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Calash (dam of Whiskey), Maria (dam of Waxy), Evergreen, Faith, Bordeaux, Tuberose, 

 Telemachus, and others, besides the dams of Gohanna, jBeningbrough, Coriander, 

 Dungannon, and Precipitate, with many more. 



Herod's blood has chiefly been handed down to us through the lines of Woodpecker 

 (1775), out of Miss Ramsden by Cade; and of Highflyer (1774), who was out of 

 Rachel by Blank ; so that both traced back to the Godolphin Arabian as well as the 

 Bverly Turk, and Woodpecker has some of the third great Eastern sire in him as 

 well, through Lord Lonsdale's Darley Arabian mare, the great grandam of Miss 

 Ramsden. 



Woodpecker was himself a large coarse horse with wide lop ears, and for some time 

 Lord Egremont of Petworth inbred him to Herod blood persistently. But it was out 

 of Misfortune, an unknown daughter of Dux (a son of Matchem} that Woodpecker 

 produced his greatest hit in Buzzard, the sire (out of the Alexander mare, a grand- 

 daughter of Eclipse) of Bronze, winner of the Oaks, and of that famous trio, Castrel 

 (1801), Selim (1802), and Rubens (1805). Castrel was a splendid chestnut of sixteen 

 hands, and would have had few to beat him on the Turf, but that he was a roarer. 

 At the stud he got Merlin in 1815, whom Lord Foley bought as a two-year-old for 

 2,ooo guineas. He broke his leg running with Tiresias and became incurably savage, 

 though a good racer. He was destroyed at Riddlesworth after savaging and killing 

 the stud-groom. Far greater as a sire was Castrel 's second son, John Scott's favourite, 

 Pantaloon, a big chestnut, covered with dark spots, who had his greatest successes out 

 of Lord Westminster's Phryne by Touchstone, viz., Elthiron (1846), Windhound (1847), 

 Miserrima (1848), Hobble Noble (184(5), and The Reiver (1850). His son, Sleight of 

 Hand (1836), was bought at Sir Tatton Syke's sale for sixty guineas, and turned out 

 to be the fastest Mr. Parr ever trained. His daughter, the bright bay Ghuznce, the 

 very model of a useful short-legged one, and only half an inch over fifteen hands, was 

 out of Languish, who also had Herod blood in her through Highflyer ; Ghuznee won 

 the Oaks in 1841, in the same year that Satirist (a bay brown also by Pantaloon) beat 

 Coronation for the St. Leger, and Lanercosl for the Gold Vase at Ascot. Through 

 Windhound the blood of Herod was transmitted, by way of Woodpecker, Buzzard, and 

 Pantaloon, to Thormanby (Derby, 1860), a chestnut son of the famous bay mare 

 Alice Hawthorn, whose sire Muley Moloch was a direct male descendant of Eclipse 

 through King Fergus, and whose dam Rebecca was by Eclipse* s great grandson Tramp, 

 with the blood of Mandane and PotSos in her as well. It may therefore be fairly 

 argued that the Darley Arabian has quite as much to say as the Byerly Turk in the 



