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trice, by Codrington, out of Empress, and like 

 her ancestress, was a good performer across 

 country."" 



Mignonette, by Morocco, dam by Marceau, 

 grandam by Delirium, is a handsome half-bred 

 bay mare, bred by Mr. Dunhill, of Market 

 Weighton. She has won some good prizes, and 

 was second for hunting brood mares at Malton 

 two years running. 



The thoroughbred Lavinia, by Theobald, out 

 of Laura, by Volturno, has been a famous brood- 

 mare. She has had a foal every year since 1877, 

 when she dropped Laburnum, a mare that has 

 done his lordship some service. She has beauti- 

 ful quality of bone and elegant quarters, and to 

 judge from her this year's foal, a chesnut colt, by 

 Peppermint, she breeds them with plenty of 

 substance as well as quality. 



Heatherbird, by Grouse out of Trinket, by 

 Touchwood, is a beautifully turned mare, with 

 big flat bone, good strong back and muscular 

 quarters, and looks like carrying a heavy man in 

 the right place. She breeds them strong too, 

 and we were very pleased with a big five-year-old 

 mare by King Harold, and a three-year-old 



■■'■ We tbiuk a great loss is entailed on the lioi'se breeding com- 

 munity by there being no reliable record of the pedigre.BS of 

 horses called half-bred, but really, nearly thoroughbreds. Mauy 

 of Lord Middleton's horses are thoroughbred in appearance, but 

 cannot be registered in the General Stud Book, on account of a 

 stain like the cross of Birdhiil, which has already been referred to. 



