32 The English Hor'se. 



selected as the only horse good enoitgh for Ellen Middle- 

 ton, and became the sire of Wild Dayrell, or it is likely 

 nothing more might have been heard of him. 



Wild Dayrell, a brown horse, foaled in 1852 (his dam, 

 Ellen Middleton, by Bay Middleton from Myrrha, by 

 Malek), winner of the Derby in 1855, was the sire of 

 Hurricane, winner of the One Thousand Guineas in 

 1862 ; but his stud fame is owing principally to his having 

 been the sire of Buccaneer, from a Little Red Rover 

 mare, the dam of Cruiser. Buccaneer is lost to this 

 country ; he was foaled in 1857. He has made himself 

 a name through his daughters Formosa and Brigantine. 

 With this exception, I know of no other worthy scion of 

 the line from Sir Peter. 



We have now come to the end of the Byerly Turk's 

 line, having traced it through several branches to the 

 present day ; and we find the following to be the 

 principal representatives : — Buccaneer abroad ; Macaroni, 

 Parmesan, and Carnival ; Caractacus, Ely, and King 

 John ; Ellington, Dollar, and Thormanby. 



Certain memoranda have been mentioned from time 

 to time to arrest the attention of the reader, and to serve 

 as data for him to form his own opinions and come to 

 his own conclusions. The similarity of breeding between 

 Woodpecker and Highflyer was noticed with a special 

 reference to some strains of blood in Woodpecker's 

 pedigree. As a rule the descendants from Herod, 

 through Highflyer and Sir Peter, have been distin- 

 guished more for stoutness ; those generally from Wood- 

 pecker, although with some notable exceptions, rather 



