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lock, 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-%-os" 

 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 Pru- 

 nellas, was the dam of Partisan, there is much truth in 

 the saying, that there is hardly a blood-thing in Eng- 

 land without a stain of old Prunella 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 

 #on three races out of eleven. In 1795 she was put 

 to the stud, threw a Derby winner to Waxy (who was 

 never happy without 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 beautiful quarters, which he transmitted 

 in the highest perfection to his son Whisker, who was 

 perhaps the finer looking animal of the two. Whale- 

 bone was much smaller, and not so good-looking as 

 either of them ; barely fifteen two, and bordering, in 

 colour, on a brown ; and Woful was thought by many 



