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conclusion. To all my readers who are acquainted with the 

 general appearance of the sons and daughters — especially the 

 daughters — of St. Simon, it will be no news that a majority 

 of them have quarters which droop towards the tail. The 

 fillies especially have this peculiarity, and it is by no means 

 uncommon with the colts. La Fleche, Amiable, Utica, and 

 Goletta (by Galopin, the sire of St. Simon) may be quoted 

 as examples of the drooping -quarter sort, and if the de- 

 scription of the make and shape of Voltigeur just quoted is 

 correct, as there is no reason to doubt its being, then the 

 peculiarity must be derived from Voltigeur. At the same 

 time not all of Voltigeur's descendants are cast in the same 

 mould, for there never was a horse with grander quarters 

 than Clorane, and his are of the square rather than the 

 drooping type. Clorane is directly descended from Voltigeur, 

 through Castlereagh, Speculum, and Vedette. 



After his sale-ring failure at Doncaster Voltigeur was sent 

 back to Hart, and he would probably have been cut for the 

 hunting field had not a neighbour of his owner persuaded 

 the late Mr. " Billy " Williamson to allow him to be sent to 

 Lord Zetland's stable at Richmond, of which Mr. Williamson 

 was then the manager. Accordingly he was lent to Mr. 

 Williamson ; but as he cleaned out the stable twice in 

 private trials shortly afterwards he passed into Lord Zetland's 

 hands at ^1,500. He won the Derby of 1850, beating the 

 Guineas winner, Pitsford, by a length, and he followed up 

 the form by winning the St. Leger three months later, after 

 first running a dead-heat with Russborough. 



Two days afterwards Voltigeur was pitted against The 

 Flying Dutchman — who had won the Derby of the previous 

 year — in the Doncaster Cup, then run over a course of two 

 miles and a half — half a mile further than the present 

 distance — and to general surprise he upset the odds of 4 to i 

 which were laid on Lord Eglinton's horse. It was a close 

 fit between the pair, and the result gave rise to much con- 

 troversy, it being asserted that Marlow had not ridden The 

 Flying Dutchman to orders and that the race had been run 

 at a false pace. The outcome was that the pair were 

 matched to run two miles at York in the following summer. 



