A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



twenty-two when he sired Beeswing out of a sixteen-year-old mare, and that his 

 famous daughter raced till she was nine and bred Newminster when she was fifteen. 

 Orville was twenty-two when the Derby winner of 1823 was foaled ; Whalebone was 

 nineteen when he sired Sir Hercules. Vedette was eighteen when Galopin was born, 

 Harkaway and Touchstone and Ion were seventeen when King Tom, Newmimter, 

 and Wild Dayrell came into the world. Springfield, West Australian, Kingston and 

 Bay Middle/on were the offspring of sixteen-year-old sires. Both sire and dam of 

 Catherine Hayes were fifteen years old. As to the mares, Pocahonlas at twelve, 

 thirteen and fourteen bred in succession Stock-well, Rataplan and King Tom. Emma 

 produced Mo-werina (dam of West Australian} when she was nineteen. The dams of 

 Beadsman, Kettledrum, Blink Bonny, Flying Dutchman, Blrdcatcher and Voltigeur 

 were all ten years old and over. These last few names remind me that we are 

 indebted to one breeder, Mr. Theobald, of Stockwell, for both the extraordinary lines 

 of Touchstone and of Stockwell, for this gentleman had bought Camel, refused all 

 offers for him after Touchstone's victories, and later on bought The Baron, whom he 

 put to Pocahontas (by Glencoe out of Marpessa), with the result of Slockwell'vn. 1849 

 and Rataplan in 1850, while King Tom was produced by the same good mare in 

 1851 to Harkaway. None of these successful and fortunate results would, I venture 

 to think, have been attained if sires and dams of four and even three years old as 

 are found nowadays had then been used. The mature animal of either sex must 

 stand a greater chance of transmitting the best qualities to posterity. 



Goino- back to the sons of Whalebone we find that Defence cannot be omitted from 



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the slightest sketch of the Eclipse blood. He was a brown foaled in 1824 out of 

 Defiance by Rubens, and was the sire of The Emperor, a chestnut foaled in 1841, who 

 won the Ascot Cup in 1844 and the Emperor's Plate in 1845. As the reputed sire 

 of Monarque, The Emperor must be considered the accepted grandsire of Gladiateur, 

 whose dam was a daughter of Gladiator by Partisan. 



The line of Whalebone through Sir Hercules has been more prolific, for it 

 continues to Irish Birdcatcher, The Baron, Stockwell, Doncaster, Bend Or, Ormonde, 

 Orme and Flying Fox in direct succession. The pedigree of Birdcatcher deserves a 

 slightly more extended notice, for it is of great and complicated interest, and unites 

 the blood of Eclipse with that of Herod through the latter's two sons Tom Tug and 

 Chanticleer. Tom Tug begat Commodore, and his son, Irish Escape, begat Flight, 

 from whose union with Bob Borfy, son of Chanticleer and a daughter of Eclipse, 

 sprang Guiccioli. Bob Booty's dam, lerne, had a curious ancestry, in which occur the 

 names of Traveller, Hartley' s Blind Horse, the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin 



