HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



account, but dam of Haricot, Braxey, Balrownie, 

 Blooming Heather, Bonnie Scotland, Broomielaw, 

 Bertie, and Blinkhoolie, never saying die until 

 1872, when she was twenty-nine years of age), 

 the short-lived Blink Bonny (died in 1862, the 

 dam of Borealis, Blair Athol, and Breadalbane), 

 Paradigm (shot in 1872, at twenty years of age, 

 the dam of Lord Lyon and Achievement), Marie 

 Stuart, Shotover, St. Marguerite (dam of Sea 

 Breeze, and of the ill-starred Riviera), etc. 



Of these mares, the most popular, in point of 

 remembrance, is probably Blink Bonny, as the only 

 mare, besides Eleanor in 1801, that ever won both 

 Derby and Oaks (for Shotover did not win the 

 Oaks in 18S2), and it is, therefore, all the more 

 noteworthy that probably she owes her double 

 success to the fact that Vedette (winner of the 

 Two Thousand in 1857, and afterwards sire of 

 the magnificent Galopin, popularly pronounced 

 ' Gallop-in,' as indeed he invariably did with a 

 vengeance) could not run for the Derby any more 

 than for the St. Leger, else both she and Impe- 

 rieuse, winner of the latter in that year, almost 

 certainly would have had their glory diminished. 



Among the great sires that have died (for 



