270 THE HORSE. 



SO much of the celebrated PniDclla blood, he being descended 

 from tiiat mare through three several lines — viz., through JPara- 

 sol, Moses, and Wa.xy Pope. 



Example 16. — Grace Darling — dam of the Hero, b}- Chester- 

 field — was the produce of second cousins, both sire and dam 

 being descended from Waxy, It is, therefore, not to be won- 

 dered at that she produced so stout a horse as the Hero, com- 

 bining the Waxy, Priam, Octavian, and Rubens blood. His sire 

 and dam were also third cousins through Coelia as well. 



Example lY. — Wild Dayrell, speedy as he is, may trace his 

 wonderful powers to a reunion of the blood of Yelocipede, 

 which exists on the side of both sire and dam, and also to his 

 descent from Selim and Rubens, own brothers, who are respec- 

 tively his paternal and maternal great-grandsires. 



Example 18. — Cowl, by Bay Middleton, out of Crucifix, is 

 the result of the union of second cousins, the sire being de- 

 scended from Julia, and the dam from Cressida, both of them 

 sisters to the celebrated mare, Eleanor, the winner of the Derby 

 and Oaks. There is also another cross of Whiskey blood from 

 Emilius, so that Cowl is in-bred to Whiskey twice. It would 

 be a curious experiment to put him to some descendant of Mu- 

 ley — such as Alice Hawthorn or Virginia, and thus unite the 

 three sisters in one, making a third infusion of this blood with 

 an intervening out-cross. It should be borne in mind that Young 

 Giantess, the ancestress of all these mares, and also of Sorcerer, 

 was the produce of second cousins, and each of these second 

 cousins was also the produce of second cousins, both of their 

 sires and dams having Godolphin as their great-grandsire. 



The following brood mares may be attentively examined, 

 and their produce by near relations compared with that by 

 horses only distantly connected, which I have shown all horses 

 are in the present day. This is a still stronger proof of the 

 advantage of in-breeding, than the success of solitary horses as 

 runners. 



Example 1. — One of the most successful brood mares of 

 late years was Decoy, who bred a long list of race-horses to 

 Touchstone and Pantaloon ; now the former of these horses was 

 much more successful generally in getting racing stock, than the 

 latter, and yet in this instance was beaten by him, as proved by 



