The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
Man O. Wars Ancestry
Traced Back $50 Years

Doncaster, Goodwood and Chester cups
and the dam OF the Derby winner Thor
mandy.
In the less remote maternal line OF
Man o. Wars pedigree there is not quite
the same class of producing mares that
distinguish the. earlier crosses. They
were wonderfully prolific, though not OF
winners. Nor were the matings from
Anticipations time onward for several
generations always with just such sires
as might have been chosen for the fam
lily tree of future king OF the turf.
Shuttle. the sire of Anticipation's daugh-
ter, Maniac. got the St Leger winner
Stavely and the dams of the Doncaster
Cup winners Fulford and Consul but
STRIPPING was an obscure horse whose
| pedigree | have been unable to find in
| Weatherby or Pick and whose identity
seems to have been unknown to the com
piler of August Belmont's elaborate cata-
logue of the Nurseury Stud. where Man
o. War was foaled. ST. Nicholas's chief
claim to distinction was as grandsire of
| the St Leger winner Saucebox Gains
as the grandsire of the Derby winner
Wild Dayrell and Underhand as the
horse that won the northumberland
Plate three years in succession.
Man o. Wars Fourth Dam.
| nc uHHdfueu daughter OnuernanQ
that was Man O. Wars fourth dam pro-
duced fifteen foals, ten of which were
FLIES and nine of which won races.
! Mizpah, the foal Of 1880. was by Mac
| gregor, winner of the Two Thousand
| Guineas and favorite for the Derby until
he broke down on the ever Of the race.
| This horse traced back TO Maniac in the
direct maternal line. His daughter was
a winner and produced the winners
! Watch Tower. Merry Token, Watchful
and Tanzmeister, the latter stake
horse that earned more than $4,000 on
the English turf.
Merry Token, foaled In 1891, was by
the. Derby winner. Merry Hampton
| She produced five foals in England be-
fore Mr.. Belmont imported her in 1902,
and here she became the dam of such
fair winners as Merry Task. Merry
Gift, Tactics, Sand Mole and MANU-
bah, the last two being by imported
Rock Sand, winner of the Derby st.
| Leger and Two Thousand Guineas. and
| enc of the greatest sires of his time.
| Mahubah was foaled in 1910. After
winning one race of six furlongs for
| maiden three-year-olds at Lexington
| she was retired and bred to Fair Play
in 1914 Her first foal was the chestnut
| filly Mazda, winner of two unimpor-
! tant races in 1917, one in 1918 and three
! in 1919. Barren in 1916, Mahubah pro-
| duced In 1917 another chestnut called
! Man o. War that was distinguished
! only as the brother to Mazda when he
was sold by auction as a yearling at
| Saratoga in 1918 for $1,000 to Samuel d.
! Riddle, a wealthy manufacturer and
| horse fancier of Glen Riddle, Pa. Since
then the chestnut colt has become the
| largest winner in the history of the
American turf, with s24s,46 to his credit
| in two campaigns. Two full brothers
| and q sister, all bays, like their dam,
have been foaled by Man O. Wars dam
! in the last three years. Playfellow.
! now two years old, started nine times
| this season without earning brackets.
Breeding theorists who adhere to the
| belief that the parent which controls
| the color also controls other character
istics OF the offspring will be likely to
give the lions share of the credit to
| Man o. Wars sire for producing the
! greatest race horse of the day. And
! by both pedigree and performance Fair
| Play IS worthy OF the compliment. His
! brilliant triumphs in such turf tests as
! the Realization, the Brooklyn Derby
and the Coney Island Jockey Club
stakes stamped him as a race horse OF
the first class. Hastings. his sire. had
the speed of the wind, was son
of the great and royalty bred SPEND
l.
than S1,000.000 In purses and stakes.
Fair Plays dam. imported Fairy Gold,
ranks among the best daughters of the
renowned Bend Or, whose family now
rivals that OF St Simon. Fairy Gold, be
Il noted took her color from her sire and
gave 1t to her son.
Some Great Money Winners.
Among all the famous race horses Of
I IL L. hn 90 n r
Rock Sand alone has won more money
than Mr.. Riddles great three-year-old
has won in his two campaigns. The
sire of Mahubah earned $780, sS In the
twenty-one races he ran in England,
but Il required three campaigns to pile
up the quarter of million. AT the
close of his three-year-o campaign he
was credited with only about sl3s,0p.
Two other English horses, 1singlass
$3.50, 900 and Donovan G255.Sl2) surpass
Rock Sand in the total amount OF
money won. but neither OF them comes
into the pedigree Of the American
champion. Isinglass was campaigned
until five years old. though he ran only
twelve races, eleven of which he won.
Donovan's earnings however, accrued
In two seasons. during which he won
eighteen out OF twenty-one races, in
Guiding the Derby and st. Leger
Fair Play ranks next TO Rock Sand
among the money winning ancestors of
Man o. War The sire of the champion
earned $50 in his thlrty-two races,
ten of which ne won. West Australian,
the great-great-grandsire of Fair Play,
and the first horse to win the Derby,
st. Leger and Two Thousand Guineas,
earned 81 597 In the eleven races ne
ran, sixty odd years ago. Hermit, the
sire of Fairy Colds grandam, won
SCI, $50 in twenty-three races. Thor
manly, the sire OF Bend d'Or's dam, won
Sc, 1876 while Galopin, grandsire of the
dams of both Fairy Gold and Rock
Sand, earned $i3650.
Though progressive breeders the world
over would consider Man o. War an
unusually well bred horse he could not
be registered as thoroughbre in the
English stud book. The flaw in his
pedigree, as seen by the British turf
authorities. is found In the one native
American line Of his ancestry, through
Aerolte. dam Of Spendthrift, Fellow
craft and Rutherford. and sister to tho
great four mile runner Tdlewild, by
Lexington. Australian, the sire OF
Spendthrift: Cinderella, the dam Of
Hastings; Fairy Gold, the dam Of Fair
Play, and both Rock Sand and Merry
Token. the sire and dame OF Mahubah,
were bred In England from registered
stock. but there are several mares m
the remote American crosses OF Aero
lite's pedigree that cannot be traced In