Beadsman. 67 



considerable in-breeding to the Darley Arabian. The 

 sire and dam of Weatherbit's sire, and the sire and dam 

 of Miss Letty, his dam, are all descendants in male 

 descent of sons of Eclipse. The coarseness that existed 

 in many of his progenitors in the male line was npt seen 

 in him. Even when old and infirm he was a very good- 

 looking horse, with a level top and high quarters, good 

 hocks, and well-shaped and well-placed hind legs. He 

 has left several sons. From among them, Bel Demonio, 

 from a Birdcatcher mare ; Bismark, also from a Bird- 

 catcher mare ; Brown Bread, from a West Australian 

 mare ; Jupiter, from Athena Pallas ; Mandrake, from a 

 mare by Rataplan. And he was also the sire of Beads- 

 man, whose name would have been more properly writ- 

 ten Bedesman. 



Beadsman,* winner of the Derby, 1858, is a brown 

 horse ; his dam Mendicant (winner of the Oaks, 1 846), 

 by Touchstone ; her dam Lady Moore Carew, by Tramp 

 out of Kite, by Bustard (son of Castrel), her dam 

 Olympia, by Sir Oliver (son of Sir Peter) out of Scotilla, 

 by Anvil, from Scota, a daughter of Eclipse. Through 

 his dam. Beadsman is in-bred to his paternal ancestor 

 Tramp, and there is very much breeding back to the 

 Darley Arabian on both sides of his pedigree, and 

 although there are several strains of the blood of the 

 Byerly Turk's line, yet they also contain much of the 

 Darley Arabian blood. Bustard's dam, Miss Hap, was 

 by Shuttle, by Young Marske (whose sire Marske was 

 great-grandson of the Darley Arabian), out of the 



' Since dead. 

 F 2 



