Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-16
PROFIT IN BREEDING.
TRsTTING BLOOD THAT PRODUCED
BELL BOY AND STAMBOUL.
Stanford aud Rose Breeding From
Similar Lines-Two Young Stall.
lions Bring $1O1,OO
IN. Y. Spirit of the Times. j

IN. Y. Spirit of the Times.i
There is evidently strife among |
wealthy breeders to neglect nothing in |
the way of breeding and individual merit |
that money will command On the same
day that one breeder was found willing to |
pay S5l, 900 for Bell Boy (2:194 at three
years. another was found willing to pay
$4,000 for Stamboul (2:14a), the reason
why these horses were sought at such
prices mainly consisting in that abiding
faith of the breeding fraternity that the
great horse in great family is Of all 9TH
crs the best reliance upon which to de-
pend for transmitting speed in the future.
This theory has always led to the greatest
success and it is expected that it always
will. As rule it holds good, but it is not
infallible, because sometimes scion of
great family. though great himself, fails to
transmit as the theory implies that he will.
Again, a horse that is seemingly an out
slider may beat in the stud one that is in
accord with the theory, but this does not
necessarily clash with the theory, for the
apparent outsider may be really case in
support of it, If he stands isolated as an
exceptionally good horse in his family it
may be that his family never had a chance,
and that if they had had chance he
would be surrounded by near relatives
equally as great as himself. These excep-
tions are, therefore, nothing against the
validity of the theory.
Take an instance in point: When it was
supposed that Colonel III. S. Russell had
bought Ansel, go, by Electioneer, out of
thoroughbred Annette, by Lexington, the
anti-thoroughbred people all declared that
he was outside OF any Immediate family of
trotters, and therefore not likely to be
successful sire. But it now turns out that
his dam was full sister of Waxy, by Lex
ington, that, being bred TO General Ben
ton, produced fast mare that, being bred
to Electioneer, the sire of Ansel, produced
Sunol, 2:1S, the fastest two-year-old to
date. This shows family likeness in
merit and a tendency of Electioneer to hit
with these sisters by Lexington. Now, if
Ansel proves a successful sire he will be
instanced as proving the theory Of family
prepotency and the tendency of especial
blood lines to nick favorably, but had the
pedigree Of Waxy, granddam of Sunol, not
been discovered, Ansel, if successful, would
have been cited as a case against the
theory. But it turned out that Ansel d;,i.
not fill the requirements of the terms of
purchase, and the sale fell through. Col
onel Russell bought the great three-year
old of last season, Edgemark, 2:11, at the
reported price of $4,000. While this
, dorse has no such immediate family as
Bell Boy, he has, all things considered.
proved himself as good an individual,
since he has won ten races without miss
and took his record of 2:2l early in No
vember, as against Bell Boys 2:19a the
last of December Edgemark is full of
trotting blood, and it is possible that,
under favorable circumstances and op-
portunity, he might have had as
great an array of good brothers and sisters
as Bell Boy. Hence, his success or failure
will be nothing against the soundness of
the theory that the great horse of great
family Is the one to breed to. At all
events, this has swayed the breeding
interest in running stock for the past two
centuries, and is likely to follow in run
ming and trotting stock as long as they are
bred.
While there is no apparent connection
between the great prices obtained for
Stamboul and Bell Boy, yet underneath
the surface there is coincidence regard
ing their breeding that goes to uphold the
theory of the value of family and the
nicking of strains. Stamboul and Bell
Boy are the result of uniting almost ex-
actly the same blood elements in almost
the same proportions. They were
bred by different owners, who were in a
sense rivals. The development of one was
entirely disconnected with the develop
ment of the other Each arose to the
height of popularity that commands his
great price, entirely independent of any
intentional assistance from the other.
Both sgot there" by right of inherited
power and skillful development When
we analyze the inheritance we find that
Bell Boy is a grandson of Rysdyk's Ham
bletonian, through his son Electioneer,
that in some respects is the
greatest of his great array of
sons. Stamboul is also a grandson of
Rysdyks Hambletonian, through his
daughter Fleetwing, that as a producer
was the greatest Of his daughters, consid-
ering the merits of the only three foals
she lived to produce. Bell Boy got the
Clay blood through the dam of Elec-
tioneer, and Stamboul got it through the
dam of Fleetwing. Bell Boy is grand
son of that remarkable sire, The Moor,
through his greatest producing daughter,
Beautiful Bells, 2293 Stamboui is a
grandson of The Moor through his greatest
son, Sultan, 2:24, who, as a sire, has
larger representation in the 2:30 list than
any sire ever accomplished at like age.
There is one other great element in Bell
Boy that is mine of power, and that is
Minnehaha, the dam of Beautiful Bells.
She produced four extra good trotters. She
united the blood of Mambrino Chief and
Cassius NJ. Clay. Now, singularIy enough,
Stamboul gets an equal amount of Nam
brine Chief through he dam of
Sultan, and the only deviation here is
that he has remote line of Hambletonian
in place of the additional Clay strain in
Bell Boy. Thus it appears that the blood
elements that created the two great horses
that sold for such high prices were almost
exactly the same, and though their order
in the two pedigrees is reversed, the pro-
portion Of any given strain is almost ex-
actly the same in both. Each horse in his
way stands out conspicuously as an individ-
ual. Bell Boy was bred by Senator STAN
ford and the other by L. J. Rose, both of
California. Mr.. Rose should also have
credit to certain extent in the produc-
ton of Bell Boy, for he bred his dam,
Beautiful Bells, and gave her her record,
and he now has at the head of his stud
almost her counterpart in blood in Alca-
Ear (2:20l at five years., that is his beau
ideal of all the horses he ever had. He is
by Sultan, out of Minnehaha, the dam of
Beautiful Bells.
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