46 NOTES ON BREEDING RACEHORSES. 



Besides these England has kept nothing prominent of Parti- 

 san's progeny ; neither Kingston, nor his two most noteworthy 

 sons, Ely and Caractacus, having realized at the stud what 

 they promised on the turf. The Derby winner of 1862 was 

 later on exported to Kussia. 



Glaucus's line is represented by The Nabob's sons only, of 

 which England possessed Nutbourne alone ; while France got 

 Suzerain and Vermout, with his sons, Boiard and Perplexe, 

 and Austria, Bois Roussel. America, too, has owned in a 

 lineal descendant from the Byerly Turk, Lexington, one of 

 her most successful sires. 



The Godolphin Arabian in our days is, properly speaking, 

 represented by the Melbourne family alone, and in England 

 threatens to become extinct in his male descendants. The 

 most successful stallion of that clan living seems to be Ruy 

 Bias ; but this son of West Australian is in France, whither 

 the first winner of that great treble event or triple crown as 

 it is called Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St. Leger was 

 exported. It may yet be that Knight of the Garter, Plebeian, 

 or Statesman rouse themselves, and after all give to England a 

 first-class sire of that strain of blood. For the first of the three 

 it was, perhaps, unfortunate that The Jewel, in foal to him, was 

 sent abroad ; yet it is questionable whether Przedswit, with his 

 doubtful pluck, would in England have become of sufficient 

 note to induce the breeding public to send him really good 

 mares. The Earl, Mornington, Pell Mell, Straffbrd, and the 

 brother to Straffbrd, appear scarcely destined to continue in 

 coming centuries the Melbourne family. 



It is a remarkable fact, that the Melbourne blood in its 

 female descent shows to so much greater advantage than in the 

 other sex, for which reason the family is so inadequately repre- 

 sented in the stallions belonging to it. In the whole stud book 

 there is scarcely to* be found a sire of better, and in their pro- 

 geny more successful, mares than Melbourne (Blink Bonny, 

 Blooming Heather, Canezou, Go-ahead, Leila, Mentmore Lass, 

 The Slave, Stolen Moments, Sortie, The Bloomer, etc.) ; but of 

 his sons, West Australian alone achieved a great reputation. 



