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1833), was by Tramp out of Defiance, by Rubens ; 

 here is breeding back to the same mare — Defiance was 

 the dam of Defence, sire of The Emperor. Tramp, the 

 sire of The Emperor's maternal granddam, Design, was 

 the great-grandson of EcHpse, as Defence was great- 

 great-grandson of EcHpse. Moreover, the dam of Ru- 

 bens (sire of Defiance), as has been shown before, was 

 by Alexander, a son of Eclipse ; so that there is much 

 in-breeding to the Darley Arabian through Eclipse ; but 

 the pedigree of Defiance, paternal grandmother and 

 maternal great-grandmother of The Emperor, goes back 

 to Magnolia, by Marske, great-grandson of the Darley 

 Arabian ; and her great-granddam was Ebony, a 

 daughter of Flying Childers, son of the Darley Ara- 

 bian. This pedigree may be a little tedious and intri- 

 cate, but it will show how that The Emperor, a great- 

 grandson in male descent of Waxy, traced' back to the 

 Darley Arabian through most, if not all, of the female 

 descents. Defence was the sire of Safeguard, foaled in 

 1841, of Grace Darling (the dam of Hero), and of Sister 

 to -^gis, the dam of Andover, winner of the Derby, 



1854. 



I presume The Emperor was but lightly esteemed in 

 this country, and therefore allowed to go to France, 

 where he, as many others have, turned out a trump-card. 

 He is the accepted grandsire of Gladiateur, whose dam 

 was Miss Gladiator, a daughter of Gladiator by Parti- 

 san, another of the expatriated horses. Miss Gladia- 

 tor's dam was Taffrail, by Sheet Anchor, Taffi'ail's dam 

 The Warwick mare, by Merman (son of Whalebone), 



