The American thoroughbred by Merry Thomas B & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

Author:Merry, Thomas B & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses, Horse racing, Thoroughbred horse, CHR 1905, PRO Cheston, Edward, Mrs. (donor)
Publisher: Los Angeles : Printed by the Commercial printing house
Published: 1905-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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I think the foregoing chart makes the proposition quite plain that Alice Carneal was no such mare as Levity. If she were, why does her line not produce some good, if not altogether great, sire besides Lexington? Take Levity's line and you find such sires as Strathmore, Salvator, Volturno, Luke Blackburn in the fourth generation and The Bard (sire of Gold Heels) in the fifth. Abdel Kader is the best sire from Alice Carneal, after Lexington; and he got just one good horse, Algerine, whose dam was the dam also of three such performers as Planet, Exchequer and Ninette. Any man who studies pedigrees will agree with me that the merits of Levity are wide-spread and far-reaching, while those of Alice Carneal are virtually limited to one sire and to three performers—Lexington, Umpire and Helmbold. If a gentleman were to commission me to select mares for breeding purposes and I found two mares of equal individuality, one tracing back to Levity and the other to Alice Carneal, I should be more willing to pay $1,000 for the former than $600 for the latter. Levity bears the same relation to America that Prunella does to England, in my way of reasoning, for I can call no mare truly great whose line has run out in four generations as badly as Alice Carneal's has done.

A mare that you cannot well overlook in this connection is the Expedition marc called Maid of the Oaks, foaled in 1817 and dam of that great sire Medoc, who was pretty near a racehorse, having been beaten just twice in nine races. Medoc I must rank as the first and foremost of all American sires between Sir Archy and Lexington. I place him ahead of Boston because Boston got a large number of winners from the daughters of Medoc; and also because INIedoc got first-class performers (for that day, at least) from mares that produced nothing of note from other sires. Take the great Wagner who beat Grey Eagle in the big four-mile post stake of 1839 at Louisville; and what would Wagner have done as a sire without the Medoc mares. And apropos of Wagner let me relate a race which took place in 1840; and I reckon that Major Barak G. Thomas, of Lexington, Ky., is the only living man who saw that race. There were four starters. Gamma by Pacific, who had previously beaten Wagner at four-mile heats; there was Wagner himself, carrying 118 pounds to the mare's 115; and there were two Medoc colts, both four years old and carrying 100 pounds—Red Bill and Blacknose, the latter of whom will be found in the reversed pedigree just above given.

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