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like head and eye and blood-like appearance generally, 

 with a strong back, and very powerful quarters, which 

 reached well forward into his middle piece, nor did he 

 seem to me to be deficient in length ; he looked as if a 

 great stud career was before him, but his success was 

 not very great, and his fame will rest on his own Turf 

 performances only, I am afraid. 



Orlando was also the sire of Marsyas, a finely-bred 

 horse, his dam was Malibran by Whisker, and of Cheva- 

 lier d'Industrie, whose dam was Industry (winner of the 

 Oaks), by Priam. Teddington's dam was Miss Twicken- 

 ham, by Rockingham, her dam Electress, by Election, 

 son of Gohanna. 



Newminster, a son of Touchstone and the celebrated 

 Beeswing, being a delicate horse, was difficult to train, 

 and ran, I believe, quite big for the St. Leger, which he 

 won in 185 i. He was a dark bay horse, without white. 

 The young Newminsters have been chestnut, bay, brown, 

 and grey, some large and some small. His dam. Bees- 

 wing, was by the evergreen Doctor Syntax, son of Pay- 

 nator, grandson of Conductor ; Doctor Syntax's dam was 

 by Beningbrough, grandson of Eclipse ; Beeswing's dam 

 was by Ardrossan, by John Bull, son of Fortitude, who 

 was by Herod, from a Snap mare. His son Musjid won 

 the Derby in 1859, and Hermit in \%6y, whose dam is 

 Seclusion by Tadmor. His son. Lord Clifden, won the 

 St. Leger in 1863, his dam The Slave, by Melbourne, 

 her dam Volley, by Voltaire, from Martha Lynn, by 

 Mulatto. Then there are his sons, Newcastle, Strath- 



