HERMIT AND ISINGLASS 



Philosophy, and Tristan all did him more or less 

 good service. Thus it came to pass that in 1886 

 his subscription was further raised to the then 

 unprecedented figure of 250 guineas, and in 1888 

 he was restricted to five public mares. Timothy, 

 Friar's Balsam, Heaume, and Alicante were about 

 the best of his latest produce, and the old horse 

 died in April 1890. A full list of the amount won 

 by his stock seems worthy of reproduction. 



* First on List of Winning Sires. 



Altogether Hermit's stock won £351,121 :8s. 

 in stakes in England, a colossal amount, which 

 is the more extraordinary because "ten thousand 

 pounders" were quite unknown when he was 

 in the zenith of his success. Moreover Tristan, 

 Gamin, Bavarde, Alicante, etc., did him excellent 

 service in France, where they landed upwards of 

 £30,000 in stakes. Thus it is very remarkable 

 that not one of his sons should have made a real 

 success at the stud, though Ascetic and others of 

 them have given us some grand steeplechasers. 



There is comparatively little that I can write 

 about Isinglass, a bay colt by Isonomy out of 

 Deadlock, for really his entire story is contained 

 in the Calenda?^ of 1892 and the three succeeding 



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