New-York tribune., 1895-08-26
4 WELL-EARNED VICTORY.
REQUITAL'S WINNING OF THE FUTURITY.
A RACEHoRsE WITH ARIsTocRArIc ANCESTORS
SOME POINTS ABOUT HIS PEDIGREE
r1lp 1nNGEr RACES

A RACEHoRsE WITH ARIsTocRAr1c ANCESTORS
SOME POINTS ABOUT HIS PEDIGREE
FOR LONGER RACES
Horsemen and racegoers generally conceds that
the Futuriiy was a truc-run race. and there Is no
excuse for any OF the defeated horses All errors OF
Judgment in training. the Illness OF any Of the con-
testants and the hundreds OF excuses that owners
and trainers always keep on hand for emergencies
should not be considered. Al the honors rightly be-
long Hyland and ReGuita combination that
made it possible for the jockey Griffin to over
shadow the other Jockeys who rode in the race. To
be sure. Crescendo .an an extremely brilliant race.
and IS Of the gran1est-2ppe youngsters
that have raced since More.lo won the Fuiu.ity
laurels Colonel j. Nagioe Burke. the owner of
Crescenlo notwithstanding Crescenios recent FL
ness makes no excuses for his colt so that there
should be no excuses for any OF the other defeated
youngsters that start ed In the Futurity. Requ!tlrs
victory was impressive that many OF the Eo1sc-
men ask: Where does 1t come in that a horse brei
Ike Rcquital should win tho Futurlty?' The qucs-
tlon sets the pedigree experts tongues to wagzlng
and that invariably leads up to a heated battle
OF words.
Some Of the men who for years have Influenced
the action of wealthy turf,nen in tpe purchase Of
horses for breeding purposes insist that the victory
OF Requital was a luke both In breeding and on
the track In breeding as in racing, results a.one
count with the public. matter what theorists may
say about Inc matter. The secret OF success In
sire or dam Is the amount Of nervous energy either
ore hoth of them can transmit TO their progeny.
If IT is nervous energy that makes great race
horse the place TO look for 1t Is In the families cf
great racehorscs This does not mean that every
angular slah-sided nl-shapel animal from such
families or strains OF blood produce
winners 1t docs mean that the leading members
OF such families have proved their right TO he
considered racehorses by the inexornble test OF
the winning post are the horses to breed to. when
cI xtifh he arro
qualifications Eothen was a Withers experiment.
lust as many OF the bes; horses bred at BrooSia.e
were when Mr.. With 'rs held sway and was In the
flesh Horscmcn and breeders should revere the
memory of David Dunham N!thers. who by his per-
sistent devotion &, the Bricatchcr blood in sires
ard his rsspect FOR the Glencoe blood in natroas.
has given 10 the American turf n class of mares
that possess the nervous energy to remarkable
degree.
A GLANCE AT REQUITALS PEDIGREE.
A single glance at Requitals pedigree will show
that he is one Of the strongest inbred horses In
the world on both the slres and dams sides the
blood lines descend from the same fountain head
1t was for this reason that David Dunham Withers
purchased Eothen.
some Of the pedigree experts may doubt this
statement because sIr Wthers did not consult
with them abol. the matter. David Dunham Wiihers
said in the presence Of the writer AMI John Mack
ev. who manages James B. Hagginss enormous
breeding establishment at Rancho Del Paso: Il
have made some mistakes but they are mine. The
mares at Brookdale and the sires for that matter,
are not desirable mates. their produce are hot
headed What We require in this country Is some
Hampton horses and some Hampton mares which
will mix with almos; any American bred horse
or mare and balance their produce by giving them
a level head.
Mr. Mackey asked: What sort of breeding would
YOU select on the dams side for your Hampton
colt"
Mr. Withers threw away his cigar and replied:
On the same lines as CialopIn and the best horses
IN England to-day
Mr.. Witners turned on his heel and walked away.
Mr Mackey said: There is something for moth
ms It has taken Mr.. Withe-s twenty years to find
that out | viii get a Hampton horse soon az
possible"
Eothen was the result Of Mr.. Withers's twenty
years lesson and Requitai is the proof OF his ioeic
Eothen never raced: he might have been a failure II
he had. He comes. however from the fountain head
of wel.-balanced nervous energy. and when his
blood was joined other lines Of bC)d from the
same source, the produce caused the deadweghts
called pedigree experts to become as hysterca as
a bashful schoolgirl. John Nackoy's Hampton IS the
colt star Ruby. by Hampton out Of Ornament
which IS being trained and raced by Green b. Nor
rs. Ornament is closely related to Ormonde.
THE RESULT OF LONG STUDY.
From the foregoing it Will be readily that
Regulars breeding Is the result OF long ana care
ful study by Mr.. Wthers who worked out by prac-
tca methods some of the most difficult problems in
breeding Some ~ tho most important solutions
accidental, but breeding his hobby and the
results obtained by riding it made him believe in
the nervous-cnergy theory which results have gone
far to prove.
Now of the shrewd who know the
game vii; cry out that Eothen did rot go through
the test Of racing a single glance at his pedigree
will show that he did. Moreover. his conformation
perfect and his dis position was excellent. He
was terribly battered and knocked about on the
voyage across the Atlantic The fact that he lived
through the experiences he received proves con-
cusively that he thoroughly game and pos
sesses a remarkable constitution.
Requitals pedigree should furnish many hours Of
pleasant study 10 breeders. II is a mine OF rich
ness and there Is not acing family in the Stud
Book that is not represented in this inbred racer
from the soutest Irish and English strains. The
pedigree follows: