Venison. 29 



celebrated as being the dam of Blink Bonny, also the 

 dam of Haricot, the dam of Caller Ou. 



Venison was a bay horse with a white reach and both 

 hind fetlocks white. He was a very honest, game horse, 

 and although he had not the speed of Bay Middleton 

 he picked up a good many things for his owner between 

 Epsom and Doncaster, and always travelled on foot. 

 He defeated Miindig, the winner of the Derby, 1835, for 

 the King's Plate at Doncaster (four miles), winning in a 

 canter by three or four lengths. Venison's dam, Fawn, 

 had the reputation of being a great jade, and was by 

 Smolensko ; her dam. Jerboa, was by Gohanna (grandson 

 of Eclipse) out of Camilla, by Trentham. He was the 

 sire of many winners of more or less note. His son, 

 The Ugly Buck, won the Two Thousand Guineas in 

 1844. Clementina, his daughter, won the One Thousand 

 Guineas in 1847, and his daughter, Miami, the Oaks the 

 same year. Then there were Red Deer and Red Hart, 

 own brothers, and the handsome Vatican and Cruiser, 

 who was tamed by Rarey, Fallow Buck, Filius, and many 

 others, among which was Chamois, the winner of the 

 first Metropolitan Stakes at Epsom. Venison was the 

 sire of Alarm, foaled in 1842, whose dam. Southdown, 

 was by Defence, a grandson of Waxy. Alarm, a bay 

 horse with a blaze, won the Cambridgeshire in 1845, and 

 the Emperor's Plate at Ascot, 1846. I am afraid as a 

 stud horse, as in the case of Pyrrhus the First, those who 

 expected much were doomed to disappointment, and for 

 similar reasons, although his blood, through his daughters, 

 must be useful. It must not be forgotten that he was 



