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the Doncaster Cup, but the latter walked over for it 

 afterwards. His son Ellington has not achieved any- 

 great stud success, and there is no worthy representative 

 of Bay Middleton and Sultan, The Bay Middleton 

 stock have been pronounced as invariably blood-like 

 in their appearance. I do not hold with this. Many 

 of them had a certain elegance about them, and some 

 were grand-looking, with fine points ; but to be blood- 

 like a horse ought to have the symmetry and beauty- 

 approaching to the Arabian, from which source the 

 blood was derived, and the term blood-like had its 

 origin. As an example of the Bay Middleton family, 

 I think Himalaya, in Her Majesty's stud, would convey 

 a very just idea, presenting all the grand points, with 

 some of the deficiencies. 



We must now consider Rubens, the third son of 

 Buzzard, a chestnut, foaled in 1805, ^rid own brother to 

 Castrel and Selim, as stated before. He is more dis- 

 tinguished for his daughters. He was the sire of Land- 

 scape, winner of the Oaks, 18 16; of Pastille, winner of 

 the Two Thousand Guineas and the Oaks, 1822 (Pas- 

 tille's dam was Parasol, by PotSos, son of Eclipse) ; and 

 of Whizgig, winner of the One Thousand Guineas the 

 same year. The Two Thousand Guineas, the One 

 Thousand Guineas, and the Oaks having been won 

 by two of his fillies in one year, was certainly a feather 

 in the cap of Rubens. Whizgig was also the dam of 

 Oxygen, winner of the Oaks in 183 1. Rubens was also 

 the sire of the dam of Lord Berner's Phosphorus (winner 

 of the Derby, 1837) and of May Day, own sister of 



