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and his best son was Sir Peter. Here the family splits up 

 as will be seen from the accompanying tables : — 



These four are the principal lines of Herod, but only the 

 Buccaneer branch seems to be doing much good in this 

 country just now. It also includes the See Saw family, best 

 represented at present by Despair, the sire of the Cambridge- 

 shire winner Comfrey, and hosts of lesser exponents of 

 winning form. From the Sweetmeat family came also 

 Cremorne and Favonius, winners of the Derby in successive 

 years, but at the moment the line looks like dying out, there 

 being only such as Poulet, Mark, Macaroon, and Favo to 

 represent it. Of course Kisber, by Buccaneer, was a very 

 great horse, and during the third quarter of the nineteenth 

 century there were many celebrated descendants of Herod 

 in tail male, but at present it looks as if all the best blood of 

 the family were centred in the females, and notably Seclusion, 

 the dam of Hermit, was of direct Herod descent. At the 

 stud The Flying Dutchman was not a success, in spite of his 

 great deeds when in training, but we had ample proof in 

 1898 that his line is not dead yet, when the French horse 

 Elf II. beat all our best long-distance runners in the Ascot 

 Cup. Elf II. (Elf he was called in France, the numerals 

 being added when he ran in England) was sold for ;^8,ooo 

 for stud purposes, and it may be that he will do something 

 to revive the line. 



There are several useful sires by See Saw in this country, 



