The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-08
'T|M0LEON, SIRE
. Of GREAT BOSTON
Son Of Sir Archy Considered
by Students the Best
Of the Best.
NEVER FAIRLY BEATEN
EXCEPT BY REALITY
Bred at Greenville, Va, the Grand
Racer Was a Giant in His
Day; Not So Tall, But
Magnificently Pro- 4
portioned and
Musc1ed.
ny rHoMAs NELSON c.nrNR.

BY THOMAS NELSON CanTI:R.
Timoleon. tho son ofg strs A2chy and
the sire OF Boston! To have been the
son of the greatest sire and the sire OF
the greatest horse this country has 1
produced would alone be sufficient to
place Tnoleon high on the roll OF
honor, but when we add to this his \
own brilliant performances on the TURF
and In the stud, 1t is hard to escape
the conclusion that he was, as many /
thought him, 1.-THE best OF the best"
Among so many great sons and daugll-.
ters OF Sir Archy. however, 1t is hard |.
to say which was best There were /
Lady Lightfoot. who ran between /.
but one, except in her old age. and
that to American Eclipse; virginians
Carolinian. Flirtilla, Sir Charles-all
cracks in their day; Henry, who
ran the match with Eclipse, and should
have won; Virginia Taylor, Gohanna.
Roanoke. Bertrand. the great sire and
racer OF South Carolina: Vanity and
Reality. own sisters. the latter OF whpm
beat Timoleon tn only time he. was
fairly beaten; Director, from whom
come so many OF our finest trotters OF
to-day; Rather and whole host OF
others, for, as writer quantity says.
| 1t Is conjectured that his progeny IS
more numerous than that of any living
animal" That they were good onesi Is
borne out by the fact that two-thirds
of the racing cards OF those days were
| occupied by Sir Arches.
Timoleon was foaled in 1913. and
was bred by Mr.. Benjamin Jones. OF
Greenvife Va. A.e was chestnut
with n small star in his forehead. stood
| fifteen hands three inches. or ls hands
high, and was a horse of magnificent
appearance. being one OF those Won
derfully symmetrical horses whose ap-
/ pearance gives no correct idea of his.
real size. He was big, big In every
way, and yet appeared only OF medium
si-,. Els portrait represents an almost
| perfect horse, and the descriptions
4 given OF him bear out the truthfulness
1 Of the portrait. The American Turf
| Register has record of twenty-five
4 measurements taken from Timoleon.
and compared with ans equal number
ta-:en from Leviathan-a very large
| horse and almost In every case those
4 of the former exceed sthoDs - the lat-
4 ter. 1t Is fair to say. hevUS0n that
/ ...ere Is evidently something wrong
about these measurements for exam
i pie, Timoleon's height at thu wfthers
4 hands inches and SO 1-s inches. or
\ over II hands 1 inch, at his rusnp,
while his head Is measured at 1-3,
or 4 inches bigger than that OF Ameri-
4 can Eclipse, WHO had an uncommonly
i big head himself. A horse of such
dimensions would be almost mon
4 strosity. II however. we discard these
evident mistakes, they show him .
horse of wonderful condemnation
such conformatio as is necessary To-
s. /. great winners, II not the race
for they do race In all forms It does
{. seem to me that our thoroughbreds had:
more bone and substance hack In the
u old days, when re were nearer the
parent or English stock. Certainly 20
would expect this to be true. as the
i English horse as class, most GER
\ tainly has more substance than the
i American.
That little island has an abundance
iof grass. which is green and succulent,
Hall summer. even in what they, call
.j.their Density dry" weather. The at
|tention given horses is more intelli-S
gent and better than ours. 1t being
slgiven by white labor, with an inherited
Hove OF the horse. The climate is less
subject to change and less given to
extremes OF heat and cold. and II there
are any. flies In England they are kept
4 out Of sight. / have never seen one
there, although all OF my visits have.
been In summer. III
In 1905 I had the good fortune to-
see, at Elton Hail, eighteen out OF the
. string OF hunters, which. I understood
numbered forty used by the young
; duke and Duchess of Westminster.
| They were not on exhibition to the
: public, but by u little persistency and
ilpleadlng that was an American fond
, lof horses, together with n tip or two.
!, !. lI had the luck of being taken around
,si.by the manager of the whole stable,
} lwho did it in the most pleasant manner
! lpossible. First, he showed me four of
1.-THE dukes hunters, standing together
In one stable. surely they are mt
!, hunters" said I. They were as big,
and, to my eye, ms coarse s cart horses.
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