200 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



had made by mules" were living, he would find his 

 magnificent Filho da Puta in the same plight ; and 

 Muley Moloch, the best living representative of the 

 hero of the once-famed Underley stud, has of late 

 been changing hands for 10 and 15 I and resign- 

 ing his honours to his good-looking son Galaor. 



The honour of rearing a popular successor to Bay 

 Middleton has so far been left to Barbelle ; although 

 Andover is to our minds the best stamp of horse to 

 look at, that has ever owned him as a sire. This 

 dam of the Flying Dutchman is not nearly so power- 

 ful a looking mare as Crucifix, but short-legged and 

 lengthy, and certainly not fifteen-two. She is very 

 neat, and with that springy wire-hung action, which 

 so far especially distinguishes the scions of the great 

 " Rawcliffe Horse." This lack of size in Barbelle is 

 rather telling on her descendants, and the young 

 Dutchmen, like the Heroes, Chanticleers, and Vati- 

 cans, as a general rule, are as small as the Pyrrhuses, 

 Cowls, and Flatcatchers are big. Sweetmeat, whose 

 stock are somewhat shoulder-tied, but yet speedy for a 

 mile, is no mean substitute for Gladiator, nor Cossack 

 for Hetman Platoff. Whatever might also be the ge- 

 neral opinion on the staying qualities of the Hetmans, 

 Cossack's dam, Joaninna by Priam, was emphatically 

 " a sticker " and though she had only one pace, she 

 could, when she had something to force the running, 

 catch the majority of horses at the Duke's stand if 

 they met her for a " Ditch In " plate. Though 

 Crucifix has failed him on the whole, and thrown 

 very infirm stock, the union of riam's blood with 

 Lottery's, in the case of Weatherbit, has had a suc- 

 cess which bids fair to be lasting. Vulture died 

 from a kick at the Hampton Court Paddocks soon 

 after Orlando, who was only her second foal, was 

 weaned. However, she had even at that early date 

 done enough for her name, as her speed has been 

 transmitted in the highest degree to his stock, which 



