THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. Ijj 



sons, was six years old, Jigg was merely a travelling stallion 

 in Lincolnshire. Among Herod's best sons were Highflyer 

 Woodpecker, Florizel and Phenomenon. From this strain 

 we have Highflyer, Sir Peter Teazle (commonly called Sir 

 Peter), Selim, Pantaloon, Partisan, Bay Middleton, Gladiator, 

 Glaucus, Sweetmeat, The Flying Dutchman and Wild Day- 

 rell. From two mares by the Byerly Turk there are descended 

 in the female line, as the new edition of the first volume of 

 the Stud Book tells us, Bend Or, Robert the Devil, Uncas, 

 Speculum, Blue Gown, Craig Millar, Paradox, The Bard, 

 Minting, &c. 



From the Darley Arabian was descended Eclipse, and also 

 King Fergus, Pot-8-os, Waxy, Whalebone, Orville, Whisker, 

 Sir Hercules, Touchstone, Irish Bird-catcher, Lanercost, 

 Blacklock, the Baron, Rataplan, Stockwell, King Tom, and 

 Newminster, whose son was the famous Hermit. 



Lastly comes the Godolphin Arabian, said to be really a 

 Barb, and in some ways the most important of these three 

 Eastern sires. From him we get Matchem, Conductor, Hum- 

 phrey Clinker, Melbourne, West Australian, Prime Minister, 

 Knight of the Garter, Knight of Kars, &c. 



Such, then, is a necessarily imperfect outline sketch of the 

 manner in which the modern thoroughbred has been built up 

 or manufactured. In the course of his development there is 

 one fact which everyone admits he has increased in size ; 

 and having said this, we have said everything on which men 

 are universally agreed. Some people say that the modern 

 race horse is not as stout as he was. Of this opinion is 

 Mr. Joseph Osborne. In the " Horse Breeders' Handbook " 

 he says that the Irish-bred horses, Byron, Paladour and 

 Napoleon " found it no trouble to run four miles under eight 

 minutes," while on a subsequent page he quotes the Earl of 

 Stradbroke as follows : " My firm belief is that there are not 

 four horses in England now that could run over the Beacon 

 Course (4 miles i furlong 135 yards) at Newmarket within 

 eight minutes, which in my younger days I used to see con- 

 stantly done." 



