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back to the Darley Arabian had taken place, improve- 

 ment in both forvi and appearance was discernible. In 

 the line through PotSos, the blood was returned to, and 

 confirmed to a great extent in Waxy. And we have 

 seen that the Joe Andrews line, for the last six genera- 

 tions, has been bred in and in to the Darley Arabian 

 blood ; we saw also the advantages derived from the 

 system by such results as Rebecca, Alice Hawthorn, and 

 Little Wonder ; and quite recently by the uniting of the 

 lines from Waxy by the breeding from Stockwell and 

 Touchstone mares, or mares of Touchstone blood. It is 

 not from the fact of the mares being daughters or grand- 

 daughters of Touchstone that so good a result was ob- 

 tained, but that by such a union the blood of the Darley 

 Arabian was being made more use of, was being concen- 

 trated, and through good lines and individuals. 



Lord Lyon, so bred, running first in the Derby and 

 St. Leger to Savernake and Rustic, his half-brothers, 

 both being by Stockwell, but from mares who were not 

 bred from collateral lines from the Darley Arabian, is 

 an example of the good results of this system of breed- 

 ing, and it is seen to a still greater extent in Blue Gown 

 and Beadsman. Bribery, the dam of Savernake, was 

 by The Libel (son of Pantaloon) ; Village Lass, the dam 

 of Rustic, was by Pyrrhus the First, and although both 

 inherited strains of the Darley Arabian's blood on their 

 dams' side, they were not in-bred through collateral 

 lines. 



The line from Mercury can hardly be said to be repre- 

 sented now ; that from King Fergus principally by Vol- 



