STILL UNAPPROACHED
THE ECLIPSE MALE LINE
RECENT CLASSIC RECORD
i .InclUsiveT of :.£ dozen ■■■substitute races run at-NewmarkcK during !the^ war, pne;hundred"classics, nave been decided in: England' since 1915. -Forty-four .different sires have'supplied: the-eighty-five individual winners; ihd,;••with -five- exceptions, these. stallions'''were Vail bred within the .British; Isles;': (writes:|;''b.blK.A.":in : thie ''Sporting,, Life")..',. The. exceptions',were the imported Tracery" and the P^engfa-bred stallions .Alcantara IJ,, .Bruleuf; : Epinard, and Teddy. Tracery, sired' Papyrus, and The Panther, while the winners represent- - ing 'the Trench horses quoted Were Kandy, Brulette, Rodosto;! and Rose ■•'> of England. The ' Eclipse male lines have been credited1 with/ 'eighty-one victories.'' Eleven races have gone to the Matehem male line, and.the reniaining eight, classics have been won for the Herod tribe. ' \ ■ ' Within .these twenty, ■- years, while Matchem. and Herod,, have, returned into classic records,. .the. "Galppin ■' family has faded out altogether, .without one successful colt ,to carry on. Galppin founded the line which produced Kandy; and his famous. fipn:iSt.: Simon: was the direct' male ancestor •of Brbwiihylda, Canyon; Charlebelle, Pillion, Eoseway, and Silver Urn. ■ MALE LINE SUCCESSES. Thirty;.^races^hja>^^bje^,geturqcl,.by_the '-flirecfriiale-line" descendants of Bend Oi', v and the Derby winners include., Grand Parfade, Humorist, Manna, Cam'eionian, and Jitlie Newmarket winners Pdmmern and s-Fifinella. Tfiere were ten"*inners of the iTwo Thousand^Guineas,' md Pommeni, ■'Fairway,' and sFirdaussl'earrjed off the St. JLeger. , Eleven individual-winners shared ythe eleven sucVessestinthe'jfillies' races. *' I The Isonomy;male lirie.h'as provided the jDerby, celebrities; Sansovino', Trigo, Blen--■lieim, and Windsor liadjiand also five win--hierspf the !>l)oncaster J|St.; Leger. The :-thirteen winners J ,<jf ~ ;jspventeen classics■'from IsoiiQtny 'aH'jconie'lthrpugh Isinglass f—Swynford, . St'SiLouis.' This colt jwas the onlynvinte, of4hejiTwo Thousand SGuMeas;- he was''byJL'Ouvois, a son of flsinglass. ;: The !Sj/,.S£eger winners were iTrigo, Sandwich,' and^Windsor Lad,, with Uhe fillies TranquilandKeysoe. The two : candidates for the Oaks were JSaucy S,iie:. andj'Udaipur.1 :«' ?"'-, ' \'{\ , Hampton is g credited-. w jth nine win■jners of rajcesj ■ bift. seVen were isecurednby! Gainsborough,.,.,Gay;.■Crusader', jand Vaucluse during the war. Post-war i victories .have been secured'by-"Bayuda,-iStraitlaceivSolarip,1; Singapore,, Orwell,- and .."the double-event' chain pipit"' Hyperion. '. ■ ;'• The Matchem male line/was revived by tHurry On and his offspring, Captain /Cuttle, i Call JBoy/ _ Coroniichy .£obpggan; tPlack.-'PeAnycdmequick; and" Cresta;L&W;' i There was also.. Scuttle, a daughter ' pf Cuttle, and tho'NewOaks heroine jMy Dear, by Beppo. These, winners of i'eleven classics all come .-.down from ■iMatchem'ithrou'gh.Vfhe-i.'undefe'oted. Barcal; inline. ■ '" " " '.' V,. ■ """". I i The Speculum line fj-om Vedette has supjplied" April the'''-Fifth', * Craig ,an ' Erari, SBoplc La\v,l Beam,: Sunny .Jane, .Short fStory,-and, Light Broeade.^.j, All descend Ithrough Su'nsiari'but' five -were-fillies." .; t The Tetrarch line' from Herod got Caligula,., Saln;o.nr,Tr.out,i,:Pplemarch,,,.,Tetratema, Mr. Jinks, and Four Course. There
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1934, Page 23
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