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mark, that every one of the foremost successful of modern 

 English Stallions in this Country, which hare most decidedly 

 hit with our old stock, — Leviathan, Sarpcdon, Priam, and 

 Glencoe, — all trace back to several crosses of Herod blood ; 

 Glencoe and Priam not less than three or four times each to 

 crosses of Partner blood, and directly several times to the 

 Godolphin Barb, or Arabian, which are the very strains from 

 which our Virginian stock derives its peculiar excellence. It 

 is further worthy of remark, that two Stallions have decidedly 

 hit with the importe.d English mare. Reel, as proved by her 

 progeny, Lecompte and Prioress, respectively to Boston and 

 Sovereign. Now Reel, through Glencoe, Catton, Gohanna, and 

 Smolcnsko, has herself no less than seven distinct strains of 

 Herod blood. Boston traces directly through Timaleon, Sir 

 Archy, Diomed, Florizel, to Herod. Sovereign, also, through 

 Emilius, his sire, has Herod on both lines as his paternal and 

 maternal g. g. g. sire ; and Tartar, the sire of Herod, a third 

 time in one remove yet further back. This goes to justify the 

 opinion of Stonehenge, that the recurrence to the same origi- 

 nal old strains of blood, when such strains have been suffi- 

 ciently intermixed and rendered new by other more recent 

 crosses, is not injurious, but of great advantage ; and that, on 

 the whole, it is better, ceteris puribus, to do such, than to try 

 experiments with extreme out-crosses." 



Did space allow, something might be said of in-and-in breed- 

 ing, out-crossing, the advantages and disadvantages of eachj 

 the causes of a " hit," but these topics must now be passed 

 over. The importance of health and soundness in both dam 

 and sire, is now generally admitted. Defects from accidental 

 causes, as blindness from over-feeding or over-driving, they not 



