Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-17

| 1872, LA. thTce-quarter mile heats IN 1:1JT,
/ 1:1fjI: the Del Paso stakes, three-quarter-
mile heats. IN l;lG, li5, .1:1bk, Adelne
winning second heat He died in 1888 hut
I was horse II very great speed and stami-
M, which It IL easy 10 account for. His
sire. Monday. was also the progenitOr Of
/ the famous mare, MollIe McCartv. and was
I by Cotton (sOn Of Lexington and Topaz.
I 10y Glencoe). dam Moliie Jackson, by Van
I dal. who produced Fanny Ludlow, By mp.
Eclipse. grandam Of f0xhal. The fame
OF Enquirer - too well known 90 need
comment, both "a n race-horso and sire,
and his breeding il the choicest. being
/ bv bennington ont of Ida. by Lexington,
while back of tho Joe 5t0ner cross we fad
I the famous Washington family, which pro-
/ duced Lolus. one IF the greatest Of living
sjres. George Oyster traces TO the same
mare Directress, through her son Gazan
I (bv Sin Lesliei sire Of Sue Hartley,
/ erandam Of Amanda Warren, by Marion,
/ his dam. His sire ~ Vsitigeur. by Nandai
. lbest son of Glencoe, dam Duet, by High
lander son 81 GleIcocl, and tracing TO ne
famous mare Gamma. by Pacific. Marian
was ~ Lexington out OF Miriam, by Glen
cOe from the famous Minerva Anderson
family, while Fanny King dam Of Amanda
I Warren was by Bic Boston (son Of Boston
and Traubyana. by imp. Iranbyl.
George Oyster was one OF the best two
year-olds that appeared in 1881, and went
/ into the Nursery stable at q long figure.
lie won three fOurths vita / Is pounds IN
l 1.16, beating King Crab. Leo r., and others:
/ the Laurel Stakes, three fOurths. in 1875,
( beating Los Angeles Emperor of Norfolk,
/ Badge. GailIfct. and others; the Maple
Stakes, three fourths, in l:l6, carrying ~
pounds, including a penalty of 3 pounds,
al NJ Brooklyn. At jerome Park won
handicap for twO-year-olds. carving l2l. IN
/ f.f7A and beat a good field. A. three
year old. at Monmouth Park. be- won the
| Choice Stakes, one and half mlics, IN
2.42, on a heavy track. aud beat SIT DIXON
and Iaragon among others.
"Iarchmont by Longfcllow. dam May
Day, by imp. Bucsden: "a dam NV Eye by
Lee Paul. out Of Mrs. Stoner, by Joe
StOncr, is also descendant OF Dlrcciress
through same channel as Grover Cleveland
and George Oyster, but this side Of Direc-
tress we find some of the most potent
blood known IN racing annals. LOngtell0w
| is deservedly one Of the most popular sire5
living or dead. Lee Paul was by Lexing
ton, dam Anna c.. dam Of Lady Motley.
by imp. Glencoe, ont Of Polly c., Dy Nag-
uor. Larchmont. Ike most Of the Long
fellows. was unsuccessful ms twO-year-old,
but in his 'three-year- form won toe
Falcon stakes, BrOOkwOOd handicap, ia
miles in 300 beating among Others lara
gon. Tea Tray. and other good racers.
"Othor lesser lights with the Potomac
faint are Allanoke, Biddy Bowling,
Bluc Day, Dudley Oaks Gn whose veins
there IS a double infusion Of Potomac
blood. one through his sire, Nathan Oaks,
a descendant through Sallie, by Lexlng-
ton. of Jenny COckracy, the other through
his dam. Carrie p, by imp. Billet, ont OF
Miss Foot by Gazan, 60 Drectress; ONO
Boy, Shamrock, Nelcher, and Skooeloh.
''Ihe Jenny Cockracy, DireCtress. and
l.
strains wherein the Potomac cross exists
that have produced, and are continuing TO
produce. noteworthy turf performers.
Il have stated above that Jenny Cock
racys dam was the dam also Of IlmOleon
and Betsy Haxhall. Her sire. imp. Sal
tram was by English Eclipse, ont of Vi
rago. by SNAP. aud tracing back TO
dArcy's black-legged Royal mare. Tho
dam Of the Saluam mare was by
Svme's Wildair (son Of imp. Fearuaught,
hy Regulus, one ol the most DISTINGUISHED
and best bred Of the early imported
-iros): "a dam by Driver: Sd dam by imp.
Failower (son Of Blank, out OF Partner
mare. and tracing through Bloody But
tocks 70 the famous LAYTON Barb Mare);
18th dam by imp. Vampire lson OF Beeulus,
out OF the dam of imp. Mlldalr. by Steady.
From this it Will be seen that the dam OF
Jenny Cockracy was hne combination OF
the most merItOriOus blood of England.
and it il not surprising that through LIMO
leon (son Of Sir Archy, by imp. Dlomed),
we have Boston, the best Iace-hOrse OF his
day. and from his loins Lexington, the
peer Of any stallion that ever. lived, not
only as a race-horse himself, but as the
sire Of great raCe-horses and producing
mares.
The dam of Directress was, as stated,
bv Potomac: second dam 10y Gimcrack
lRandolph's roam, by imp. Medley;
third dam imp. FlImnap lby South, out
of mare by Cygnet), tracing 10 tho
Massey mare by Massey's Black Barb-al
stout racing blood.
Il nave shown that from the families
mentioned above some of our best race
horses have descended, and feel warrant
cd from the facts in asserting that the Po-
tomac cross IN them is" mot emineHIyln III
iurous" 10 the breed of American race
hOrsC5l.
The concluding words in brackets are
nv own. have stricken from the valua-
BILE text of this hichly-intellgent writer
those passages in which he endeavOrs 70
strip the great Potomac of his due share OF
credit for the rare excellence of the celebri-
ties enumeratcdas his offspring, and insists
that their high merit came to them IN spite
of the Potomac cross.
WHAT raK CANT CHICKEN SAID OF Mr.. TooTs.
To deny that Potomac produced approved
runners, and when hundreds Of them are
named in refutatlOn, then TO claim all the
merit for their dams, Is in physiological
sense. silly in the extreme; and - unwor-
thy of a true turfman. Mlsmatlng may
turn out accidentally well in isolated IN
stances. hut when good offspring result as
q rule i'm hundreds of instances from par
ticular cross, then cavil and calumny must
hold their tongues. l view this species OF
detraction, in the case OF Potomac,
as that celebrated bCXing-master. the
Game Chicken, viewed the conduct OF Mr..
rOOts 10 refusing 10 carry on Florence
Dombey by main force: ITS mean. you
know it's mean."
Trebor does not pretend that the list he
gives Of the brilliant descendants OF PotO-
mac, resulting from his short life III the
Kentucky stud. is complete. l cannot now
undertake to fill mp the list. VIII men
ton only one Omisslon-na namely, Donerall.
son of Lexington. out Of Crisis, daughter
of Susette, daughter Of Jenny Cockracy;
and the fine blOOds that have descended
from him, not the least OF whom was
Pimhco.
Upon Trebor's showing of the good ser
vice which Potomac did in his few years
of old age in Kentucky Is it unrea-
sonable TO claim that If be had re-
NAMED IN Virginia or had been
IN Kentucky during the ten OF mpte
wears he was in apogee IN Georgia, tnat
his renown as a sire would have been but
little less brilliant than that Of Sir Archy,
OF Sir Charles. or TimoleOn. or Boston, or
even than Of his double kinsman, Lexing-
ton:
Most of his early offspring had their
years of turf life before the war of 1872,
when there were no systematic records.
and when we can only hear Of them from
such casual recitals as that of the British
officer IN Long Island. Had We such re-
cords of that period AS we havo had since
1899 there would be no difficulty in show,
ing that his early offspring Were endowed
with as high racing qualities rs Trebor has
shown 20 be possessed by ms descendants
of our own day.
Ihave now performed a duty long contem-
plated. but under the spell of Cls inertia,
long delayed. / have felt II 70 be due to
Virginia that one of the noblest horses
she ever produced should be ylndIcated
from forgery that has obtained credence
abroad which has never been accorded TO
II here. have felt that it was iutolerable
that the owners of the offspring OF one OF
tIf ,r.r4..rt . .,os 10 tf,vf HtafQry Chpulf fo