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for great speed ; one line generally being distinguished 

 by bays, the other by chestnuts, and both of them 

 being celebrated for the excellences of their mares. 

 My own ideas, derived from studying the pedigrees of 

 the various horses of this line, I am tempted to give, 

 not that I would wish to thrust them upon others, 

 but to be taken for what they may be worth, and also 

 as a reply to any cui bono, which may be asked, for all 

 these particulars about horses dead and gone, and many 

 quite forgotten. 



First, I must state my conviction is this : The real 

 worth of the family is owing to the blood of the Darley 

 Arabian, first brought into the line in Herod, and it is 

 owing to the frequent and very strong infusions of that 

 blood which have taken place that the line has been so 

 widely spread and so long handed down, and at times 

 had such splendid representatives. I cannot offer, of 

 course, actual proofs, but there are not wanting, to my 

 mind, certain indications, kind of sign posts to the 

 traveller through the mazes of breeding, of which I have 

 availed myself, and which may not have been noticed by 

 many. Partner, the paternal grandsire of Herod, was a 

 bright chestnut ; Herod a bay horse. He inherited 

 much of the Darley Arabian blood through his dam 

 Cypron, who was bay. Her sire, Blaze, was bay, as was 

 his sire, Flying Childers, as also was his sire, the Darley 

 Arabian, and ability to run long distances was his forte. 

 I think it will be observed by those who may have the 

 patience to read these papers that as a rule when the 

 Darley Arabian blood has been more prominent, and 



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