28 'The American Thoroughbred 



none, one of the best of which was Saltram, afterwards imported to America. Before 

 leaving England, however, Saltram got Whiskey out of Calash by Herod, she being the 

 dam of Paragon who won the St. Leger of 1786; and Whiskey was about the best stal- 

 lion of that day. He got Eleanor, winner of the Derby and Oaks of 1801, who also 

 beat the great Orville three times at cup distances ; and he was also the sire of Pelisse, 

 winner of the Oaks, and other capital performers. Among the great broodmares got- 

 ten by Whiskey were those two great sisters, Julia, dam of Phantom, who won the 

 Derby in 1811 and ran second to Soothsayer in the St. Leger; and Cressida, dam of 

 Priam, who not only won the Derby of 1830 in a common canter but also won the 

 Goodwood cup at 4 years with 128 pounds and at 5 with 139 pounds without being ex- 

 tended. Young Eclipse, also a Derby winner, figures in some good pedigrees but died 

 too young to achieve any marked success. Of Eclipse's sons that were the sires of 

 classical winners, we may mention Alexander and his full brother, Don Quixote ; King 

 Fergus, sire of two St. Leger winners ; Mercury and Meteor, both sires of Oaks win- 

 ners ; . Volunteer, who got a winner each of the Derby and Oaks ; and last but not the 

 least Pot-8-os, who got two Derby winners in Champion and Waxy, the former being 

 the better race horse and the latter the greater sire, by long odds. Other good sires by 

 Eclipse were Boudrow, Joe Andrews, Dungannon, Jupiter, Hermes, Javelin, Soldier 

 and Zodiac; and he got the dams of Bobtail (Chanticleer), Haphazard, John Bull (Derby 

 winner), Master Bagot, Phenomenon (St. Leger), Oberon, Skyscraper, Scotilla, Stam- 

 ford, Archduke and other great notables. Of all of Eclipse's great and 

 worthy sons, both on the turf and in the stud, there are now extant only the male lines 

 of Pot-8-os, King Fergus and Joe Andrews, all others having "gone a-glimmerin' thro' 

 the gloom." Joe Andrews was nothing great himself but he got Dick Andrews, and 

 Dick got the Oaks winner Manuella and her full sister Altisdora, who won the St. Leger 

 in the very next year, as well as Cwrw, who won the Two Thousand, but the greatest of 

 all of Dick Andrews' get was the stout little bay horse Tramp who won the Doncaster 

 cup of 1814, when it was a far more important race than now, he being the first three- 

 year-old to carry off that event. The distance of the Doncaster cup was then four 

 miles, since reduced to three, then to two and a half, then to two and. a quarter, and 

 now it is just two miles. Tramp got Dangerous and St. Giles, winners of the Derby; 

 Barefoot, who won the St. Leger and was imported to America ; Tarantella and Char- 

 lotte West, winners of the One Thousand Guineas ; Zinganee, who won the Ascot cup 

 and was also imported to America ; and the great Lottery who won the Doncaster Cup 

 of 1825, beating two previous winners of the Derby. 



King Fergus got two winners of the St. Leger, Beningbrough in 1794 and Hamble- 

 tonian in the year following. Below is given the most prominent of the get of these 

 two sires. 



BENINGBROUGH t HAMBLETONIAN tVoltigeur *t 



1791 1792 Vedette D 



Orville Lady Evelyn Whitelock Galopin* 



Octavius * Miss Letty Blacklock Donovan *t 



Little John Crucifix W Laurel D Galeotia 



Frederick* Surplice Flight mare Disreali 



Emilius * Cowl Rhedycina St. Simon AG 



Priam Beadsman Governess Diamond Jubilee *t 



Plenipo Mango Brutandorf C Persimmon 



Poison Het. Platoff N Florizel II 



Industry Cossack* St. Frusquin 



Voltaire D and 5 Oaks winners. 



* Won the Derby; t won the St. Le^er; A won the Ascot Cup; D won the Doncaster; G won 

 the Goodwood; Q won the Queen's Vaseat Ascot; CS won the City and Suburban; J won the 

 Jockey Club Cup; N won the New Stakes, Ascot; CM won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes, 



