320 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



courage seemed inexhaustible. He once tied up Haphazard 'in a four-mile trial at 

 Lewes at four o'clock in the morning, and won the King's Plate that afternoon after a 

 punishing race with Walton. He was a difficult beast to ride, being rather inanimate 

 and dead-skinned, with something of the look of a coach-horse, and he stood very 

 much over on one knee. One of his sons was Andrew, to whom Belvoir owed its 

 Derby winner Cad/and. Through Muley Moloch, the beautiful Alice Hawthorn 

 traced back to him, a mare who was very much inbred to the Darley Arabian. From 

 his son Muley came Little Wonder (Derby, 1840), a brilliant bay of 14 hands 3 inches. 

 But far the best of Orvilles stock was Emilius (a Derby winner like his brother 

 Octaviu^), who was a bay horse out of Emily by Stamford by Sir Peter, and stood 

 about 15 hands 2 inches, with an almost faultless symmetry of build, but a plain head 

 like his sire. All his get were good-looking, and from Recovery, the handsomest, was 

 modelled the horse for the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. Two sons 

 of Emilius, Priam and Plenipotentiary (a rich chestnut, over 15 hands 2 inches), were 

 Derby winners ; his daughter Oxygen won the Oaks ; his son Mango won the St. 

 Leger. Priam (foaled in 1827) was a bay from Cressida, sister to Sir Charles 

 Bunbury's famous Eleanor by Whiskey, and among his daughters were Miss Lefty, 

 Industry and Crucifix, all winners of the Oaks, the latter having secured both Two 

 Thousand and One Thousand as well. Her pedigree goes back to the Darley 

 Arabian through Marske, and through Flora to King Fergus, to whose son Hamble- 

 tonian I must now turn. 



This magnificent bay, winner of the St. Leger of 1795, was out of a Highflyer 

 mare, her dam Monimia by Matchem. His best sons were Whit clock and the light 

 grey Camillus through whom came Rowton and Virago. IVIiitelock's great son was 

 Blacklock (his dam by Coriander, a son of PotSos], a rather plain and coarse animal, 

 with astride that required half-a-mile to settle it, and an ugly head. But he had in 

 him four strains of Eclipse, four of Herod, two of Matchem and four of Cade, and at 

 the stud this wonderful blend of blood soon showed its excellence, and is proving its 

 vigour still in St. Simon, son of Galopin. BlacklocK S best sons were Velocipede, 

 Voltaire, Brutandorf, all of whom showed great depth from withers to shoulder- 

 points, muscular neck, and immense roundness of rib from the spine. Velocipede (1825) 

 was a chestnut, his dam (a half-sister to Camarine) was by Junipers, son of Whiskey. 

 He had a rough Roman head with a white blaze and a flesh-coloured nose, and first 

 went to the stud at Ainderby under the Hambleton hills. He sired Amato, winner of 

 the Derby of 1838, and Queen of Trumps, a slashing brown who won the Oaks and 

 St. Leger of 1835, her dam by Castrel. Brutandorf was the son of Mandane (by 



