The New York herald., 1922-12-17
Two Imported Stations Lead
Seasons List of Success
fnl Sires.
THE FINN'S FINE START
vulcain and Peter Pan Each
Represented by Five Winners
of $4,000 or More.

Now that the racing Sedsoh - ONci
statisticians, of the running turf ana
Of the trotting turf are casting up the
accounts of the campaign and analyz-
ing them in the interest OF future
breeding operations. While the No-
taries of trotting deal almost wholly
with performances measured by the
watch at the uniform distance OF one
mile. the followers OF the other branch
Of turf sport, ignoring the time test
rate their performers and their stock
horses according to the amount o,
money won. Both methods have their
strong and weak points, and neither
is anything like infallible in separat-
ing the equine sheep from the goats:
Rewards which await the successlui
breeder of thoroughbred racehorses IN
America to-day are perhaps the largest
known in any country at any PERIOD
and this fact is giving unusual interest
to the blood lines of the winners.
Records compiled for the American
Racing Manual" show that the oHspring
OF each of nineteen sires this year won
800, 900 or more in purses and STAKES
one of these having to his credit $2lV,ot.
This number Is almost so per cent
larger than last year. when thirteen
sires reached six figures in the earnings
of their offspring.
Following the old saying that money
talks" imported MCGEE. the sire of EX-
ternnina ator, is placed at the top of the
list. His famous son earned S70,075 or
the S210,677 to his credit and the good
four-year-old Firebrand piled up s39, 10
more. But these were the only winners
by MCGEE that earned as much as
$4,000. Fifty-three others earned from
$25 up to sS,72s. six of them passing the
$4,000 mark. but the majority were per-
haps doubtful assets to their owners. All
told. they started in 736 races. winning
ia of them and being placed in 1913
others. MCGEE is % years old and his
numerous representatives average in age
from to IL years.
wrack, another English horse, nine
years younger than MCGEE and with
none of his fifty-two representatives
older than 8 years. landed in second
place with S169,440 to the credit OF his
offspring. Four OF his get-Devasta-
ton. Little Chief Knobbie and Careful
earned upward of $4,000 each and ten
earned upward Of $4,000. These are the
kind of winners that count. and it is
worthy of note that Vulcain. Peter Pan,
The Finn and Marathon are the only
aires of 1922 that can fairly be COM
pared with Wrack in this respect.
~Younxest of the Sires.
and his showing. all things considered,
II close to the best. presaging a brilliant
future for the horse that won the
Withers and the Belmont in 1915. He
went to the stud only four years ago,
90 that his oldest representatives were
lhree-year-olds. or the thirteen two
year-olds and three-year- that
started and were placed Oceanic won
$2s.os2. Kai-Sang S27.s47. Zev s24.6s5
and Bud Lerner s15.124, while the little
family's total earnings were $102.371.
vulcain and Peter Pan alone got more
winners of $4,000 than are credited to
The Finn. Each has five. Vulcain.
only two years older than The Finn, and
a son of the great Rock Sand, is the
sire of Bunga Buck (s21,S11). Heph
aistol (s1s.150), Mulciber (s17.540) ..
Fair Gain ts10.235) and Bluemont
($10.02S). Twenty-eight of his get were
placed and they earned s120,s70. Peter
Pans sixteen representatives include
such good ones as Brainstorm (s26.746). 4.
Tryster (s16.O25). Exodus ts13.S9D,
.Prudish (s12,77o) and Hullabaioo
ls11.60S).
these two dead slres that seventeen of
Tltimus's winners and fourteen OF those
by Celt were two-year-olds Neither
horse was represented by starter older
than two that earned as much as $1,000.
Peter Pan. on the other hand. had no
two-year- among his leading bread
winners. while vulcain had but one.
Fair Play. famed as the sire of Man
O. War, stands third among the winning
stations with only s1s9 less than wrack
10 the credit Of his offspring. Only
twenty-four OF them earned brackets.
but these included Mad Halter (s44,25O)
and Dunlin S43.441). two larger win
ners than any other sire can show in
1922.