The herald., 1893-01-29

till within about 200 yards of the post,
when he shot out and won in canter
BY six lengths. The CONSERVATION OF
the ring was unspeakable and the Irish
were frantic with glee. One of the Dub
lin papers alluded to him as "Our latter
day Harkaway." He won the Epson
cup with 1856, the great Northumberland
stakes with 130, besides beating a choice
field three miles at Royal ACCT"
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He then retired to the stud as the
property Of Lady Stamford. To judge
from bis picture, which hangs in Mr..
Clibboan's Office in Sydney, N. s. W., he
was horse of vast size and substance,
but very little quality. His conforma-
ton was plainly that of his illustrious
progenitor, Melbourne. His book was
always full at $1,000 per mare, and he
proved q fortune to Lady Stamford.
Among his get were Morton, always
reckoned the best OF his year; Mimi,
winner Of the Oaks and 1000 guineas;
Bartizan, Primrose Dame, Barmecide,
Curfew, Bar le Due, Dame President,
Barracuda, Lady Glare, Freemason,
Mercy, etc. Two years ago Lady Stam-
ford refused an offer from India OF
10000 guineas for the horse, and it is
stated that several larger offers have
since been made.
About six weeks ago I got letter
from Mr.. Pierre Lorillard of New York
asking my opinion about the purchase
of first.class stallion. Knowing that
the former owner of Iroquois bad about
six millions of people, in China and
Australia, chewing tobacco for him
while he was asleep, and that money
was therefore no object, / wrote him
back that Abercorn, owned by the es-
tate OF the Hon. James White, deceased,
of Sydney, N. S. W., was my own
preference over ANY horse in the world;
that by the terms OF MIR. Whites will,
the horse Gas well as his eire, Chester,
since dead), was not to be offered for
sale; and that l believed that an offer,of
100000 would fetch him in spite OF the
will. Mr.. Lorillsrd, knowing little or
nothing about the horses OF the south
continent as compared with those OF
England. concluded to buy Barcaldine
and cabled an offer of el2,000 for
him, which was declined. Two
weeks after that message the great
horse died as above stated. Mr. Loril-
lard can now make an offer for Abercorp
if he sees fit. He is 16 hands l inch high,
girts feet inches. and is just as much
handsomer horse than Barcaldine as Sir
Modred is handsomer than Darebin, who
is, by the way, bred very much like Bar
caldine. The old scribe charges the
tobacco millionaire nothing for this ad-
vice.
Eight horses have trotted in 200 or
better, of which five made their records
in 1892. Four out of the eight made
their records on regulation tracks, aid
the other four on kites. Those which
made their record to old. fashioned sui
kies, with big wheels, were Palo Alto
(dead), Sunol and Maud 5. The other
five, which had the benefit of the pneu-
matic-tired sulky, are: Nancy Hanks,
Stamboul, Kremlin, Martha Wilkes and
Belle Vara. There can be but little
doubt that, on kite-shaped track and
with bicycle sulky, Maud s. could
have trotted in 2 2:04 or better. And if it
we're possible to recall the days that are
past and place on track the only three
stations that have beaten 2:09, should
wager my money fret on Palo Alto and
what WAS left l would play against
heat under 2:l1.
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The 212 list has now been swollen to
greater proportions than the 2:30 list
had in 1858, there being SO horses in
that mark or better, OF which 10 are by
George Wilkes sons, while four are also
grandsons of Hambletonian through
EIectioneer and two through the line of
Happy Medium. All the other sires
have but one each. Ii anything else
was wanting to confirm the high esteem
in which the Wilkes blood ia held by
breeders, this ought to settle it. In all
there are 2S in the male line OF Rysdyk's
Hambletonian 10, while three others
are descended from the female line of
the ''Hero of Chester" The old sway
back bears the came relation to the
trotting stud of America that Waxy,
who won the Derby of 1893, does to the
racing blood of England. The three
galloping lines of Touchstone, Hsrk-
away and Irish Birdcatcher are very
neatly paralleled by George Wilkes,
Electioneer and Happy Medium at the
diagonal gait. The Hon. James White
of Sydney once said to the writer: "We
breed great performers every year, but
we only breed great sires once or twice
in century" HIDALGo.