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Yellow Turk, but they were brought to this country by Lord 

 D'Arcy rather more than two hundred years ago, and were 

 located at the Sedbury stud ; and it is because the records 

 of that stud were careful to state where Eastern sires had 

 been used that we can assume that where no Eastern sire or 

 dam is named the blank implies something of English origin. 



Until quite lately one rarely met with a breeder who cared 

 to trace a pedigree, with a view to mating his mares, further 

 back than the fifth or sixth remove, and as a consequence 

 the ancestors of Eclipse and of other horses who flourished 

 more than a hundred years ago were not regarded as of the 

 least importance. Recently, however, enthusiastic students 

 of stud-book lore have gone very carefully into the matter, 

 and the latest craze is breeding according to what is known 

 as the Figure System, already referred to. 



In the meantime, in order to trace the modern thorough- 

 bred from his first origin to his present status, I must adhere 

 to Eclipse for a while, and show how many of the great lines 

 of the present day are descended from him in direct tail 

 male. From the stud point of view Eclipse got two great 

 sons, Pot-8-os* and King Fergus. Pot-8-os was the sire of 

 Waxy, whose son. Whalebone, was the sire of Sir Hercules, 

 the sire of Birdcatcher. By tabulating the lines of sires and 

 carrying them down to modern times we can trace the 

 descent of most of the more celebrated modern lines at a 

 glance. 



Eclipse 



Pot-8-os 



Waxy 



Whalebone 



Sir Hercules 



Birdcatcher" 



The Baron Oxford 



Stockwell Sterling 



Doncaster , Isonomy- 



— Bend Or I Isinglass 



Common Janissary 



Nun Nicer Jeddah 



Ormonde ^| 



Orme 

 Flying Fox 



Orvieto Goldfinch Bonavista Kendal 

 Martagon Chelandry Cyllene Galtee More 



* This name was originally spelled Potoooooooos, the less cumbersome form 

 being adopted by writers. 



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