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Melbourne's son, West Australian, has given Bonny- 

 field, Joskin, and Solon ; and Young Melbourne, Rapid 

 Rhone and General Peel. It is noteworthy how very 

 few winners, comparatively speaking, of great events 

 have been given by this third source from whence 

 our racehorse has sprung ; and, again, those horses, 

 with the exception of Soothsayer and Smolensko, 

 who have been winners themselves of one of the 

 great events, have not begotten winners of such races. 

 Jerry, Rockingham, Sir Tatton Sykes, and West Aus- 

 tralian, winners of the Derby or St. Leger, have not 

 produced winners of those events. In the cases of 

 Soothsayer and Smolensko, as has been shown, they 

 had several strains of the Darley Arabian blood, parti- 

 cularly the former horse, but none very direct ; for in- 

 stance, their dams were not themselves descendants, on 

 the male side, from the Darley Arabian, but most of the 

 winners have been bred on their dams' sides direct to 

 the Darley Arab. Thus the dam of Tiresias, winner of 

 the Derby, 1819, was a daughter of Waxy; her grand- 

 dam Promise by Snap, with another strain through the 

 Little Hartley mare. Jerry's dam was a daughter of 

 Orville, in direct descent to the Darley Arabian through 

 King Fergus, besides other strains. The dam of Revel- 

 ler, winner of the St. Leger, 18 19, was a daughter of 

 Beningbrough, also a direct descendant of the Darley 

 Arabian through King Fergus. The dam of Matilda 

 (winner of the St. Leger, 1827), Juliana, formerly Lady 

 Thigh, was a daughter of Gohanna ; and her dam, 

 Platina, was a daughter of Mercury (sire of Gohanna) 



