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matter of the excellence of such Thormanby mares as Rouge Rose, Violet, Feronia, 

 Sunshine, and Lady Morgan, while the direct male line of the Thormanby blood 

 seems to have died out, except in the case of his grandson Le Sancy, who was so 

 valued in France as to be able to command a ^oo guinea fee. He died in 1901, but 

 left some smart horses behind him. 



The chestnut Selim, a magnificent grandson of Woodpecker, was foaled in 1802, 

 and was given by the Prince to Colonel Leigh at the Royal Sale. He was good at 

 all distances, and became the sire of the Cesario filly (One Thousand, 1815), Medora 

 (Oaks, 1814), Azor (Derby, 1817), Turcoman (Two Thousand, 1827), Turquoise 

 (Oaks, 1828). From a Walton mare (her dam by Diomed, grandson of Mafc/icm) 

 Selim had a chestnut son called Langar in 1817, who had two chestnut colts out of 

 Olympia, named Elis (St. Leger, 1836) and Epirus (Derby, 1846), who was the sire of 

 the celebrated Virago. For Bay Middleton, the great rival of Elis, I must go back to 

 Selim' s greater son Sultan (1816), a splendid bay with a blaze and four white feet, 

 who was out of Bacchante, and showed her Eclipse blood, as it was thought at the 

 time, by his strong resemblance to the Darley Arabian in his deep back ribs, fine 

 head, and small ears. He lost the Derby by half a neck to Soothsayer's best son, 

 Tiresias, who seemed born to be the bane of Buzzard's stock. He broke down just 

 before the St. Leger, and passed eventually into Lord Exeter's stud, where he 

 became the sire of Beiram, Ishmael, and Jereed ; of Greenmantlc, who won the Oaks 

 in 1829, one of the famous Burghley mares which made the "narrow blue stripes " 

 a spectre to trainers for four or five years ; of the brilliant Augustus (out of Augusta 

 by Woful), who fought sadly in his gallop, but pulled off the Two Thousand of 1830 ; 

 of Galata (Oaks, 1832), and of Glencoe (1833), the speedy lowbacked chestnut (sire of 

 Pocahontas the dam of Stockwcll} whom "Tiny Edwards " loved so well, and who 

 showed the value of the Tramp blood in his dam by winning the Two Thousand 

 and the Ascot Gold Cup. Glencoe 1 s great rival was Plenipotentiary, who met him first 

 at the Craven Meeting after Glencoe had won the Riddlesworth in a canter, and it was 

 thought that Robinson would have no difficulty in settling a horse that looked like a 

 prize bullock if only he made the running hot at first. But unfortunately "Plenipo " 

 went up as soon as Conolly asked him, and beat " the fastest horse alive" by four 

 lengths, a lesson he repeated with even greater severity in the Derby when he almost 

 carried Conolly to the Durdans in sheer delight at winning ; and he was only stopped 

 in the St. Leger by the " nobblers." His blood was crossed with that of Plenipotentiary 

 in the still more famous Blair Athol, for Pocahontas by Glencoe was the dam of Stock- 



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