The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-12

| then at Holmdel this time of year,
| brothers and sisters TO Jean Bereaud,
| High Degree and such kind. They do
| not excite more than passing interest.
But this son of Butterflies. or more cor
rectly, The Butterflies, was awaited as
| a royal house will await the coming of
| an heir. This one has an undeniable
| father no less an equine parsonage than
! His Highness.
And that makes a bay colt, f0aled
| April 2. 1899 by His Highness out Of
The Butterflies. the first combination of
| Futurity winners ever registered in the
stud book. If all that breeders of
| horses believe is true: if there is any
thing in selection: in the mating of
| great performers, then this bay one
| that is Just now learning how to be
up in the world on four feet with stag
| gerlng. has q right to be as much of a
| race horse as the best of them. If he
| is not, then there will be all sorts of
arguments against performing dams
| and Dave Gideon and John DAILY will
be disappointed.
This is the first thing which The But
terfles has given to the horse world.
She went into the stud at the close of
her 3-year-old Year Once before she
was mated to His Highness. but slipped
the foal last spring. Again she went
to the horse. with this bay colt result.
. The mare was very carefully tended
during the winter to bring about the
colt, and the reward is here.
There are people who do not think
so much of The Butterflies. but at thai.
she was a good lilly F'illies are not of
the material of which Futurity win
ners are ordinarily made. yet she was
able to break the record of that great
race when she beat all the best colts of
her year. Since then L'Alouette has
crossed the finish line in front in the
same event, making two of the gentler
sex to land the big money. The But
tert1es was handy 3-year-old. too,
| and managed to gather the Gazele
stakes and the Fall handicap TO herself
This His Highness is, of course. a
horse. Better than he are few either
as a race horse or as a sire Jean Be
reaud is alone worth his while in the
breeding barns. and save possibly Han
| over, no young stallion ever turned out
such first year crop as he. His High
ness won the Futurity in 1891 and also
| annexed the Select. Amboy hardicap,
the Great Trial and the First Half of
! the Double Event. He was beaten in
| the Second Half by Viceroy. He was
able in a later season to make a dead
| heat with Raceland. which is of itself
! no mean accomplishment.
| A heritage of speed an Inheritance of
| grand blood lines. are in this yOungster
and he should be a race horse by every
| right of breeding. Should he find his
| way to the sale ring his price will be
| up yOnder out Of sight of most of us, in
the notch along with Berauds brother
In so far as one can judge Of foal,
this one of such distinguished lineage is
"all boss
pullman the California rough rider
| will pilot Brier Sweet in her best East
ern efforts. Ed Purser has Bullman I'M
der contract. but Jennings has Sec1nd
| call on him, and that means rracti-
| cally first call. as Purser will not need
| him frequently. Purser may not bring
| anything at all to the East, and if he
| does ship he will not have more than
three or four horses. Bullman will do
more riding in Jennings colors than he
| will in Purser's.
However, the presence of Bullman
| need not scare anybody. That he can
| ride some is undeniahle, but rough
riders have invariably been poor riders
in the East, and Bullman is hardly of
| the kind to establish a precedent in
| this regard. Purser and Jennings VIII
| leave San Francisco at the same time,
| that is, about the 18th of this month.