CHAPTER V 



HE, SKY-ROCKET, AND TRECLARE 

 HE 



Among the good horses Lord Glanely has owned, He, 

 the son of Santoi and She, ranks high, and here we 

 obtain a strain of remarkably stout blood, for Santoi 

 was by Queen's Birthday — Merry Wife, Queen's 

 Birthday by Hagioscope — Matilda, who goes back to 

 King Tom. The blood in question may not be 

 absolutely the bluest, for Queen's Birthday came short 

 of classic form and the sturdy Hagioscope would have 

 been rated as a superior handicap horse, but on the 

 dam's side equine aristocracy is powerfully repre- 

 sented, for She is a daughter of Cyllene, her dam 

 Witty Girl by St. Simon — Bettywise by Wisdom, the 

 last named another horse resembling Tredennis in 

 the circumstance that his reputation was made at the 

 stud. Merry Wife again was by Merry Hampton, 

 a Derby winner, out of a mare by Pero Gomez, winner 

 of the Leger. 



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