INTRODUCTION. 



ranging up to 17 hands in height, with bone, muscle, length, action and all the other 

 grand qualities in proportion. In the early days of breeding, from necessity, very 

 many of the best horses were very much inbred, and even incestuously so, and the 

 question of inbreeding is one which commends itself strongiy to mature consideration 

 and examination. According to the maxim that "like produces like," we ought to 

 follow form, blood, speed and other good qualities, and if these good qualities can be 

 maintained and improved by inbreeding, then it must be desirable to a certain extent. 

 Some of the best English and American horses were very much inbred, and 

 the consanguinity of blood did not work deterioration. I am not an 

 advocate of incestuous breeding, either in the human race or the brute creation, 

 but there is no doubt that manly beauty, graceful form and intellectual vigor 

 have resulted from preservation of those high qualities in the human race where 

 not carried too far, and we can see no reason why the inbreeding of the truest best 

 bred and best shaped racers can work an injury to the equine race. Still we think an 

 out cross of pure blood with the essential qualities of a good race-horse and then back 

 to the superior blood and conformation likely to produce the best results. We will give 

 a few examples of inbred modern horses, in England and the same in America, and in 

 doing so will select those of high character which distinguished themselves on the turf, 

 and in the stud, for instance. The Baron, not only a good race-horse, but sire of Stock- 

 well and Rataplan was by Birdcatcher, by Sir Hercules, by Whalebone, by Waxy, by 

 Pot-8-os, by Eclipse. The Baron's dam, Echidna, by Economist, by Whisker, own 

 brother to Whalebone, by Waxy, by Pot-8-os, by Eclipse, Echidna's dam, Miss Pratt 

 by Blacklock, by W T hitelock, by Hambletonian, by King Fergus, by Eclipse. 

 Touchstone, a fine race-horse, and one of the best stallions that ever lived, was by 

 Camel, by Whalebone, by Waxy, by Pot 8-os, by Eclipse, his dam, Banter by Master 

 Henry, by Orville, by Beningbrough, by King Fergus, by Eclipse ; 2d dam, Boadicea 

 by Alexander, by Eclipse. The great Stockwell was much inbred on his dam's side, 

 Pocahontas by Glencoe, dam Marpessa, by Muley, by Orville, by Beningbrough, by 

 King Fergus, by Eclipse. Muley's dam, Eleanor by Whiskey, by Saltram, by Eclipse. 

 Pocahontas' grandam was Clare by Marmion, by Whiskey, by Saltram, by Eclipse ; 

 Clare's dam, Harpalice by Gohanna, by Mercury, by Eclipse. Queen Mary, the dam 

 of Blink Bonny, Bonnie Scotland, &c., was much inbred. Gladiator, Jier sire, was 

 by Partisan, by Walton, by Sir Peter, by Highflyer, by Herod ; her dam by Plenipoten- 

 tiary, by Emilius, by Orville, by Beningbrough, by King Fergus, by Eclipse ; her 

 grandam, Myrrha by Whalebone, by Waxy, by Pot-8-os, by Eclipse ; her great 

 grandam, Gift by Y. Gohanna, by Gohanna, by Mercury, by Eclipse, out of a daughter 

 of Sir Peter, by Highflyer, by Herod. Partisan was out of Parasol, by Pot-8-os, by 

 Eclipse. Pocahontas' best son, Stockwell, was by an inbred horse, and Blink Bonny, 

 Queen Mary's best daughter, was by a horse Melbourne inbred to Herod and Eclipse, 

 so if the preservation of good blood through inbreeding in these striking cases has 

 been a success, is it not reasonable to suppose that the same results must follow 

 inbreeding to good blood and true shape with other desirable qualities in this country? 

 Boston was inbred to Diomed, as also his best son, Lexington. Wanderer and Uncas 

 are both much inbred on the dam's side, being out of a grandaughter of Glencoe, and 

 tracing to an own sister of the Old Hero. Glenmore, one of the best race horses 

 recently on the turf, and whose performances are of the best at all distances, is very 

 much inbred; his dam, Lotta, is by Hunter's Glencoe, son of Imp. Glencoe and 



