MATCHEM," "HEROD," AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. 



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It is perhaps appropriate that our considerations of Herod's line should have ended 

 in a mare. For in tail-male that line is sadly weak at the present moment. Taking 

 the first of the two great branches we have examined, the Woodpecker blood through 

 Thormanby seems to have died out in England, though in France Le Saucy is highly 

 valued and Bay Middhton" s descendants (through Flying Dutchman} are numerous, 

 with Callistrate at their head in 1900 ; in America the Glencoe stock through Hanover 

 are well to the front. Of the Highflyer blood we have scarcely more to boast about. 



Lord Derby's ' ' Sir Peter Teazle ' ' 

 (Derby, 1787). 



Glaucns is still strong, but not on this side of the Channel. Venisons line has vanished. 

 Of the Partisan stock, which the late Lord Falmouth valued so highly, we have the 

 Parmesan line in Morglay, Primrose League, Bosphonis, Favonian and Royal Flush ; 

 and the Macaroni branch is represented in Macmahon, Craig Royston, and a few 

 others. The Gladiator family is in fact far stronger in France, in Germany, and in 

 Hungary than in England, where Ponlet (grandson of Venire St. Gris) has only 

 begotten one decent representative, Limasol, winner of the Oaks. Through Wild 

 Dayrell alone is the blood of Sir Paul surviving, and in Buccaneer the best of it was 



