A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Lollypop, whose third for the Stewards' Cup with lost, is the best on record for 

 that race. As Princess of Wales, our present beloved Queen started the modern 

 fashion of ladies going to Newmarket by her visit in the summer of 1881 to 

 the Earl and Countess Cadogan at Rutland Cottage, whence she drove across 



the Heath, in one of the Cadogan 

 carriages and four, to the July 

 Meeting behind the Ditch. 



The effect that English breeds 

 and English climate have had upon 

 the Arab type suggests one of the 

 most interesting problems raised by 

 such a history as that contained in 

 the present volumes. In my own 

 opinion the English thoroughbred, 

 of the modern type of Ormonde, 

 Ard Patrick, and Sceptre, can best 

 be kept up to their high standard 

 by means of continued and careful 

 reimportation of English stock from 

 those newer countries to which 



famous stallions have from time to time been imported. Examples of strains, 

 more or less weak in England, which have already been fortified by reimported 

 stock of the same blood from other pastures, may be found in the 

 West Australian line, with Kings Courier from the United States 

 of America, and Australian Star from Australia ; the Ithuricl line 

 (of which we have only Ragimunde, Son of a Gun, Toisoii a" Or, and 

 Tomahawk] with Aurum, Carbine, Gold Medallist, Mousquetaire, 

 Sternchaser, and Trenton, not to mention future possibilities like 

 Bistonian, Fowling Piece, Pistol, or Wargrave ; the Whisker line 

 with Abercorn, Ilchester, Kirkham, Stoccado, Merman, and Patron; 

 the Faugh-a-Ballagh line with Berzak and Don Alonzo ; the 

 Stockwell line, through The Marquis, with Newhaven II., and the Pantaloon line 

 through Nabot. The line of Diomed is extinct here ; though the imported horses, 

 Americus and Pactohis, may revive it. 



I have noticed the proved difficulty of obtaining cavalry remounts from those 



Mr. Wilfrid Blunfs Arab " Azrek." 



A Roman racer. 



l'"rom a Gra'co-Roinan 

 <v of the first cen- 

 titrv A.L). , in the 

 possession of Mr. C. 

 Xeli'ton-Robinson. 



