18 NOTES ON BREEDING RACEHORSES. 



ready-made theories, but are anxious for real facts from which 

 to draw instruction, I will detail the racing career of Pocahon- 

 tas, in order to show that she comes up to my standard of a 

 good brood-mare. Pocahontas, though she was a roarer, by 

 her racing during four seasons proved herself possessed of a 

 good constitution ; her form, moreover, was not so inferior as 

 .many pretend it to have been. If she had run in races of 

 minor importance, she would probably have had more than 

 one winning-bracket to her name. 



Pocahontas, bred 1837, by Glencoe out of Marpessa (dam 

 of Jeremy Diddler and Boarding School Miss), when two years 

 old ran only in the Criterion, unplaced to Crucifix. 



As a three-year-old she ran twice, also unplaced: in the 

 Oaks, won by Crucifix, and in the Goodwood Cup, won -by 

 Beggarman, in which race Lanercost was second and Hetman 

 Platoff third. 



At four years of age she ran three times unplaced : in the 

 Goodwood Cup, the Cesarewitch, and the Cambridgeshire. 



In the following year, at Goodwood, she won the first heat 

 of a race finally won by Currier. At Brighton she also won 

 the first heat of a race ultimately won by Miss Heathcote. She 

 made her last appearance on the turf in a mile race heats at 

 Rochester and Chatham, where in a field of nine horses she 

 won the first heat and in the other two ran second to 

 Patchwork. 



To see mares celebrated on the turf like Marie Stuart, 

 Fraulein, etc. turn out indifferent at the stud may at least 

 partially be accounted for by their too arduous and too pro- 

 tracted racing careers. 



Lord Falmouth's mares, whose racing careers invariably 

 close with the end of their fourth year, rarely suffer in a 

 like manner. In support of the correctness of this and other 

 assertions advanced by me, I give the list of that nobleman's 

 entire stud at Mereworth as it existed in 1880. It was com- 

 posed of the following twenty-four mares : 



