xiv CONTENTS 



Epsom trainers — The Midlands — Exton Park — Hednesford — Stanton — 

 Royston — Thetford — Mr. Musker's successes with two-year-olds — Northern 

 and Southern rivalry — Elsey of Baumber — Yorkshire training grounds — 

 Malton — Williaiii I 'Anson — His successes — Self-Sacrifice — Her St. Leger 

 trial — Chittabob — I' Anson's purchases of platers . Pages 217-266 



Chapter IX 



BREEDING 



Uncertainty of breeding thoroughbreds — Unaccountable barrenness in mares 

 — Proportion of foals to mares — Half-bred foals more hardy — Practice of 

 early stinting — The result of two-year-old racing — Noted two-year-old 

 winners — Four-figure yearlings — A big lottery — The prices — La Fleche, 

 Doncaster, and St. Simon — Table of the failures — Wealthy owners the 

 cause of high prices — How they go to work at sales — No yearling worth 

 more than 1,000 guineas — Fashionable blood — The figure system — 

 Bargains in ready-made racehorses — Good ones bought out of Selling 

 Plates — Dispersal of big studs and private sales . . Pages 267-280 



Chapter X 



LINES OF BLOOD 



Evolution of the English thoroughbred — Its origin from the East — Arabs, 

 Barbs, Turks, and Persians — Wonderful increase in size — Stamina greater 

 in Eastern breeds — Speed a modern development — Stayers more numerous 

 than suspected — Four-mile heats v. sprints — The limit of pedigrees — The 

 descent of Eclipse goes back to Eastern sires — Their mating with native 

 mares — Royal mares — Table showing pedigree of Eclipse — In-breeding — 

 Lord d'Arcy's importations — Noted descendants of Eclipse — The Bird- 

 catcher line — Isonomy — Isinglass — Janissary — The Stockwell line — Blair 

 Athol — Ormonde, Orme, and Goldfinch — Kendal and Ormonde — Which 

 was the better ? — Their private trial — Galtee More well sold for ;i^20,ooo 

 — Handsomest thoroughbred of modern times — Melton — Line of Camel 

 — The Newminster family — Hermit — His extraordinary stud career — 

 Characteristics of his stock — Hermit mares as breeders — The Hampton 

 family — Bought out of a Selling Race — His great race for the Northumber- 

 land Plate — Some of his descendants — The Touchstone line— Line of 

 Tramp — His ancestors and descendants — A line to be encouraged — Line 

 of Blacklock — The best staying family of to-day — King Fergus — Hamble- 

 tonian — Whitelock — The St. Simon-Galopin family out of a ^3 mare 

 — Descriptions of Blacklock — Voltigeur — Galopin — St. Simon — The St. 

 Simons as galloping machines — St. Simon's career — Ormonde or St. 

 Simon the better horse? — Persimmon — Coupled with Harkaway as the 

 horse of the century — Line of Herod— Four celebrated lines of descendants 

 — Line of Godolphin — Matchem to Barcaldine — West Australian — The pick 

 of England — Winning stock of Barcaldine . . Pages 281-333 



Index ..... Page 335 



