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lions and brood mares ; but, though it seems to answer in both 

 cases, yet it is in the latter point that I think it is chiefly to be 

 recommended. 



Among the horses of the present century the following re- 

 markable instances will illustrate this position, to which great 

 numbers of less illustrious names may be added ; — 



Example 1. — In 1827 Matilda won the St. Leger very clev- 

 erly, and proved herself a superior mare by beating a large 

 •field of good horses. She was out of Juliana, who was by 

 Gohanna — son of Mercury and a Herod mare — out of Platina 

 — by Mercury, out of another daughter of Herod. — Matilda's 

 dam, therefore, was the produce of brother and sister. 



Example 2. — Cotherstone — winner of the Derby — and Mow- 

 erina — dam of West Australian — are the produce of first 

 cousins. 



Example 3.— Touchstone and Yerbena, sire and dam of 

 Ithuriel, were second cousins, taking from Selim and his sister. 



Example 4. — Priam is an example of success by in-breed- 

 ing, aftei' a series of failures in crossing. Cressida, his dam, 

 was put to Walton, Haphazard, Orville, Wildfire, Woful, Phan- 

 tom, Scud, Partisan, Little John, and Waterloo, without success. 

 At last, being served by her cousin Emilius — a son of Orville, 

 who had previously failed, not being related to her — she pro- 

 duced Priam. This horse and Plenipotentiary were both sons 

 of Emilius, the latter being the result of as direct a cross as is 

 often seen ; but the former was in-bred to Whiskey, who was 

 sire of his dam, Cressida, and also great grandsire of Emilius. 

 Now the above-mentioned two horses were both extraordinary 

 runner?; but whilst Plenipotentiary has scarcely had an aver- 

 age success as a stallion, Priam, considering the short time he 

 remained with us, has achieved an imperishable fame. See 

 genealogical table " Priam." 



Example 5. — Bay Middleton was the produce of second 

 cousins, descended Irom Williamson's Ditto and Walton, own 

 brothers, whilst Andover, his son, is the second time in with 

 the Whalebone blood, as follows ; — Web, the great-granddam of 

 Bay Middleton, is sister to both Whalebone and Whiskey, the 

 grandsire and great-grandsire of Soldier's Joy, dam of i^ndovcr. 

 He, therefore, is also the son of cousins, uniting the blood of 



