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Lanercost and Joe Andrews ; and King Fergus may 

 be traced, through Beningboro', Orvile, and Emilius, 

 to Priam, on the one side, and through Hambletonian, 

 Whitelock, and Blacklock, to Voltaire, on the other. 

 Of all his sons, however, Eclipse has most reason (as 

 Dr. Bullock Marsham would say) "to rejoice in 

 Pot-8-osf as from his union with a King Herod 

 mare came Waxy, the modern ace of trumps of the 

 Stud Book; whilst Whalebone and Whisker were 

 the Waxy foals of Penelope, a daughter of Prunella. 

 Whalebone was, in his turn, by a strictly-orthodox 

 cross with the Selim, Reubens, and Wanderer blood, 

 the sire of Camel, Defence, and Sir Hercules, and 

 the grandsire of Touchstone and Irish Birdcatcher; 

 while Whisker must, in consequence of The Colonel's 

 failure, and Cobham's refusal to run to his splendid 

 trials, in public, rest his claims to renown so far on 

 the stock of Emma ; or fall back in future years on 

 his great grandson Rifleman. As Parasol, another 

 of the Prunellas, was the dam of Partisan, there is 

 much truth in the saying, that there is hardly a 

 blood- thing in England without a stain of old Pru- 

 nella in its veins. She was a bay mare, belonging 

 to the Duke of Grafton, was not placed for the Oaks 

 in 1791, and, in fact, only won three races out of 

 eleven. In 1795 she was put to the stud, threw a 

 Derby winner to Waxy (who was never happy with- 

 out a rabbit in his paddock) in 1806, and died in 1811. 

 Waxy laid the foundation of Robson's training fame, 

 when he beat Gohanna, the pride of Petworth, in 

 the Derby of 1793, on which memorable day three 

 sons of Pot-8-os finished in the first four ; and the 

 same numerical luck attended the first three-year-old 

 batch of the Lanercosts over the same ground. He 

 was a very handsome rich bay, with a white stocking 

 on his off hind leg, good length, and especially beau- 

 tiful quarters, which he transmitted in the highest 

 perfection to his son Whisker, who was perhaps the 



