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PotSos], and was both gluttonous and thick-fleshed, and got splendid coachers. But 

 his two sons Physician and Hetnian Platoff, the latter out of a Comus mare, were better ; 

 and it was by the latter that Cossack, a chestnut from a Priam mare, was sired, who 

 won the Derby of 1847. Voltaire was a brown, with a fine barrel and a ringbone on 

 the off fore-foot, foaled in 1826 out of a Phantom mare, with Matchem blood in him. He 

 sired Charles XII. who won the St Leger after a dead heat with Euclid, son of 

 Emilius ; Semiseria, the quickest of all his get, who showed her speed not only by 

 beating The Cure at Newmarket, but by her famous match with Queen of the Gipsies; 

 and Voltigcur (his dam Martha Lynn by a son of Cation], who had all the Blacklock 

 build in ribs and neck, as Sir Edwin Landseer's painting of him (with his cat) very 

 clearly shows ; he defeated the unbeaten Flying Dutchman for the Doncaster Cup. 

 The best of his get were Vedette, Buckstone and Skirmisher. 



Harking back again to Eclipse we find two more of his sons still left to deal with, 

 Mercury and 'Joe Andrews. Mercury was from Colonel O' Kelly's famous Old Tartar 

 mare, dam of Jtipiter, Volunteer and Queen Mab, and great-grand-daughter of the 

 Byerly Turk, her dam by a grandson of the Godolphin Arabian. He was the sire of 

 Gohanna who was, like Waxy, out of a Herod mare, but was far less stylish, and got 

 great power on a short leg with an average of 15 hands i inch, broad foreheads, and 

 a big eye. By Gohanna was the bay Golumpus foaled in 1802 from a Woodpecker 

 mare, her dam by Trenlham. His son Cation, another bay (1809), was the first foal 

 of Lucy Gray ; he was a stout, well-seasoned horse with capital legs, and was sire of 

 Mulatto, of Mundig (out of Emma by Whisker}, of Tarrare, of Royal Oak (sire of 

 Slane), and of Princess. Mulatto won the famous Doncaster Cup race at which Fleur- 

 de-Lys, Mcmnon, Actceon, Long-waist, and Tarrare were in the field. 



The bay Joe Andrews (originally named Dennis-oh /) was the sire of Dick 

 Andrews (1794), a long, lean horse (from a Highflyer mare), with a head full of 

 character, who gave Tramp and Altisidora to the English Turf. Tramp, a good 

 level bay of 15.2, was foaled in 1810 from a Golianna mare, and was wonderful at 

 four miles. At York, on May I7th, 1814, when the property of Mr. Watts, he beat 

 Sir W. Maxwell's grey horse Viscount by Stamford (five years, 8st. ylbs., W. Peirse), 

 when he was four years old (yst. I2lbs., J. Jackson), for the Gold Cup at York, when 

 the betting was 2 to i on Viscount for the three-mile race. At the August meeting, 

 over the same course, his sister, Altisidora, won for Mr. Watts a match against Lord 

 Fitzwilliam's b.c. Camelopard for 500 guineas, two miles, Sst. 2lbs., and another 

 race of the same distance (which she completed in 4 min. 43 sec.) against Cotton, 

 Langold (by Stamford}, and Georgiana (by Selim), both when she was a four-year- 



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