■Q The Ens^lish Horse. 



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Pero Gomez, by Beadsman, ran second to Pretender 

 for the Derby, 1869, and carried off the St. Leger ; his 

 dam Salamanca was by Student ; her dam Bravery, by 

 Gameboy out of Ennui, by Bay Middleton. This horse 

 is to a certain extent similarly bred to his half-brother 

 Blue Gown, but the breeding is not so perfect, the breed- 

 ing back not so continuous ; and although he pos- 

 sessed through his dam several strains of the Darley 

 Arabian blood, the pedigree is, as it were, more broken 

 up Student, the sire of Salamanca, is descended from 

 Waxy through Chatham and The Colonel, and Student's 

 dam, the Laurel mare, was from Plight by Velocipede 

 (son of Blacklock), and Laurel was by Blacklock out of 

 a mare by Prime Minister (son of Sancho, grandson of 

 Eclipse) out of an Orville mare. It must have been 

 most gratifying to the owner of Beadsm.an to have bred 

 and possessed in two successive years two such horses as 

 Blue Gown and Pero Gomez. I consider the former as 

 far superior, and likely to be the better horse at the 

 stud ; and, as is not unusual, the more valuable blood 

 has gone abroad, perhaps to be repurchased at some 

 future time for this country ; but such opportunities can- 

 not always be counted upon. 



We have now considered the descendants of the four 

 sons of Eclipse, who have been principally concerned in 

 handing down the blood of the Darley Arabian. In the 

 earlier stages there was very little breeding back to the 

 founder of the line, and the horses would appear, in most 

 instances, to have possessed very considerable coarseness 

 in appearance ; but as soon as any amount of breeding 



