50 The English Horse. 



may be devoted to Safeguard. His dam was by Selim 

 from Euryone, who was by Witchcraft from Fair Ellen 

 (the dam of Lilias, winner of the Oaks). Fair Ellen was 

 by a horse styled The Wellesley Grey Arab, out of Maria, 

 by Highflyer. Owing to his blindness, and perhaps also 

 to the prejudice against the infusion of Eastern blood 

 he had derived from his great-granddam, Fair Ellen, 

 daughter of The Wellesley Grey Arab, notwithstanding 

 she was the dam of an Oaks winner, Safeguard was not 

 much patronised by first-class mares, and from the same 

 source, the more recent infusion of Eastern blood, may 

 be attributed his other unexceptionable qualities, won- 

 derful constitution, and the extraordinary goodness of 

 his feet and legs. There may not be any of his mares 

 left now, but some of his granddaughters might make 

 a great hit with Gladiateur if any one would venture the 

 attempt 



The Wellesley Arab was an Eastern horse, but the 

 Stud Book says evidently he was not an Arabian. It 

 would be interesting to know from whence he was ob- 

 tained and his antecedents before he was brought to 

 this country. 



Sir Hercules was a handsome black horse, foaled in 

 1826 ; in the autumn of the year I have heard he might 

 have been called almost grey, from some grey hairs 

 either becoming more numerous or more visible. He 

 heads a very distinguished branch of the Whalebone 

 family. He ran third for the St. Leger in 1829, Rowton 

 and Voltaire having been first and second. His dam 

 was Peri, by Wanderer, her dam Thalestris, a black 



