Love Wisely ch.c. 1893 (Wisdom - Lovelorn, by Philammon). Sire Line Birdcatcher. Family 11-e.

Bred by A. Hoole, he was first campaigned by Hamar Bass (whose father, Sir William Blass, owned the great Sceptre (b.f. 1899 Persimmon)) and, following the death of Mr. Bass, by Sir Ernest Cassel. Love Wisely's victory in the Ascot Gold Cup as a three year old was a feat previously managed in the preceding thirty years only by St. Simon (br.c. 1881 Galopin) and and Marcion (ch.c. 1890 Royal Hampton).

Described as strong and compact with perfect hocks, he had the misfortune to belong to the same generation as Persimmon (b.c. 1893 St. Simon) and St. Frusquin (br.c. 1893 St. Simon). He won one of four starts as a two year old. At three he won the Ascot Gold Cup beating Florizel (br.c. 1891 St. Simon), Laodamia (b.f. 1890 Kendal) and Sir Visto (b.c. 1892 Barcaldine), and finished 2nd in the Two Thousand Guineas to St. Frusquin by three lengths. From his two starts as a four year old he won the Jockey Club Stakes, beating Velasquez (b.c. 1894 Donovan) and Chelandry (b.f. 1894 Goldfinch), and finished 3rd in the Ascot Gold Cup, defeated by Persimmon and Winkfield's Pride (ch.c. 1893 Winkfield).

In the stud he got the Doncaster Cup winner Amadis (b.c. 1906), whilst Bridge of Canny (b.c. 1903) proved a useful sire in South America getting the good winner and stallion Picacero (b.c. 1912). He is best known through his daughter, Anchora (ch. f 1905), grandam of the One Thousand Guineas winner Fair Isle (bbr.f. 1927 Phalaris), the St. Leger winner and Champion Sire Fairway (b.c. 1925 Phalaris) and the Champion Sire Pharos (br.c. 1920 Phalaris).  Another daughter, Mandola (ch.f. 1908), produced the Stewards' Cup winner Tetrameter (ch.c. 1917 The Tetrarch). Love Wisely stood among the top twenty sires in 1903, 1906 and 1907. He died in June of 1907 from a ruptured bowel.