The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
Earliest Sources of His Match
less Speed Were Barbs
and Arabs.
ny GuRNEY G. CUE. :

When a great racehorSe ike Man q
War comes into prominence by beating
hli rivals and all records there is always
widespread interest in his ancestry as
knowing the sources OF his matchless
speed. and when the turf champion Is
colt about to be retired to the stud this
interest is enhanced by the fact that
ancestry then becomes guide by whlch
TO-. Judge whether he will reproduce ms
ewn exceptional characteristics Win
uniformity in his offspring.
Man o. Wars ancestry can De traced
back $50 years or more in the direct
maternal line to his twenty-first dam
The Layton Barb mare. as she is COM
monty called in turf annals, forms the
tap root OF the family tree. WIN her
his pedigree ends, or rather begins. AS
with many other equine immortals or the
prehistoric period of horse racing III
England we know little about her except
her name. and even that is in DOUBT, LOT
while Weatherbys Stud Book refers 10
her merely as the Layton Barb mare,
William Picks equally authentic TURF
Register calls her "Mr. Layton's Violet
Barb mare" which presumably means
AIR. Layton's Barbary mare Violet, since
the colors of horses do not include violet
She Is not registered in either Weatheroy
or Pick. practically the only trace or ner
there being as tailpiece to the pedigrees
of prominent running horses or very
early days.
The number of these pioneer perform
ers descended from her is quite remark
able, as revealed by an examination OF
Picks first volume, in which the pedl-
grees and performances OF the horses
are sketched in the order of their birth.
In the closing years of the seventeenth
century and the early years OF the eigh-
teenth the few horses whose names every
turtle knew included Old Scar. Trumpet,
Counsellor, Old Cartouch. Young Car
touch and Little Partner, all of which
trace direct to her In the maternal line.
Owned by Lord darcy.
BY piecing together the scattered frag-
ments concerning her In Pick we learn
that she was once owned by Lord
Darcy, an official Of the Government in
the time of Charles H., and that she
produced a filly foal by the Kings horse
a Icdsworth an imported Barb, like her
aara. According to Pick. she also pro-
duced a FLY by Places White Turk,
morse owned by Oliver Cromwells stud
xaneter, and this filly became the great
Erardam OF the Duke of Devonshire's
Old Scar one of the first race horses rec
cheaters Bay Wanton at four miles over
Newmarket Heath as early as ITO
Another of the Layton Barb mares
tcals was Old Counsellor. by son OF
Lord Shaftesbury's Turk. Old Counsel
iOr's son got the sensational gray horse
Badger. alias Thunderbolt. the Man o
War % two hundred years ago. that lit
erSsiy walked round the turning post at
xoFs "a "a race for the Ladies' Gold Cup
- n Af... z1J L.
training behind him. and that never was
beaten for Kings Plate.
1t was through her daughter by Dods-
Nortn that the line from the Layton
Barb mare was handed down TO Man
O. War. This daughter also was bred
20 Places White Turk and produced
the dam of race horse of prominence
called Trumpet. the record of whose
performances has not been preserved
The daughter of White Turk appears
in the records also as the great grand
dam of Cartouch. of which horse Pick
says: Though Cartouch did not ex-
coed IA hands, II has been affirmed by
many sportsmen that there was not
horse Of his time in the kingdom able
to run with him from eight to twelve
stone" Q6s pounds.
Trumpet's dam was in due course bred
to Brimmer, son of Lord D'Arcy's yell
name appears twice in the pedigrees OF
Flying Childers and Matchem. three
times in that OF Herod and five times
an that of Eclipse. The daughter of
Brimmer that resulted from this union
was mated with Match'em the sire OF
Old Scar. and in ITO she foaled Brown
Farewell, the first Of the line to find
place in Weatherby's Stud Book. This
MI o produced seventeen foals in
III nty years and remained fruitful to
thA ripe age Of twenty-five. Her i'm
nae late offspring included half score
al noted performers and producers,
xr1n king her one Of the great mares of
tho breed. Among them was the dam
OF the renowned race horse and sire
Natch'em. one OF the three progenitors
OF that period 70 which all thorough
breds OF the present day trace back in
1he direct male line.
1t Is through him that Man O. War
goes back In tail male to Lord Co
dolphin's Arabian, the grandsire of
Match EN-, so that the turf champion of
to-day reunites these two lines from
the Layton Barb mare that diverged
through Brown Farewell more than
two hundred years ago: Right here II
Is interesting to note that such dis
tinguished old time American race
horses as Iroquois. Parole. Kentucky.
Ferida, Falsetto and General Monroe go
back to Brown Farewell and the Layton
Barb mare in the direct maternal line.
Brown Farewell's Many Winners.
Among the daughters OF Brown Fare
well was a full sister to the fast horse
Guy, by Greyhound the latter an i'm
ported Barb owned by King William III.
and sire Of the famous winner Goliah.
Bred to the speedy stallion Bloody But
AroH xtsftb at,Ia al, of
bay on his hip, tho sister 10 Guy gave
birth 70 Bay Bloody Buttocks In 1923.
This mare was sister to the
dam OF Shafto's Squirrel. winner
OF sweepstakes OF $1,000 run
nver the Beacon course at New
market in 1853. and sire Of 1s3
winners of s2s0,o0 Bay Bloody But
tocks in 1875 produced widdrington's
Hpinster, by Crofts Partner, the grand
sire of Herod and sire OF the dam Of
Match EN-. This wlddrdngton mare. as
she was known. In 1741 won the Kings
plate in four heats over the round
Course Of three miles and half az Ne
market, carrying 1ss pounds. and when
Iretired TO the stud produced several good
-. Including the prolific sire Shep-
X<d's Crab. and his full sister, the gray
mare Leedess spinster. a Kings Plate
winner and the dam OF three winners.
no the cover OF Janus. son of Lord
CyodoIphin's Arabian. Spinster produced
an 1851 an unnamed Ally by skim. that
- A~.x known as the nranddam OF Te1c-