20 The English Horse. 



of Andover (winner of the Derby in 1854), whose dam 

 was a Defence mare, of Hermit (winner of the Two 

 Thousand Guineas, 1854), from Jenny Lind, by Touch- 

 stone. 



Andover was a very nice horse, but The Flying 

 Dutchman was the most distinguished of Bay Middle- 

 ton's sons, and won all his two-year-old engagements 

 without having been fairly extended — the Derby and 

 St. Leger, as before said, and the Emperor's Plate at 

 Ascot. The only time he was beaten was for the 

 Doncaster Cup, by Voltigeur, in 1850, when perhaps 

 he was not thoroughly prepared. Upon his defeat a 

 match of 1,000/. a side was made between him and 

 Voltigeur, by the Earls of Eglinton and Zetland, the 

 former giving the latter the choice of ground. It was 

 over two miles of ground, and run at York, 1 3th May, 

 185 1, the Dutchman defeating Voltigeur by a length. 

 The time was accurately'taken — 3 minutes 55 seconds. 

 He was a fine-looking horse, dark brown, without white, 

 with springy action, which he generally transmitted to 

 his stock, and inherited from his dam, Barbelle, by 

 Sandbeck, her dam Darioletta, by Amadts. He might 

 be distinguished among a crowd of horses by his grand 

 appearance, and was remarkable for the size of his 

 arms, as was also his sire. Bay Middleton, and this 

 point is also transmitted, as a rule, to his stock. He 

 was the sire of Ellington (winner of the Derby in 1856), 

 of Gildermire, who ran a dead heat for the Oaks of 

 1858, and of Brown Duchess (winner of the Oaks, 1861). 

 Brown Duchess ran a dead heat with Kettledrum for 



