CHAPTER IV 



GRAND PARADE 



Names famous in Turf history appear as a matter of 

 course in the pedigrees of all the thoroughbred horses 

 of the day. But those from whom Grand Parade has 

 descended strike one as peculiarly attractive and 

 fascinating. Grand Parade was a son of Orby and 

 Grand Geraldine, Orby by Orme out of Rhoda B., a 

 mare bred in the United States of America in 1895 

 and imported in 1896, a daughter of Hanover, one of 

 the best horses in the annals of trans-Atlantic sport. 

 Of her it will suffice to add that she throws back to 

 Doncaster on the dam's side ; for her dam Margerine 

 was by Algerine out of Sweet Songstress, who was by 

 the Derby winner of 1873. We will run hastily 

 through the descent of Grand Parade and come 

 presently to details of his ancestors. Orme, the 

 grandsire of Grand Parade, was a son of Ormonde 

 and Angelica, the dam by Galopin out of St. 

 Angela by King Tom. Ormonde was by Bend Or 

 out of Lily Agnes by Macaroni, her dam Polly 

 Agnes by The Cure. Bend Or was by Doncaster, 



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