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Doyle. She was then in foal to Collar. Doyle bred 

 a winner out of her by Orme, and the following year 

 mated her with St Frusquin, to whom she produced 

 Rosedrop, winner of the Oaks and dam of Gainsborough, 

 who fills at a 400 guineas' fee. 



Rosedrop, so far from taking after her dam in being 

 on the small side, errs if anything in bulk and magnitude. 

 She was a great mare on the turf, and beat Willonyx 

 fairly and squarely over one and a half miles at York, 

 with the weights 6 Ib. in his favour. 



It would perhaps be irksome to pursue this subject 

 of mares cheaply bought and great stock resulting, but 

 I may just mention Lowland Aggie, bought at the 

 December sales, Newmarket, for 35 guineas, and two 

 years later developing into the dam of Lomond, who 

 was certainly the best colt of his year, though he went 

 amiss as a three-year-old and could never run up to his 

 form at that age. 'He showed at Ascot the following 

 year that he had retained his form, and later on he 

 has become a very successful sire. 



Now all such records as these are very tempting 

 to small men, who think they see in them a royal road 

 to riches. Blue Tit cost only 30x5 guineas, and her 

 last yearlings have made 11,500, 14,500, and 7700 

 guineas respectively. It may happen indeed that a 

 man with no knowledge of breeding or blood stock 

 will pick up a little gold mine in the shape of a brood 

 mare for a trifling sum. To such men the game is a 

 lottery indeed, but people of large experience, unless 

 they are constrained by lack of capital, will not lay 

 themselves out to secure cheap bargains. If what 

 you know to be good is going cheap, buy her by all 

 means, but not because she is cheap. 



