60 NOTES ON BREEDING RACEHORSES. 



5. The winner of the Oaks, Feu de Joie, in-bred to Touch- 



stone (dam of Allumette, Hallate, etc.). 



6. Veilchen, in-bred to Touchstone (dam of Vergissmein- 



nicht, dam of Wer Weiss, Wunderhorn, Walhalla, 

 R F. Walpurgis). 



7. Bay Celia, in-bred to Camel (dam of The Earl and The 



Duke). 



8. Elphine, in-bred to Beningbro' (dam of Lambton and 



Warlock). 



9. Finesse, in-bred to Highflyer (dam of Decoy). 



10. Decoy, in-bred to Sir Peter (dam of The Drone, Sleight 



of Hand, Van Amburgh, Legerdemain, Phryne, Flat- 

 catcher). 



11. Legerdemain, in-bred to Peruvian (dam of Toxophilite). 



The latter instance is particularly remarkable, as it seems 

 to corroborate the evidence of Mandragora, Mineral, and The 

 Miner that in-breeding in mares does not influence individual 

 potency in an equally unfavorable degree as in stallions. 



Legerdemain is own sister to Sleight of Hand, The Drone, 

 and Van Amburgh, who proved themselves inferior or useless 

 at the stud ; she herself, on the contrary, produced a horse of 

 the first class, like Toxophilite, and that, too, under very ad- 

 verse circumstances. In order to prevent the frequent re-occur- 

 rence of horsing, she was covered, when not more than three 

 years of age, by Ion, won in the month of October of the same 

 year (1849) the Cesarewitch, slipped her foal the day after, and 

 then remained two years longer in training all of which cer- 

 tainly did not enhance her usefulness at t*he stud. 



A young mare with but two clear removes in-bred, who 

 proved herself a pearl of the first water on the turf, and was 

 in 1881 winner of the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks: 



12. Thebais, in-bred to Touchstone. 



Three clear removes in the descent from their common ances- 

 tor show among others the parents of: 



