228 ashgill; or, the life 



dropped off. On the death of his owner he was sold for 

 a miserable sum, and the Yankees took him. As a 

 sire in America he did wonders, the Yankees asserting 

 that his son Salvator, who won the Great Futurity 

 Stakes, was at that time the best animal that the world 

 had seen. Prince Charlie died in America in 1890, and 

 as the sire of many famous winners, his death was 

 regarded by our mercurial cousins as a national calamity. 



