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valuable as history alone, and should be considered in relation to the past rather 

 than the future ; as a record of certain relationships and descents, rather than as 

 a guide to fresh alliances. I am inclined to think that the shifting in the original 

 order of his families already shown in the table given for 1903, will tend to increase 

 as the years go on, until it is seen that the brilliant exposition he published in " The 

 British Thoroughbred Horse" is indeed a monumental record of the facts of racing 

 up to 1901, and as such will always have its value, but that it is not the breeder's 

 gospel of salvation which Mr. Bruce-Lowe thought he had discovered. 



If we take the male lines, for the sake of contrast, it may be of interest to see 

 how the blood of the Godolphin Arabian, the Byerly Turk, and the Darley 

 Arabian, whom I have 

 described in previous 

 chapters, came out in 

 their descendants at 

 the Ascot Meeting of 

 1903 through Matchem, 

 Herod, and Eclipse. In 

 these days Matchem 

 blood generally means 

 Melbourne mares in 

 this country, though 

 Kingston has freshened 

 it in America, and, on 

 this side, with King's 

 Courier, who now stands 



at Stetchworth ; and there are other young sons of Kingston now in England, like 

 Lancashire, Bobrinski, and Surbiton, to be reckoned with ; Atistralian Star may 

 also benefit it in the future ; nor must Chaleureux be forgotten. Among Ascot 

 winners it was represented only by Kroonstad, who traces through Kilwai'lin to 

 Melbourne. Herod is far stronger abroad than here, since the exportation of Glencoe, 

 Gladiator, The Flying Dutchman, Fisherman, and Buccaneer, and was represented 

 at Ascot by two winners only, Bass Rock (son of Grey Leg, and so through Ion 

 and Highflyer}, and by the French Arizona (son of Upas, and so through The 

 Flying Dutchman to Woodpecker}. Another direct descendant of " the Dutchman " 

 is the French Pastisson, who stands at Cobham. Dinna Forget, who stands in 

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By permission of" Country Life." 



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