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The last-named won the Derby in 1870, and about 

 the same time King Tom had three Oaks winners — 

 Tormenter, Hippia, and Hannah. The family is now 

 little known in this country, though it has done well both 

 in Australia and America, and from the last - named 

 country it sent a fine representative in Foxhall a few 

 years ago, 



THE LINE OF BYERLY TURK 



Besides the line of the Darley Arabian, handed down 

 through Eclipse and his sons, there are two other male lines 

 of blood derived from Eastern sires which are to the fore at 

 the present day — though in a lesser degree than that of the 

 Darley Arabian. These are the line of the Byerly Turk, 

 handed down through Herod, and the line of the Godolphin 

 Barb transmitted through Matchem. 



The line of sires from the Byerly Turk is as follows — 



Byerly Turk 



Jigg 

 Partner 

 Tartar 

 Herod. 



The pedigree of Herod is very incomplete. He was bred in 

 1758 by the Duke of Cumberland, and was by Tartar out of 

 Cypron by Blaze, who was by Flying Childers, and therefore 

 a grandson of the Darley Arabian. Tartar was out of 

 Milwea by Fox, a great-grandson of the D'Arcy White 

 Turk, but Milwea's dam, Milkmaid, was bred from parents 

 about whom little or nothing is known. Her sire was Snail 

 (pedigree unknown) and her dam was Shield's Galloway 

 (bred by Mr. Curwen, of Workington, Cumberland), about 

 whose ancestry no information is forthcoming. There are 

 several unknown sources in Partner's pedigree, and several 

 more in that of Cypron, so that really it is not possible to 

 trace Herod even so far as Eclipse is traced, but the horse 

 was a good runner, a great stayer, and a most successful sire, 

 his stock having won over ;^20o,ooo in nineteen years. From 

 Herod came the famous Highflyer, who was never beaten, 



