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of the foregoing with prophetic powers, and ask whether 

 he did not foresee the time when Ormonde would become 

 a member of the American stud. 



A DISTINGUISHED ROARER AT THE STUD 



1 Pocahontas, who was a bad roarer and an indifferent 

 performer on the turf, acquired the highest honours at the 

 stud. ... To recount the doings of the distinguished 

 progeny of Pocahontas would fill a volume ; but that their 

 success was in a great measure owing to the immense 

 vitality she herself possessed, and which she imparted to 

 her offspring, can hardly be doubted, when at the age of 

 twenty-five she produced from her union with Ambrose 

 (son of Touchstone) a brood mare of the fine stamp of 

 Auracaria, the noted progeny of whom comprise Stepha- 

 notis, Wellingtonia (sire of Plaisanterie, winner of the 

 Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire), Camellia (who divided 

 the Oaks with Enguerrande), Chamant (winner of the 

 Middle Park and Dewhurst Plates and the Two Thousand), 

 and Rayon d'Or (winner of the St. Leger).' — Mr. Joseph 

 Osborne, in ' The Horse-Breeders' Handbook.' 



'THE INFIRMITY' NOT TRANSMITTED 



Mr. Osborne, dealing with the thoroughbred under 

 the head of * Foreign Sources of New Blood, Climate, 

 Soil, &c.,' says : ' The first great horse I remember 

 seeing was Humphrey Clinker. I could not have been 

 much over eighteen when I went to see him in company 

 with my father, who was a large breeder of horses at 

 Dardistown Castle, county Meath. Humphrey Clinker was 

 a bay horse, standing nearly 17 hands high, sent over 

 by the Earl of Fitzwilliam to his seat in the county 

 Wicklow, for the use of the tenantry, whose breed of 

 horses he was desirous to improve. What caused me 

 most to remember him was the noise he made when led 

 out, and which was, I believe, the first case of roaring 

 known in Ireland, but so little was then heard of this 

 malady and its effects, that such excellent judges as the 

 Marquis of Sligo, Mr. Martin J. Blake, M,P. for Galway, 



