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Darley Arabian and Eclipse, and is identical with that of 



Hermit as far as Newminster. This horse, besides siring 



Hermit, gave us another great racehorse, and perhaps an 



even greater sire, in Lord Clifden, whose greatest son, from 



the breeder's point of view, was Hampton. It will be as well 



to repeat the sire line so as to make everything clear as 



follows : — 



Eclipse 



Pot-8-os 



Waxy 



Whalebone 



Camel 



Touchstone 



Newminster 



Lord Clifden 



Hampton. 



Newminster, who was out of the famous North -country 

 mare Beeswing, was the property of the late Mr, Anthony 

 Nichol, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and like his sire Touchstone 

 he won the St. Leger. His son, Lord Clifden, followed in 

 his footsteps twelve years afterwards, and this horse was a 

 great stud success, and in his time sired no fewer than four 

 St. Leger winners — Hawthornden, Wenlock, Petrarch, and 

 Jannette. He never got a Derby winner or a winner of 

 the One Thousand, but Petrarch won the Two Thousand, 

 and Jannette the Oaks ; and Petrarch is responsible for 

 two Oaks winners in Busybody and Miss Jummy, and for 

 a sensational St. Leger winner in Throstle, who, starting at 

 50 to I, beat the Derby winner Ladas by half a length. 

 Indeed it would appear as if the descendants of Newminster 

 had a sort of right to the great Doncaster race at one 

 time ; but of late years the descendants of Isonomy and 

 St. Simon have had their innings, and curiously enough 

 all three of Hampton's Derby winners failed to add the 

 Doncaster race to their Epsom victories. I shall have some- 

 thing more to say about Petrarch. 



Hampton and his descendants are deservedly at the head 

 of the Lord Clifden line of Newminster, and therefore must 



