Gohanna. 6 1 



considered a horse with two good ends, but deficient in 

 middle piece ; but I thought him a fine horse when he 

 ran with Tim Whiftier for the Ascot Cup, which he won 

 after a dead heat. It was a sight worth seeing in these 

 days. He was sent out to China in 1863, and died 

 there. 



Voltigeur's memory and Hkeness will probably be 

 preserved, as Sir Edwin Landseer has depicted him on 

 canvas with his cat almost, if not quite, as large as life. 



This must suffice for the King Fergus family, and we 

 will get back to the year 1778, when the chestnut 

 horse. Mercury, son of Eclipse, was foaled ; his dam was 

 by Tartar, great-grandson of the Byerly Turk, her dam 

 by Mogul, son of the Godolphin Arab or Barb, without 

 any return to the Darley Arabian. He was the sire of 

 Gohanna, a bay horse, foaled in 1790; his dam was a 

 Herod mare, her dam, Maiden Sister to Pumpkin, by 

 Matchem, from a mare by Squirt, her dam by Mogul 

 out of Camilla, by Bay Bolton from Old Lady, by 

 Pulleine's chestnut Arabian from a mare by Rockwood 

 from a mare by Bustler, There are strains here of the 

 Darley Arabian, through his dam by Herod and through 

 Pumpkin's dam, but there are many strains containing 

 other than Eastern blood. He was the sire of Golumpus, 

 a bay horse, foaled in 1802 ; his dam, Catherine, by 

 Woodpecker, her dam, Camilla, by Trentham. This 

 latter horse was by Sweepstakes from Miss South, her 

 dam by Cartouch out of Ebony, by Flying Childers. 

 Woodpecker and Ebony gave him some of the Darley 

 Arabian blood, but there is much of the Godolphin 



