The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-04
OUR SOUTHERN FLYERS
Glimpse at Southern California
Breeding Farms
SANTA ANITA YOUNGSTERS
Mr.. Baldwin's Preparations for the
Eastern Campaign
Some Reasons Why Our hid Climate Is q
Factor in Producing the Best
Horses
BY HrpALGo

Exclusive of the value of the land de-
voted to their production, the county of
Los Angeles has over $500, 900 invested in
the production and development OF
thoroughbred horses. In 1852 there was
only one thoroughbred stallion in the
state, a horse brought here from Austria
liza, named Chloroform. He was by an
English stallion called Aether, that ran a
dead heat for the Grand Duke Michael
stakes at Newmarket in 1889 with Euclid,
who also ran dead heat for the st. Leger
OF that same year with Charles XII,
owned by Major Yarbrough of the Horse
Guards. Chloroform figures in the pedi-
grees of some fast trotters in this state
and was known to the early settlers as
"Poche Bayo' from having his tail
banged in the English fashion.
Only six states of the Union produce
any thoroughbred horses worthy of men
tion-California, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Virginia, New York and New Jersey.
From the early settlement of the colonies
Virginia led up to about 1928, when New
York and New Jersey began to rival her (;
and, about 1889, Kentucky began to come
to the front and has ever since main
tanned the supremacy. But when we
take into consideration the fact that four
counties of that state-Fayette, Woodford,
Scott and Bourbon-pay taxes on a
greater valuation of thoroughbred horses
| than the three states of California, New
York and Virginia combined and that
there are five thoroughbred colts or fllies
foaled in Kentucky to one in California,
| that supremacy ceases to be source of
alarm. California has been overhauling
| her very fast in ten wears.
And now comes the Querulous reader and
asks what is thoroughbred horse? 1t once
took me forty minutes to answer this
question to the satisfaction of the late
Judge Samuel Dwinelle and Colonel j. p.
Hoge, but l will endeavor to be more
brief in the present instance. A thor
| oughbred horse is one bred from Oriental
progenitors on either side, the founda-
ton being imported into England during
the reign of the Stuarts, either from
most noted of these are the Godolphin
Arabian, whom the benevolent Earl of
Godolphin rescued from brutal master
in the streets of Paris; the barley Ara
bian, imported by Mr.. barley of York
shire in 1902; and the Byery Turk, who
in Ireland in 1889. The male lines of all
the other Oriental horses are now ex-
there were in all 1862 stations i'm
ported into England, first and last, of
which there were 81 Arabians, Al Barbs.
80 Turks and Persians. Charles ii i'm
proved upon the work OF Charles | and
Queen Anne by importing large num-
Der of mares from Arabia and Morocco,
| which are for that reason known as Roy
al mares.' Therefore be it known that
every thoroughbred racehorse in the
world traces to one of three stations in
| his or her male line: Eclipse, who repre-
sents the male line of the barley Arabian;
Herod, representing the male line of the
| Byerly Turk and Matchem. that of the
Godolphin Arabian. The blood of the
latter carries the most bone and substance
of any, but is rarely met with, no living
horse having over per cent of his blood.
/ subjected the pedigree of Eclipse to a
severe scrutiny one day last week and
| found that though he came from the
barley Arabians male line he has II per
cent of Godolphin blood, as against 1-2
of barley, his lineal ancestor
| Matchem was the elder of the three, hav-
ing been foaled in 174S. He won all but
two of his seventeen races, mostly at
heats of three and four miles, He lived
to great age and got 1854 winners, whose
united winnings were trifie over 152, 900
pounds. Herod was bred BY the Duke
of Cumberland in 1853 and sold as a year
ling to Sir John Moore the hero of
Corunna. He won about 60 per cent of
his races and on his retirement to the
stud got 497 winners of the great sum of
2O3, $50 pounds. Eclipse was the youngest
of the world famous trio, and was also
bred by the Duke of Cum berland. At his
death the famous chestnut colt became
the property of the famous gambler,
O'Kelly, winning twenty-one consecutive
| races, including eleven Kings Plates at
three and four miles, without a single de-
feat. OKelly bet 1000 pounds that he
would place the horses'in one of these
| fhA IF Il tc
wager, said: Eclipse tirst-the rest no.
| where Eclipse went on and distanced
his field in the first heat, so O'Kelly won
| his wager.
In the first generation the Herods made
| by far the best showing of winners, as
already above given, but the superiority
of the male line of Eclipse became APP
parent aftertthe third geneiation. 1t is
! true that'he was the younger horse of the
| great trio and got many of his best win
! ners from mares of the Herod blood,
whose dams, in turn, were by Matchem.
But the male descendants of Herod did
not do as well on the Eclipse mares
Herod got HighHyer, whose progeny won
the Derby three times, the Oaks and the
St. Leger three times. Highfyer got Sir
Peter, whose get won four Derbys, two
Oaks and four st. Legers. After that gen.
male line has been dropping slowly be-
hind that of Eclipse, while the Matchem
male line is so far in the rear that it is
now only deemed valuable as all oItcross,
| in addition to being the best line for
| bone.
Since 1850 the Eclipse line has won the
Two Thousand Guineas % times; the One
Thousand for FLIES only, 35 times; the
Derby, 80; the Oaks, for FLIES only, 81
and the st. Leger, 30 times. All these
races are for three-y ear-olds and the only
two great ones of the Matchem line that
have shown up in all that long period Of
as years, are West Australian in 1853
and Black Bonny in 1857 The West was
4 the first horse that ever won the Derby,
i Two Thousand and st. Leger, all three:
| 1t has since been done six times. And
having now explained the relation OF the
| three great cardinal lines to one another
and told the reader what is a thorough
bred horse, | will proceed to give the
distribution of those three families since
the settlement of the state.
i ECLIPSE HERoD. MtTcHEM
Belmont @Chloroform Wlldidle
| TNAna Sahib Hercules Leinster
| lodi -. lack Hawkins 10 Daniels .
! Cosmo Bulwer Rutherford
Lawyer. The Norfolk yDareoin
Sid tsir Madrid
Three Cheers fCheviot
| st. Paul Monday
chesterfield Hook Hooking III VIII thele-
| GTovelist Foster fore be seen
| %Ciieveden George wilkes that. while He
| ( ;riphton Luther rod and Eclipse
&Marriwa NSuwarrow horses brough t
NTrade Wind NPlenty into this state
fVater Cress Nrhe Hook were nearly