14 The English Horse. 



sail to be of a shape peculiarly calculated to make a 

 superior brood mare. Pantaloon was the sire of The Libel, 

 foaled in 1842, a brown horse from a Camel mare. He 

 was the sire of the following also : — Elthiron, a very- 

 neat horse, foaled in 1846 ; Windhound, foaled in 1847 ; 

 Hernandez, in 1848 (winner of the Two Thousand 

 Guineas) ; Hobbie Noble, in 1849, quite a sensational 

 horse; The Reiver, in 1850; and Miserrima, a brown 

 filly, foaled in 1848. Elthiron, Windhound, Miserrima, 

 Hobbie Noble, and The Reiver, were all from one mare. 

 Lord Westminster's Phryne, by Touchstone. The three 

 former were brown, the two latter bay ; their Touchstone 

 dam may have influenced their colour. 



But to return to Windhound, in whom we are most 

 concerned, as the reputed and generally accepted sire of 

 Thormanby, winner of the Derby in i860, now at the 

 stud, with a chance of making himself a name, if he has 

 not already done so. The beautiful and celebrated 

 Alice Hawthorn, whose breeding will be commented 

 upon further on, was the dam of Thormanby. 



Presuming Thormanby to be the bond fide son of 

 Windhound, he must certainly be put down as the best 

 representative of the line at the present day, and the 

 honour of the family would appear to be confided to his 

 keeping. 



The blood of the Darley Arabian and of the Godol- 

 phin Arab was first introduced into the Turk's line in 

 Herod through the dam of Blaze, the latter the sire of 

 Cypron (Herod's dam). The dam of Blaze, the Con- 

 federate filly, was by Confederate, by Conductor, of the 



