The New York herald., 1921-05-23
'CLASSIC WINNERS
NOT THOROUGHBRED
Neither Broomspun Nor Be-
have Yourself Could Be Reg
istered in England.
pEDIGREES 'UNTRACED'
Would Be SO Stigmatized if
Offspring Found Way Into
British Stud Book.
PEDIGREES 'UNTRACED'
by GURNEY G. CUE.


If e. r. Bradley, the proud owner
and breeder of Behave Yourself. should
send this years winner of the Kentucky
Derby to England, or If FL. p. Whitney
should do the same with his homebred
Freshness winner, Broomspun, neither
OF the colts that defeated the pick of
American three-year-olds for the rich
est turf prizes OF the year would be
admitted to registration as a thorough
bred race horse. And If. while there
either of them was mated with a mare
registered in the English Stud Book.
the paternity of the resulting foal
would be thus recorerded >in that re-
pository of the genealogy of the equine
elect ''Sire, Behave YOURSELF Cor
Broomspun, as the case might be),
pedigree untraced."
Just this happened to the offspring
of John L. MaddensN American horse
Sir Martin, once favorite for the Ep-
som Derby and afterward assigned top
weight in the leading English handicaps.
And 1t would happen in the Same way
to the great Man o War and to many
other noted American winners whose
pedigrees cannot be traced >back In all
Lies to imported horses registered In
the English Stud Book
Curiously enough. the name Of the
renowned Hanover constitutes the bar
sinister. though not the only one, in
both pedigress. Breeders and horsemen
here together with many in England,
have long regarded Hanover as one Of
the most potent progenitors of speed in
American turf annals, and their faith
In him has not been lessened by the
significant fact that his son Handball
got the dam Of this years Kentucky
Derby winner, while his daughter Hand
spun produced the dam of the colt that
won the $4,000 Preakness Stakes. But
Handball was inbred to the tabooed
Lexington, once deemed to be the great
est sire American racing men had seen.
snd Hanover goes back in the direct
maternal line to FALCON, the full sister
to Gray Eagle. which constitutes an
other blot on his 'scutcheon, since this
line, like that of Lexington's dam.
originated outside the English Stud
Book.
Miss Ringlets. the dam Of Behave
Yourself, comes Of an old American fam
fly. her dam being Bessie by The III
Used out Of Belle Of Nantura by Jils
johnson out of Miss Helen by Endorser
out Of John Harpers Ellen Swigert
BY Bulwer.
Neither the sire nor the dam Of Ellen
Swigert is registered In the American
Stud Book but II is stated in the pedi-
gree OF Ellen SWlgeTC lnaC bulWeE WAS
q son of Gray Eagle and that Ellen
Swigert's dam was Cora, by Trumpeter :
grandam Yellow Jacket. by Albert third
dam by Union and fourth dam by Tip
poo Saib. where the pedigree ends. 1t Is
typical early American ancestry. not
without flaws and impossible Of verifica-
tion In all lines, yet no more improbable
than many of those in the early editions
of the English Stud Book. To stigma
tze the whole pedigree Of Behave Your
self as untraced because of the remote
flaws will strike American horsemen as
the height of absurdty.
The dam of Behave Yourself ran six
teen races. winning once as two-year-
old. In 1903 She has produced five
older foals that lived, and all have raced
and won. though none was above the or
dinary. Bessie and Belle of Nantura,
respectively the grandam and great
grandam of the Kentucky Derby winner.
ran and won and each produced a
winner. Miss Helen was the dam of sew
eral winners of the mediocre class.
John Harper raced Ellen Swigert as a
three-year- In 1854 over the historic
track at Lexington, where Behave Your
self first gave evidence of Derby form
this spring. She won at mile heats in
1:46 and :47h. with SO pounds up. and
scored again the next week over the old
Oakland course at Louisville, where the
race was at mile heats, three In five.
She ran successfully at four and also at
five, but not against the best horses.
1t Is noticeable that in the American
Racing Calendar OF those years her
dams name is not stated. But the mare
was bred in Missouri and Mr.. Harper
may not have known the dams name
at that time.
Spun Glass. the dam of Broomspun. was
by imported Rock Sand out of Handspun,
by Hanover out of Spinaway, by imported
bennington out Of Megara. by imported
Eclipse out of Ulrica by Lexington out
, of imported Emelia. She thus traces
back TO registered English stock in the
direct maternal line, but the Lexington
blood is a bar to registration in Eng
land The line is prolific of noted per-
formers. Handspun won ten races and
s12S90. Spinaway, though she ran only
as a two-year-old, made a great name
by winning seven important races and
beating everything she ever met, tnclud-
ing Thora, General Monroe and Barrett.
while in the stud she produced Lazza-
rome, that defeated Domino and Sir Wal
ter In the Suburban and that won the
Iatonia Derby. Megara produced Fene-
lon, winner of thirty-one races. and La
Belle N, winner of twenty-four races
and dam of IA Joya, that defeated such
good ones as Rey FL Santa Anita. Lag
zarone and Henry of Navarro. Ulrica,
the daughter of Lexington, won the
SARATOGA Stakes at mile as a two
year-old and produced the Kentucky
Derby winner Ben Ali, as well as Me-
mento and several other winners Of less
note.