56 NOTES ON BREEDING RACEHORSES. 



Macgregor appears to be unable to produce a horse of note. 



Dalham, Isonomy, and Silvio are still in the commencement 

 of their stud career ; Isonomy, however, possessed such excep- 

 tional merit as a racehorse, that of his future the highest ex- 

 pectations seem justified. 



The fourth category embraces twenty-one stallions, to whom 

 no exception can be taken on the score of shortcomings at the 

 stud, though perhaps Plenipotentiary's name may have a better 

 sound than in reality it deserves. 



Economist's chances were but few, yet as Harkaway's sire he 

 has just claims to our respect. 



Lanercost (sire of Van Tromp) and Flatcatcher have pro- 

 duced a great number of good mares ; to the others no ob- 

 jections will, presumably, be raised ; their names speak for 

 themselves. 



Przedswit alone has as yet had no opportunity to prove him- 

 self in his progeny. It may be urged against him, that he is 

 the only horse of note his dam ever produced, yet his descent 

 on both sides from that inexhaustible source of excellence, 

 Marpessa, through two such brilliant channels as Pocahontas 

 and Boarding School Miss, should justify great expectations. 



In the fifth category there are twenty-five stallions, of whom 

 Chamant and Robert the Devil are too young at the stud to be 

 fairly judged. Of the other twenty-three I can point to Cossack 

 and Andover alone as decided failures, even if the latter pro- 

 duced some useful animals like Cramon. It did not, however, 

 require much individual power on the part of the stallion, when 

 mated with a mare like Haricot. Nor has Barn ton, although 

 the sire of Fandango and Ben Webster, on the whole, been of 

 much use at the stud, for which reason I hesitate to place him 

 on the list of successful sires. 



In England, Van Tromp has not made for himself a great 

 name, he has, however, done better in Russia. 



Venison has produced Alarm and Kingston. Paragone is 

 difficult to classify, but his daughter, Paradigm (dam of Lord 

 Lyon and Achievement), and the success he had in Germany, 

 secure him an honorable place. 



