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severest courses. It is not necessary to enter at length 

 into details of this particular branch of the family, but 

 it should be emphasised that the Galopin - St. Simon 

 characteristics of appearance, and occasionally of temper, 

 are entirely wanting in the horses of Speculum descent. 

 To take two recent examples, Clorane filled the eye as 

 a far grander horse than anything we have ever seen by 

 Galopin or St. Simon. He was no bigger than Persimmon 

 — not so big in fact — in the matter of inches, but he carried 

 more substance and was much more symmetrically built, 

 standing over more ground, with nothing of the " short, 

 high" style about him. Clorane is absolutely one of the 

 handsomest of modern thoroughbreds, and formed a perfect 

 picture when in training. At the same time he always 

 looked more like a Stockwell than a Blacklock horse, and 

 so, too, did Amphion, another beautiful horse, whose dam 

 was by Hermit out of a Rataplan mare. Again, Amphion's 

 son, Dieudonne, is a perfect little gentleman to look at, 

 though he has just a slight suspicion of weakness about 

 his neck. Perhaps the Hagioscopes (at all events some 

 of them) are more of the usual Blacklock type, but most 

 certainly a majority of the horses in direct tail male from 

 Speculum are not, and this is probably caused by the fact 

 that Galopin was more inbred to Blacklock than was the 

 case with Speculum, the latter having been out of a Touch- 

 stone mare, while Galopin's maternal grandam was by 

 Voltaire, who was also the grandsire of Vedette. 



Another line of the Darley Arabian, of which little is 

 heard in direct continuity just now, came through Whisker, 

 Harkaway, and King Tom. Taking them from Eclipse 

 downwards, the sires were — 



Eclipse 



Pot-8-os 



Waxy 



Whisker 



Economist 



Harkaway 



King Tom 



Kingcraft. 



