THE FOUNDATION BROOD MARES OF AUSTRALIA 1 1 



her descendants much more markedly than does Gulnare. Yattendon 

 was the great exponent of the family, but many good horses came 

 from the same line, such as Camden, Cassandra, Dainty Ariel, Survivor, 

 and so on, and there are a goodly number of mares still with us from 

 one of which the ancient glories of the house may readily be revived. 

 Merino, Fairy and Octavia are practically dead, but the Cape mare, through 

 Moss Rose, had many good descendants in the early days, and she may yet 

 again come to the front. 



There is a very grave doubt, however, what the ultimate origin of this 

 useful mare might have been, for the Cape mare was thirty years old when she 

 is said to have dropped Moss Rose, and this is a very unusual, if not unpre- 

 cedented, age at which a clean bred mare could drop a foal. Of those mares 

 hnported in the 'forties, Falklandina still exists. Ritualist, the sire of some 

 useful jumpers of to-day, comes from her, and Maddelina, Torah, Terlinga 

 and Monastery each claim her as their ancestress. It is a South Australian 

 family. Quadroon was a live wire until of recent years, when she seems to 

 have weakened considerably. Chuckster, Grey Gown, Hyacinth, Kit Nubbles, 

 Metford, Oreillet, Riverton, Swiveller and Trenchant are amongst the best 

 moderns who run back straight to this old dame. 



Paraguay, with a very limited list of foalings to her name, will probably 

 live for ever in Australian turf lore, as, of her two sons, Whalebone and Sir 

 Hercules, the latter has made a very deep mark in the honour list. Miss Lane 

 we have seen as the founder of the Madcap clan. She was incestuously bred, 

 her sire. Rector, a son of Muley, having produced her from a Muley mare. 

 The Giggler was at one time full of promise, but with the failure of MenschikofF 

 at the stud she seems to be fading into oblivion. And the last of the 1 840 

 to 1850 immigrants which we will mention here is Nora Creina. Our reason 

 for paying particular attention to her is that we have authentic notes con- 

 cerning her journey hither, and as one voyage is not unlike another, we may, 

 from this one example, receive a general idea of the difficulties and pleasures 

 of transportation at that time from the Old Country. Mr. William Pomeroy 

 Green, in the year 1842, chartered a ship from Plymouth, and brought his 

 whole family, and all his household goods, along with him to this new land. 

 I do not know whether the vessel was a brig, a barque, or a ship — most 

 probably a barque — but, at all events, she was only of 500 tons register. 



Into this little thing was squeezed a family consisting of the father and 

 mother, six sons, one daughter, a governess, a butler, a carpenter, with his 

 family, the head groom, a second groom, a herdsman, a "useful boy," a 

 gardener, a laundress, a man cook, with his wife, a housemaid, and a nurse, a 

 young and inexperienced surgeon, two young friends of the family named 

 Richard Singleton and James Ellis, Mr. Walker, a Sydney merchant and his 

 sister, a Mr. Wray from Devonshire — an invalid — Mr. William Stawell, after- 

 wards famous as Sir William Stawell, Chief Justice of Victoria, as well as all 

 the crew and live stock. 



The latter consisted of two thoroughbreds, Rory O'More, by Bird- 

 catcher out of Nora Creina's dam, Nora Creina herself, by Sir Edward 

 Codrington from a mare by Drone, her dam Mary Anne, by Waxy Pope out 

 of Witch, by Sorcerer; a hunter named Pickwick; a favourite mare of Mr. 

 Green's Taglioni; a Durham cow christened "Sarah" — and Mr. Stawell took 

 out two bulls. 



Here was prospective romance for you, and as much of it as you please. 

 Mr. Stawell, of course, married Miss Green, and their sons are amongst the 

 best-known, most trusted and well-liked of all Victorians of the present day. 



