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Muley Moloch, the best living representative of the 

 hero of the once-famed Underley stud, has been 

 changing hands for io/. and I5/. ! and resigning 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 powerful 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 " Raw- 

 cliffe Horse." This lack of size in Barbelle is rather 

 telling on her descendants, and the young Dutchmen, 

 like the Heroes, Chanticleers, and Vaticans, 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 general 

 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 Priam's blood with 

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

 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 are generally pre- 

 ferred to his sire's. He is very little above fifteen- 

 two, and rather cloudy-eyed ; but he is one of those 



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