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there is no saying what the Hving may come to) 

 during Queen Victoria's reign, two are noticeable 

 beyond all the rest, Stockwell and Hermit. It 

 has been calculated, though the calculations are 

 somewhat shaky, that the former (whose stud-fee 

 could not be maintained at the 200 guineas which 

 it reached for awhile) sired, during his fourteen 

 years at the stud (from 1856 to May, 1870), 

 428 winners (reduced, by allowance for repetitions 

 of the same winner, to 228), in England, of 1,148 

 races, worth about ^353,741 ; and the latter 

 (whose stud-fee rose to 250 guineas in 1886 and 

 so remained to his death) sired (during twenty 

 years, from 1870 to April, 1890) an unrecorded 

 number of winners, whose aggregate winnings in 

 England amounted to ^315,968. 



It may be interesting, for the sake of a rough 

 comparison between old and new times, to append 

 some calculations of a similar kind (to be accepted 

 with similar caution) made by men of old time, as 

 regards the sums won by the progeny of dis- 

 tinguished sires in former days, when there were 

 no ' monster ' stakes, when the Derby and the 

 Oaks and the St. Leger were of comparatively 

 small value, and when most money was to be 



