The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF TURFMEN
AROUND THE CALIFORNIA TRACKS.
Modesty Is a Royalty Bred Mare-Santa Anita Ranch Needs q New
Slre-St. Louis Bookmakers "Welch"-Charley 3oots's New
NtaiEon-Starter Hoffman Lectures Jockey Tommy Burns
General Turf News From the Pacific Coast.

specla! Correspondence Of The suntay Republic
san Francisco, Cal, Dec. 7.-Whcn Ed
Sofrig@n recently transferred MS brood,
mares from sacramento IT. Kentucky nt
was obIlEed Ia leave in California the once
qnSeLl OF the American turf, dOdesty
xtsi.si THIS mare had the honor OF being
me first winner Of the American Derby.
That was IN lSi. when the gates of the
oea.iifU! course. situated right IL the heart
OF Chicago, were first thrown open 70 an
enthusiastic public. And what 4 great
racer Niodesry was! wei remember see
q Golden Rod. and like most # the War
Dances an. good wine, with age there
came Improvement Ii memory Sc. yes. she
won MY races before Mr.. Corrigan retired
ler from the turf. At tn. stud she was
equally as good a% upon the track. and as
The mother Of JuElus. Daisy r, the Cal!for-
winner OF over Sl-.goy this season, she was
mae mac famous in another way.
me late James y. GElHstead. q Ken
tunes at the racing game, used Ia own
VA Dance. while the dam. Ballet. a good
TsCT mare and the mother Of Blue G.a>s
Be.!e. Ealaucsr. Peg Wellington and &. her
vs:'gf!i 5, was also owned Ivy NJ. Grin
sead. bat bred at Ashland, the home of
ne great statesman. Henry Clay.
ROYALTY BRED WAS MODESTY.
:Eut {" come back TO Modes,y and her
Ilesst9fs The mare was bred on lines
IHai sh1hld nave given us Il champion
racer. Her sire. War Dance. was by Lex
lnEtnn. tie best rae. horse Of his time and
tie best sire of race horses ever bred in
America Lexington Was by Boston. Il turf
champion. that won forty out of iorty-iiva
sHcgS ne engaged in. thirty OF them At
olce Of "Old White Nose"l He raced until
Hs was ; years Old. and vas u.ajen uut
about twice up TO that tine. linen. after
ihdh!aE ! big season in tbs : u. asd APP
FTdflliS 10 be sound. Boston WAS t4ken Up
aild trained again, won once ur tw.cc. ana.
uke old John L. Sullivan. he fought once
oE LHstt TOO often Tnr E.EESnr. n u-.l
daughter OF imp. Trustee. TOOK the meas
HTe OF the ancient champion in the memoir
able match OF the North aEains: the South,
IN IA. IN the fastest run race on record M,
70. that period. one OF the fOur-m.le heats
being 81 And Boston. like Sullivan, had
travelled all over the country, mest:r all
corners. and for years his owner. who lived
JUST out "t Richmond. Va, had a standing
oher to run Hoston against any horse in
me world in "A fOUr-mi!e heat race, tn.
stakes 10 he any sum from SJJ,lI0 10 si5a. 900.
VAS A REAL CHAMPION.
boston vas By Tmo.eon. a champion race
morse; whiie the dam OF the graf horss
was by Balls Flor,zel. Of whom il was
saia, He never lost a heat or paid a for
ieit or knew the touch of whip or spur
Ilmoleon's sire was Sir .Archy, the best
American racer and sire of his generation,
|hie SIR Archy,s sire was imp. Joined.
was brought TO this country when % years
OF age and who died when 20 with the best
stud reputation of any horse in the world.
mus, from War Dance 10 the first English
1)e,hy winner. six generations. one finds
n.3tntng but racing and stud success on the
5bn OF @I M.aSsly,s Srs and Modesty was
On the dams side of the house Modestv
carne Just rs honestly by her excellence.
balloon Ghe dam OF Ballet. by imp. York
Shlfe. was the most remarkable racer of
her sex in this great country. At n Ley
lngtcu meeting Din 1851. | think It wasD.
IN" made in one week an unprecedented
record by winning at mile heats. two-mila
meats and tnrcp-rl le heats. a; the stud
Balloon WAS likewise great" for she gave
10 TEa world tho c.i.H-.-aI -G--- ID
"u". alter winning many phenomenal races.
was brought 10 California to contest against
mad stevens, Joe Danie,s and Mamie Hall
Tor a $1i.yJ stake at four-mile heats over
the old Ocean House track tnow but a
m"moryl, in 1873. Another of Balloons
1eals was The Banshee. a famous racer
of the '7Gs. and the mother of Apache a
Socd sire in this State; Of Krupp Gum.
BriRand Belle, Emma E. Mount Olive and
from Balloon. and she gave us Ban Cloche.
2iontta Hardy. S ster Geneva, badge MIN.
1ue Ekins, dam; and the Realization win
ner; Bright PhOebus. now owned by Walter
3 Hobart and said to be as sound as a
dollar a. ? years Of age.
HERALDF 4 FINE PRODUCER:
tieraldy. the third dam of Modesty. n
celebrattd race mare in her day. was by
IMP Herald; a grand performer by the
produced. besides Balloon. a winner in
Parachute. little inferior to Balloon. be-
fis sale 4.he Of the Ealleyi dam Of Sally
was by the Derby-wlnner imp. Priam.
Margaret Woods was the mother of the
celebrities Wade Hampton. Star Davis.
captain Travis. Annie Travis and Georgia
WOOD. all either noted winners. sires or
producers of winners. Maria West ny
Marion. the 9th dam OF Modesty. was
the mother of Wagner and ChiIde Harold
and Wagner was defeated hut once du ing
his long turf career and won $4,000. when
that amount seemed stupendous. And SO
the pedigree continues on, rich In stake
winners and sires and dams with word
wid" regulations. all going TO show that
Nodesty was bred to be Just what she
was-the best race mare OF her time. And
some day breeders viii awaken to the fact
that there Is much In the Old aging, You
cannot make q silk purse out of a sow's
ear They might also come to see that
the way to breed a real champion Is to
have the blood OF nothing but champions
on both sides of the house for MAN. gen.
erations.the more the better. as in the
case OF Modesty. first winner OF the Amer
can Derby, who is destined to die far away
from the bluegrass land where she first
saw the light. far from the people who
thrill through and through when thoughts
of her grand achievements come to mind.
The strings Of Charles c. McCafferty.
Charles Wilson and Ira Fitzgerald are due