The Washington herald., 1914-04-19
By l.. ID. SALE.

By L.. ID. SALE.
Those who love beautiful and highly
bred horses. charming rural scenery. SooC
roads and Ozone-loaded air should taHC
advantage of these joyous days Of spriug
and motor or drive to Brightview Farm. .
Brightwood Farm. to be specific, lies
fifteen miles northeast OF Washington, a
short distance from Colesville. in Mont
gomery County, and is now the leading
farm where trOtters are bred in the cUUn-
ty, and among the most important OF The
kind in Maryland. Javins Brothers, JuEn
and Francis, are at last on the right
track. They have discarded pretty much
everything in the way of brood mares
that is not standard bred, to begin with,
while their selection of sires is of APP
proved blood lines.
At the head of the list of sires at the
farm is that grand race and grandly bred
horse Kushan. 2:lS ii, on a half-mile
track. As an individual he has no s',-
perior in the entire South, and very Sew
IL any equals. In the matter of blood
lines-no stallion living has anything on
the son of Kremlin. 2:7 3-4. by Lord Rus
sell. and Rusalka, by Mazatland, in turn
son of Electioneer and Basement, by
Piedmont.
Those who have known Kushan in
previous years, saw but the shadow
as compared with what he is at this
hour of writing. We made a special
visit to him only last week, and was
amazed at the transformation. He was
out for inspection. his rich, bay color
ing showed a care that he never before
had enjoyed. for his coat shimmered in
the rays of the monday sun like bur-
nished gold. Heavy as Kushan now is
in flesh. he is as hard as granite. All
the winter long and all during the spring
months-rain or shine, mud or snow
he has had his ten miles of road work
each day, Sundays excluded. Physically,
Kushan is today in the apogee of his
existence. He has fully recovered vitality
lost through years of racing. and he is
at this moment in a condition to sire
stamini and the extreme speed he has
inherited from a long line of speedy and
speed-giving ancestors. If given even a
fraction of a chance to do so.
We challenge any intelligent horseman
to pick a flaw in Kushan's individuality
and biood-lines. We all know what he
was as a race horse We all know what
his opportunities were while on the turf.
We know he was pulled and pulled to
keep him from getting the low record that
should be his by right. We know how
gamely he fought his heats, in spite
Of his lack of condition, and in spite
of his Infirmities. Not everyone knows,
however. that he traces once through
his sire and once through his dam to
the greatest produced of 2:l0 speed that
has ever lived Miss Russell, who is
represented in the 2:10 list by six genera
tions.
Nor does everyone know that
through his veins runs the blood Of Old
Clara. the immortal daughter Of Ameri-
can Star-she who was the mother OF
Dexter, and also OF Dictator, from whose
loins came Director, and from his loins
Directum. Direct, the Director General.
and from the loins of the last-named the
game trotter ,Mainsheet- Nor does every
one know that Kushan's second dam.
Rusina. was full sister to Nutwood, great
est of broodmare sires, or that Rusina
was half sister of Maud s., 2:oS 81 to
high wheels; or that Miss Russell was