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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



sent out of the country, though some came back in Crafton. Wild Dayrell's son The 

 Rake has indeed transmitted it throug-h Grey Leg, but if anything is to be done with 

 Herod blood in England it is getting fairly evident that we must get it through the 

 Fisherman and Glencoe branches which have been refreshed in Australia and America 

 respectively. The fashionable success of Galopin blood has for the moment swamped 

 the Herods ; but it would be little less than fatal to let so great a line die out entirely. 



Already in 1898, of the seventy-eight best stallions advertised in the United 

 Kingdom, Eclipse was responsible for sixty-four, forty-one being through PotSos, 

 the others through King Fergus and Joe Andrews. Matchem was only represented 

 (through Melbourne, West Australian and Solon} by Kilwarlin, Morion, Marco, Sir 

 Vistoand Winkfield. Herod was only represented in eight stallions, viz., Crafton, Des- 

 pair, Dog Rose, Grey Leg, Macheath, Mac/nahon, Morglay, and Ocean Wave, these being 

 through Castrel, Pantaloon, and Thormanby, and through Ion, Wild Dayrell, Buc- 

 caneer and See Saw. If we take the first eighteen stallions from 1894 to 1897 

 inclusive, all trace to Eclipse, except Despair who comes from Herod. 



This leads me naturally to the last and greatest of the three great sires, Eclipse, 

 the great-great-grandson of The Darley Arabian in direct male descent, who must 

 have a chapter to himself. 



Colonel O'Kelly and his Jockey. 



