68 The Ens'lish Horse. 



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Vauxhall Snap mare, by Vauxhall Snap, whose sire 

 Snap was great-grandson of the Darley Arabian. The 

 dam of Miss Hap was sister to Haphazard, who was by 

 Sir Peter, from an Ech'pse mare, and Sir Peter's dam 

 was Papillon, by Snap. Anvil has two strains of the 

 Darley Arabian, besides those through the dam of his 

 sire Herod, and both through P'lying Childers. Again, 

 the dam of Castrel (sire of Bustard and grandsire of 

 Kite) was the Alexander mare, whose sire was by 

 Eclipse. On the whole, Beadsman is certainly a blood- 

 like looking horse, and had fine action. He is the sire 

 of Blue Gown and Pero Gomez. 



Blue Gown (son of Beadsman and Bas Bleu), winner of 

 the Derby, 1868, is a bay horse. Perhaps not particularly 

 taking in his slower paces, but a fine mover when at 

 speed, he must be considered as a remarkably well- 

 bred horse. We have seen that his progenitors for 

 five generations were bred back to the Darley Arabian 

 by several collateral lines in male descent. Thus 

 Beadsman sprang from a union of the Joe Andrews 

 and Waxy lines ; his sire Weatherbit from a com- 

 bination of the blood from Joe Andrews and King 

 Fergus, his grandsire Sheet Anchor also from the Joe 

 Andrews and King Fergus lines ; his great-grandsire 

 Lottery from a union of the lines from Joe Andrews and 

 Waxy ; and in some instances the dams of several of 

 these horses were themselves bred on both sides of their 

 pedigree from collateral and identical lines from the 

 Darley Arabian. For instance, Miss Letty, the dam of 

 Weatherbit, was the offspring of a horse and mare in 



