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And if we are to consider breeding as well as racing records, we must give 

 Newminster to Beeswing ; Thormanby to Alice Hawthorn ; Ormonde to Lily 

 Agnes. It will be right, too, to remember that Morganette must be credited both 

 with Ard Patrick and with Galtee More, and therefore joins that select band 

 of matrons which contains Penelope, clam of Whalebone and Whisker; Flyer, 

 dam of Rhadamanthus and Daedalus; H or alia, clam of Archduke and Paris; 

 Arethusa, dam of Williamsons Ditto and Pan; Emma, dam of Mundig and 

 Cotherstone ; and Perdita II., dam of Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee. Nor 



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should the claims of that remarkable mare, Princess of Wales, be forgotten in 

 this connection ; for in five consecutive years she bred five own brothers and 

 sisters, all winners Albert Victor, Louise Victoria, Victoria Alexandra, George 

 Frederick, and Maud Victoria. Taking breeding and racing together, perhaps 

 Cobweb, Crucifix, Beeswing, Mendicant, Alice Hawthorn, and Blink Bonny may be 

 said to have been the best of the nineteenth century ; and no consideration of 

 modern mares would be complete without a glance across the Channel at such 

 flyers as Fillc de I' Air, Plaisanterie, Kincsem, and M. Abeille's La Camargo. 



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