6o The English Horse. 



brown mare, winner of the Oaks and St. Leger in 1835. 

 She had great speed, like her sire, and like him I should 

 say doubtful legs; her dam was Princess Royal, by 

 Castrel. Blacklock was also the sire of Brutandorf, sire 

 of Hetman Platofif, the sire of Cossack, winner of the 

 Derby in 1847. Brutandorfs dam was Mandane, by 

 Pot8os. Cossack, a chestnut horse, was from a Priam 

 mare. Voltaire, by Blacklock, was a brown horse, foaled 

 in 1826, and his descendants are mostly dark brown or 

 black ; his dam was a Phantom mare, and traces back to 

 Matchem ; he was the sire of Charles XII., who won the 

 St. Leger after a dead heat with Euclid, a son of Emilius, 

 and also the sire of Voltigeur, winner of the Derby and 

 St, Leger in 1850 ; the latter race was won after a dead 

 heat with Russborough ; he also won the Doncaster 

 Cup the same week, defeating the, up to that time, 

 unconquered Flying Dutchman, but he was subsequently 

 defeated by The Dutchman in a two-mile match at York. 

 His dam was Martha Lynn, by Mulatto, son of Catton 

 out of the Mercury line from Eclipse. Mulatto's dam 

 was by Orville ; there is considerable breeding back 

 to Eclipse in his pedigree. From among many others, 

 Voltigeur was the sire of Vedette, Skirmisher, and 

 Sabreur ; but, to my mind, Buckstone was his best son, 

 a bay or brown horse, foaled in France in 1859; his 

 dam was Burlesque by Touchstone, her dam. Maid of 

 Honour, by Champion out of Etiquette, by Orville, 

 which gives more breeding back to Eclipse. He ran 

 third to Caractacus for the Derby in 1862, and second 

 to The Marquis for The St. Leger. He was generally 



