The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-11-14

ington, KY, and who ranks among
the foremost authorities OF any coun-
| try on blood lines and the breedinS
! OF thoroughbreds, offers some inter-
esting comments on SOtemia, winner
of the Endurance Stakes at Louisville
Ky. The polished Virginian has al
ways been a staunch patron of Amer-
lean blood and the following letter
clipped from the Thoroughbred Rec
ord. of Lexington. KY. will doubt
less prove most agreeable reading:
Il have recently witnessed at Louis
Vile the greatest race ever won in the
history OF the world-four miles in
7:1O 4-5-by the chestnut mare Sote-
mia, owned by Mrs. l. a. Livingston
owner of RancOcas Farm, Jobstown.
n. J. The mare won with her ears
pricked and could have run faster il
required. She was not in the least IA
tigued and hardly drew a long breath.
MIS- Livingston was not here. but her
trainer, Matthew Feakes, said she told
him 20 come down and bring her back
the gold cup the Racing Commission
ohered. which he accordingly did. The
mare is of American breeding on both
sides. Her sire is by Onondaga and
her dam Saarg. is daughter of Blue
Grass Belle
'SOtemia. by Locahtchee (by Onon-
daga), out of Saarg. by Rayon dor.
I'd dam Blue Grass Belle. by War
L L
There is not a more American mare
in America. and she goes to the un-
recognized (by the English Stud Book
line OF Maria West, from which her
grandam Blue Grass Belle and Ben
Brush come. Another Item TO be no
teo in this race is that the placed
horses were American and those un-
placed by English stires.
This mare is n triumph 10 Ameri-
can breeding, full of Lexington, Glen
coe, Australian and bennington
strains, with no modern importations
represented in the pedigree. / must
tabulate her pedigree in extenso for
my book. as 1t bears upon one Of my
strongest contentious and goes far to
establish the value of our old hard
bottomed strains OF blood.
The race from a time standpoint
beats any four miles ever run, either
/ in actual contest or against time. and
she carried "a pounds more than the
| featherweight carried against time by
| the holder of the next best record
which was made against time and noi
in an actual contest against horses. as
this was This mare trailed the field
for two or three miles and then came
on and won away off. This race sets
at rest the charge that four miles is /:
cruel distance. No horse was injured
and the mare won in easy fashion and
with her ears pricked. I fought fol
the four-mile distance. and the other
members of the commission yielded
from Y miles up TO Il mile at a time
until ! got them TO my distance. Mr.
Winn says he hopes TO add TO the value
until II some day reaches $4,000 I'm
value, and the race is now a fixed event
each year. The race was worth going
across the continent to see."
The -year-old winners, five in
number and including Inquieta, Ring
ling. EXton, Sumptuous and Lace
credited to Fatherless. the dead sou
Of lsonomy and Orphan Agnes, who
ruled as premier of the Ellerslie stud
at Charlottesville, Va, have won TWEEN
ty-three races and close to $4,000
this season. All of these youngsters
were bred at Ellerslie. Inquieta and
Lace figure both as purse and stake
/ winners.
Garth. bay gelding. 5, by Father
less, dam Belle Fleur, a product OF
the Ellerslie stud. won at Laurel. Nd
and did six furlongs in 1855 over
R heavy track. Belle Fleur. dam OF
Garth. was also bred at Ellerslie. She
was sired by Eon, son of Eolus. dam
| Ginning Bells, by Uncas