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ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



PEDIGREE OF AYRSHIRE. 



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f Lord Clifden 

 1860 



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<1 



^Newminster 



1848 



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The Slave 

 1852 



ce 



Lady Langden 

 1868 \ 



^Kettledrum 

 1858 



r Galopin 

 1872 



Haricot 

 1847 



^Vedette 

 1854 



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'is 



r Touchstone 

 [Beeswing 

 r Melbourne 

 [Volley 



{Rataplan 

 Hybla 



r Mango or 

 -| Lanercost 

 t Queen Mary 



rVoltigeur 

 iMrs. Ridgway 



Feronia 

 1863 



rThe Flying 

 Flying Duchess-^ Dutchman 

 I Merope 



/■Windhound or 

 I Melbourne 

 "I Alice 



1^ Hawthorne 

 ( Stockwell 



(^ Honeysuckle 



1853 



^Thormanby 

 1857 



■Woodbine 

 1860 



f Camel 

 \ Banter 

 /Dr. Syntax 

 (^Ardrossan mare 

 (Humphrey Clinker 

 (Cervantes mare 

 f Voltaire 

 \^ Martha Lynn 

 /The Baron 

 (^ Pocahontas 

 f Provost 

 (Otisma 

 (Liverpool 

 \Otis 

 r Gladiator 

 \ Plenipotentiary 

 \ mare 

 f Voltaire 

 (Martha Lynn 

 /Birdcatcher 

 \Nan Dayrell 

 (Bay Middleton 

 \Barbelle 

 /Voltaire 

 (Juniper mare 

 f Pantaloon 

 ( Phyrne 

 /Muley Moloch 

 (Rebecca 

 /The Baron 

 (Pocahontas 

 / Touchstone 

 (Beeswing 



The overthrow of so tremendous a favourite as 

 Friar's Balsam created a profound impression, and the 

 amount of money lost over him would have built a 

 war-ship. Though a horse of small stature, he was a 

 splendid specimen of the thoroughbred. He left ojff in 

 his two-year-old season with an exceptionally brilliant 

 reputation of being the best of his year; and as it was 

 taken for granted that he had wintered well, the 

 assumption was that there was nothing in the Two 

 Thousand to extend him. Reports from Kingsclere 

 from time to time had been most favourable, and not 

 only did John Porter consider him one of the best 

 horses he ever had in his stable, but a short time prior 



