58 TJic English Ho7'se. 



Oaks ; her dam Octaviana, by Octavian, her dam by 

 Shuttle out of Zara, by Delpini from Flora, by King 

 Fergus. Her pedigree goes back to the Darley Arabian, 

 through Shuttle, who was by Young Marske (son of 

 Marske, great-grandson of the Darley Arabian, and 

 through his dam the Vauxhall Snap mare). Vauxhall 

 Snap was by Snap, grandson of Flying Childers, and 

 again through King Fergus, the head of the line from 

 Eclipse we are now reviewing. Crucifix was the dam of 

 Cowl, by Bay Middleton, Crozier by Lanercost, and 

 Surplice by Touchstone. 



Plenipotentiary, winner of the Derby in 1834, was a 

 rich chestnut horse, a little over 1 5 hands 2 inches ; he 

 was a large horse, of great muscular development, and 

 carried plenty of flesh ; he won the Derby without the 

 shadow of a struggle, and was considered one of the 

 most magnificent horses ever seen on a racecourse. 

 Poison, a filly of his, won the Oaks in 1843. As a sire 

 he does not appear to have answered the expectations 

 that his appearance might have warranted. In his pedi- 

 gree the blood of the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian, 

 and of the Godolphin Arab or Barb would appear to 

 have been pretty equally distributed. 



We now return to Hambletonian, winner of the St. 

 Leger in 1795, a bay horse, his dam a Highfiyer mare, 

 her dam Monimia, by Matchem, &c. With the excep- 

 tion of the strains through Highflyer, we find no further 

 return to the Darley Arabian ; he was the sire of White- 

 lock, a bay horse from Rosalind, got by Phoenomenon, 

 her dam Atalanta, by Matchem, with no other strain 



