280 PERPETUATING A NOBLE LINE. 



Flying Child-era, and a Gimerack were ; but prints of 

 those days were not the prints of 1845 ; for our 

 posterity will know as well every point of a Sir 

 Hercules, a Pantaloon, a Beeswing, and others, as 

 we do ourselves. They will be able to judge to the 

 nicest point how far the racing form of such sires and 

 mares is continued to their progeny, and will gain 

 from this a most correct idea of how far such and 

 such crosses appear to succeed, or the reverse. Thus 

 do I regard the publication of such prints as a 

 national benefit to the Racing World. 



The likenesses of the winners of the Derby, Leger, 

 and Oaks, from paintings by that prince of artists in 

 this particular line, Mr. Herring, Sen-, must all 

 command an interest with the Sporting World that 

 perhaps no other prints can call forth. Animals that 

 have brought fortunes to some, wealth to many, heavy 

 loss to some, and ruin to others, must ever be objects 

 of paramount interest to thousands. Many, no doubt, 

 in bitterness of heart anathematise the hour they 

 first saw the originals; but, perhaps, as many hail 

 the likeness of the noble animal who has brought 

 wealth and happiness to their very door. A Derby 

 or a Leger is not what a race was in former days, 

 a pastime : no ; it has now become a business, an 

 event comprehending the interests of thousands ; an 

 event that raises many to the pinnacle of happiness, 

 or drives them to the lowest depths of despair. Oh, 

 how tumultuously throb those hearts whose possessors 

 have turned from the warning voice of prudence, and 

 staked their all on the efforts of one animal a noble 

 one it is true, and one whose generous nature disposes 

 him to strain every nerve to obey the will of far less 

 generous man ! But then to the initiated comes the 



