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the success of tlie imion of the Whalebone with the Selim 

 blood, and I maj, in addition, remark on the case of Pjrrlius 

 I., who is by Epiriis, a grandson of Selim, out of Fortress, a 

 great-granddaughter of Rubens, brother to Selim ; and also in- 

 bred to Whalebone, his dam being by Defence, the son, out of 

 Jewess, the granddaughter of that horse.. 



Example 11. — Safeguard is bred almost exactly in the same 

 way, but a still closer degree of relationship exists between his 

 sire and dam, he being by Defence — son of Defiance, by Ru- 

 bens — out of a mare by Selim, brother to Rubens, which same 

 mare is also descended from the Wellesley Grey Arabian. The 

 strongest case of success from close in-breeding, with which I 

 am acquainted, is in a son of the above horse, the steeplechaser 

 Yainhope, who is by Safeguard, a grandson of Selim, and great- 

 grandson of Rubens, out of a mare by Strephon, who was also 

 by Rubens. Kow his stoutness and soundness were too well 

 known to need further comment ; and his case alone is a strong 

 argument in favor of the breeding-in, a second time. 



Example 12. — Almost as strong a case has lately appeared 

 in the Knight of St. George, who was by Birdcatcher, son of 

 Sir Hercules, out of a granddaughter out of that horse, and 

 with a still further infusion of Waxy blood in her granddam. 

 These two last examples are the strongest modern instances of 

 close in-breeding with wdiich I am acquainted ; but as they were 

 neither of them quite first class, they do not so much strengthen 

 the argument as some of the previously instanced horses. Nev- 

 ertheless, being as close as they are, they show that the practice 

 is not attended by a bad result in these particular cases. 



Example 13. — ^The Saddler, who is remarkable for the stout- 

 ness, if not for the speed of his stock, is the produce of second 

 cousins, being descended on both sides of his pedigree from 



Example 14. — Chatham, as good a horse as ever ran, is by 

 the Colonel, son of Whisker, out of Hester, by Camel, son of 

 Whalebone, brother to Whisker ; and he is therefore the pro- 

 duce of first cousins. Both these horses — examples 13 and 14 — 

 unite the Waxy and Buzzard blood. 



Example 15. — Sweetmeat is valuable as a stallion, not only 

 because he is in-bred to Waxy, but because he also possesses 



