"MATCHEM," "HEROD," AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. 



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this material, crossed with the imported Eastern stock, produced something much 

 finer than either. The supply appeared when the demand had become pressing. 

 What they already had in endurance they improved in speed, and what was fast was 

 made to last as well. 



It would take away much of the romance of the Turf, and almost all interest in 

 its history, if breeding were an exact science. Such awkward yet inspiriting facts are 

 constantly recurring as the sudden appearance of a good one after all hope of fast 

 foals out of a great mare had been abandoned. These discoveries have by no means 



"Martin " by " Cailt," his dam by ' Crab." 



been confined to the Tartar mare sold so cheaply to Colonel O'Kelly, which turned 

 out to be Worth as many thousands, after she was twenty, as she had cost sovereigns 

 to her clever purchaser. Penelope, who won eighteen races for the Duke of Grafton, 

 was the dam of Whalebone, Web, Woful and Whisker ; Poca/wntas, a bad roarer and an 

 indifferent performer on the Turf, became the dam of Stockwcll, Rataplan, and Kmg 

 Tom, of Ayacanora, Auricula and Auracaria. Out of another mare, who was so 

 crippled that she could never race, was born a common-looking son who was never 

 in perfect health and was often lame. Among his victories were the Two Thousand, 



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