ECLIPSE" AND THE MODERN '1HOROUGHBRKD. 



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Arabian, Bay Bolton, Cur-wen' 's Bay Barb, and others. It was out of Guiccioli that 

 Birdcatcher was bred by her union to Sir Hercules, the coal-black son of Whalebone, 

 a round-made horse of barely 15.2, with a small star on his forehead, a few grey 

 hairs at the butt of his tail, and his body ticked with grey hairs. In Ireland 

 Sir Hercules also begat Faugk a Ballagh (St. Leger and Cesarewitch, 1844), Maria, 

 Cruiskeen (Cesarewitch, 1838), and many others. In England his offspring were 

 Coronation (Derby, 1841), The Corsair, Gemma ai Vergy, Knight of the Shire, 

 Leamington, and others. He was twenty-eight when he begat Lifeboat, and thirty-one 



(The figures cm the left are Trotter, Hardy, and Thomson, 

 in that order. Tod holds the bridle.) 



The Earl of Darlington's "Muley Moloch" by 

 " John Bull " out of "Mistletoe " by " PotSos." 



when Sir John Shelley bred another Sir Hercules from him, which shows his great 

 vitality, inherited not merely from PotSos, but from his dam Peri, who was closely 

 inbred to Eclipse. There is no doubt that Guiccioli was a most appropriate mate for 

 him, as Birdcatcher proved certainly worthy to hand on the strain to The Baron and to 

 Stockwell. It is also in the blood of such modern sires as Bendigo, Brag, Isonomy, 

 Master Kildare, Melton, Minting, Robert the Devil, Saraband and Springfield. For 

 The Baron as well as his dam, the English Turf is indebted to Mr. Watts, of Jockey 

 Hall, Curragh, a Devonshire veterinary who settled in Ireland, and thoroughly 

 believed in the cross between Blacklock and Waxy. It happened that in 1837 there 



