader prove the val
ue of the cross with the first, while there
are so many instances of the latter's val
liable combinations, and of such recent
date, that there is no necessity of repeat
ing them. In fact, numerous as the pro-
geny of Lexington and those of first-class
celebrity are, a very great proportion of
them are the results of this cross. 1t is
almost supererogatory to sayaught of Lex
ington, and when We endeaVor to form
list of the most successful native sircs,
and find that, extend it as we may, nearly
all are Of his get, his high position must
be conceded by the most hypercritical.
In the list of winning sires of 1865, he
not only takes the lead with a credit of
eighty races won, TO twenty-fOur of Bon
ME Scotland, eighteen Of Australian,
seventeen of Vandal, etc, etc, but in the
siXty-thrCc, ten are his sons.
While Lexington has got more runners
than any stallion in America, his contcm-
porary, Vandal, has probably got the
most from the number of thoroughbred
mares served, and he certainly ranks
second to 40 horse in the quality of his
progeny. Without the brilliant galaxy
of performers which 1869 has brought to
the fore, he would be entitled to high
renOwn. Noble Jackson, Bowen, Virgil,
James \. Connolly, Alta Vela, and seyc-
raj others, have shown their ability, en-
titling their sire to great credit for their
performances.
In one respect Nlndcl outranks al the
Others save Planet In the seventeen
races won one was lhrec miles, and two
at -four miles; willie Planet is credited
with three at three mile heats, and one at
four mile heats. Vandal has shown his
capacity to get bo,h fast and stout stock
Two of his sons are at the head of the
record for speed, for a mile, while MOllie
JacksOn's three-mile time is at the very
top when the character of the perform
ance is taken into consideration.
Vandal has not only had very limited
number of thoroughbred mares bred to
him, but owing to the best being by his
sire, he was cut off from the opportuni-
ties the others had by this consanguinity.
Still, if he had been favored with York
shire, Sovereign, and more Of the i'm
ported mares, in the proportion which
such a first horse should have OBJ
tanned, he would have taken as high
rank perhaps, as his near relative, Lex
in-ton.
Planet has done well for the length of
time lac has been in the stud, and the
number of his colts which have been
trained; and Uncle Vic, with Victory,
Shutdown and Wiley to represent him,
must be considered a decided success. !
Lightning, with Privatecr Stonewall
jackson and Local, has not suffered the
great reputation of his dam to wane.
Every generation gives further proof of
It's being a running family, which we
have no doubt his brothers will sustain.
Jack Malone could rest his fame on
Muggins, with no fear of being without
a niche in the equine Temple of Fame
He has more of the old native blood
than any we have mentioned, the cross of
SarpedOn, through Alice Carneal, being
the nearest imported STRAIN. 4
grandson of American Eclipse, and
great grandson of Sir Charles, he possesses
the very bluest of the blue blood Of the
olden time.
Those who advocate a decided cross as
the way 20 breed race horses, could he
sure Of getting the old, hard bottomed
strains to mix with that of the latter i'm
peTtations in the son of Gloriana. Few
indeed run back so often and so decidedly
to Sir Archy and his sire Diomed Thus
in the male line Lexington, Boston,
Timolcon, Sir Archy. His dam Gloriana,
Eclipse, Duroc, Doomed, her dam Tride by
Sir Charles, Sir Archv. The next dam 10y
Cicero, by Sir Archy, Cicero's dam by
Doomed
Running back four times to Sir Archy
and TO Diomed, We hardly know of a horse
sthat that has this prcpondcrcnce of
strictly native blood. The term native is
ambiguous at the best, yet we think that
no one will dcnyto the sons of Gloriana
by Lexington the right 10 wCar the title.
CHASING those as foreign which have been
imported and all others native is the only
way of making the distinction